WATCH: Hannah Kaminer, “Heavy on the Vine”

Artist: Hannah Kaminer
Hometown: Asheville, North Carolina (technically Black Mountain, North Carolina)
Song: “Heavy on the Vine”
Album: Heavy on the Vine
Release Date: November 17, 2023 (single); January 5, 2024 (album)

In Their Words: “Over the last few years I started gardening and going to the community garden to learn whatever I could. One day in late summer I showed up and the gardener in charge told me we had to take out all the tomatoes and summer plants. I was stunned because all of those plants were still going strong, in full bloom. She gently let me know that it was time: If we did not take the summer plants out, there would be no fall planting and no fall harvest. Pulling the tomatoes out was a spiritual experience – letting go of one thing so another could grow – but it’s a lot harder when it’s not just tomatoes that you have to let go of. This song is about those moments when your vision narrows and you realize that only a few things in life are actually important, and you find yourself bargaining with the universe for the one thing you want but can’t have.” – Hannah Kaminer

Track Credits: Hannah Kaminer – vocals, guitar
Kevin Williams – keys
Ross Montsinger – drums
Melissa Hyman – bass, harmony vocals
Jackson Dulaney – pedal steel


Photo Credit: John Dupre
Video Credits: Produced by Old Home Place Recordings
Director – Aaron Stone
Audio Engineer – Mike Johnson
Photography – John Dupre
Executive Producers – Tim & Susan Griffin

3×3: RL Boyce on Fred McDowell, Feather Pillows, and Fruits as Vegetables

Artist: RL Boyce
Hometown: Como, Mississippi
Latest Album: Roll and Tumble
Personal Nicknames: No. Nobody done called me nothing but R.L. except my children, they calls me daddy, and my grandchildren, they calls me granddaddy.

What’s the best concert you’ve ever attended?

Either watching Mississippi Fred McDowell (we called him “Shake ‘Em Down” ) or Rural (RL) Burnside.

How many unread emails or texts currently fill your inbox?

You gots to send those things to my daughter’s phone and she can show ’em to me.

How many pillows do you sleep with?

Just the one. It’s a feather pillow.

How many pairs of shoes do you own?

Right now, three. I got a pair of loafers, a pair of dress shoes, and a pair of house slippers.

If you were going to buy a famous musician’s pair of dirty socks off of eBay, whose would you buy?

I don’t know eBay. Who is she?

What’s your favorite vegetable?

That would be tomatoes. Somebody told me they was a fruit, but I call ’em a vegatable.

Fate or free will?

I believe a man’s gonna do what a man’s gonna do.

Sweet or sour?

Don’t reckon I like neither. I like my food natural tastin’.

Sunrise or sunset?

Sunset. That’s when the party starts.