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WATCH: Taylor Ashton ft. Rachael Price, “Time After Time” (Cyndi Lauper Cover)

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Artist: Taylor Ashton ft. Rachael Price
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York (by way of Vancouver, Canada)
Song: “Time After Time”
Album: Pizza Tickets
Release Date: March 24, 2023
Label: Signature Sounds

In Their Words: “Rachael and I mostly keep our musical lives separate, but we’ve been asked to sing at a few friends’ weddings and ‘Time After Time’ is a song we love to sing in that context. I love the pining chorus contrasted with the cinematic dream logic of the verses of this song, I feel like I could live an entire lifetime just inside the phrase ‘suitcase of memories.’ I have so many memories of this song — singing it at weddings with Rachael, singing it by myself on NYC subway platforms when I had just moved here and didn’t know anybody, hearing it on the radio as a kid, catching the music video on MuchMusic. We made a quick-and-dirty video of it shortly after the beginning of lockdown in 2020, and people seemed to really like it, so we thought it deserved a proper recording.” — Taylor Ashton

Photo credit: Desmond Picotte

WATCH: Bella White, “Just Like Leaving” (Acoustic Live)

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Artist: Bella White
Hometown: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Song: “Just Like Leaving” (Acoustic Live)
Album: Just Like Leaving
Release Date: May 4, 2021
Label: Rounder Records

In Their Words: “For some reason, playing ‘Just Like Leaving’ by myself feels more honest sometimes. This song is a diary entry of sorts and I usually only write in my diary alone. It was so special to record this video in Vancouver, BC. It felt very cyclical to come back to western Canada after putting out an album that orbits around my journey of leaving western Canada. When I play this song alone, there’s vulnerability that feels more tangible.” — Bella White

Photo Credit: Portia Burton

WATCH: Suzie Ungerleider, “Baby Blues”

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Artist: Suzie Ungerleider
Hometown: Vancouver, BC
Song: “Baby Blues”
Album: My Name is Suzie Ungerleider
Release Date: August 13, 2021
Label: MVKA

In Their Words: “‘Baby Blues’ is inspired by the idea that we all carry little movies in our minds about things that have scarred us in our childhoods. They replay in our heads and whisper in our ears and affect how we see the world so profoundly for the rest of our lives. They make maps in our brains that tie us forever to that geography of the past. The song is set on the country roads in Ontario, Canada, where there literally is a place called Fallowfield. Rolling hills and farmland and falling down barns dot the landscape. It’s beautiful and haunting all at once.” — Suzie Ungerleider

Photo credit: Stephen Drover

WATCH: Taylor Ashton (Feat. Rachael Price), “Alex”

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Artist: Taylor Ashton (featuring Rachael Price)
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York via Vancouver B.C.
Song: “Alex”
Album: Romanticize
Release Date: February 5, 2021
Label: Signature Sounds

In Their Words: “Rachael and I traveled to On Deck Sound Studio in Connecticut to do a streaming show from their live room just after the new year, and before the show started broadcasting we filmed this stripped down version of ‘Alex,’ which is a song on my upcoming EP Romanticize (a companion to my album The Romantic which came out last year). The produced version is lush, with piano, electric guitar, drums, bass clarinet and synths, but I love the way this song feels just stripped down to the skeletal banjo part and the two voices. Rachael and I singing together has definitely been a hallmark of this quarantine time, since we would usually be too busy with our respective schedules to make it work. So the song ‘Alex’ and this stripped-down live video are a record of this time and this silver lining of an otherwise extremely weird year.” — Taylor Ashton

Photo credit: Shervin Lainez

LISTEN: Taylor Ashton, “Alex” (Featuring Rachael Price)

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Artist: Taylor Ashton (Featuring Rachael Price)
Hometown: Vancouver, Canada & Brooklyn, New York
Song: “Alex”
Album: Romanticize EP
Release Date: February 5, 2021
Label: Signature Sounds

In Their Words: “’Alex’ is a duet between two people living in a house with a bunch of other housemates and a thriving backyard garden. They’re both named Alex and they haven’t admitted their feelings for each other yet, and I don’t know if they ever will. These characters came to me in a dream, although I recognize in them aspects of myself and people from my past, and I imagine their house as some combination of all the ones I’ve lived in or stayed at over the years. Each time I imagine them, things change: they age forwards and backwards, their gender identities shift, and their reasons for keeping their feelings secret change.

“It’s a treat to sing this with the great Rachael Price, who I happen to be married to — we are roommates in a sense, but we definitely don’t have the same name and our feelings for each other are not a secret.” — Taylor Ashton

Photo credit: Shervin Lainez

Harmonics with Beth Behrs: Episode 6, Allison Russell

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Allison Russell is one half of acclaimed roots music duo Birds of Chicago, with her husband JT Nero, and a member of Americana supergroup Our Native Daughters.

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Editor’s Note: This episode contains intense and honest descriptions of trauma that may be triggering to some listeners. While there is nothing directly explicit in the content, listener discretion is advised.

Born and raised in Quebec, Allison Russell survived a traumatic childhood, teaching herself various instruments as a way to cope before eventually finding her voice within the Vancouver music scene. On this episode of Harmonics, Russell talks with host Beth Behrs about those traumas, the healing power of music and artistic community, the history of the banjo, the intersectionality of the honest conversations currently being had in our culture, and much, much more.

In addition to her career with Birds of Chicago, Russell is one quarter of Americana supergroup, the Grammy-nominated Our Native Daughters, with Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, and Leyla McCalla, and is preparing to release her first solo album. She and JT Nero live in Nashville with their daughter.

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LISTEN: Joshua Hyslop, “Let It Rain”

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Artist: Joshua Hyslop
Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia
Song: “Let It Rain”
Album: Ash & Stone
Release Date: September 11, 2020
Label: Nettwerk

In Their Words: “We recorded ‘Let it Rain’ in Vancouver, BC, at Afterlife Studios. I was lucky enough to work with some truly amazing musicians including John Raham, Darren Parris, Chris Gestrin, Paul Rigby, and Matt Kelly. We had so much fun. It was a great reminder of how powerfully music can communicate, how it can heal, and how much that means to me. ‘Let it Rain’ is a song about mental health. I often deal with depression and one of the ways it manifests in my life is an overwhelming feeling of numbness. I’m trying to be more positive in those moments, recognizing that I can’t avoid the storms but also trying hard to stay present and remain hopeful through them.” — Joshua Hyslop

Photo credit: Devon Scott Wong

LISTEN: Luke Wallace, “Pale Kids”

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Artist: Luke Wallace
Hometown: Vancouver, Canada – Coast Salish Territory
Song: “Pale Kids”
Album: What on Earth
Release Date: March 6, 2020
Label: Come To Life Music

In Their Words: “It’s hard to write songs about privilege without losing people in criticism or preaching. ‘Pale Kids’ is rooted in the truth that non-white communities have been fighting and dying for their rights, and all human rights, for a long time. This song is about calling in my fellow Pale folks into action, recognizing that our voices carry a lot of power when directed at the governments and institutions that maintain our privilege. I’m seeing more and more people from all backgrounds rising to the occasion and using their voices for justice, and I have a hunch that if thousands of privileged, middle-class white folks started showing up in the same way that our non-white counterparts are, we’d see rapid, sweeping changes to the way our governments treat non-white communities. It’s the old ‘with great privilege comes great responsibility.’ This song goes right to the heart of what that means, calling those who can to use their privilege for the liberation of all people.” — Luke Wallace

Photo credit: Alex Harris

LISTEN: Dustin Bentall, ” If Yer Willin'”

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Artist: Dustin Bentall
Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Song: “If Yer Willin'”
Album: High in the Satellite EP
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Label: Roaring Girl Records

In Their Words: “This is a song about being willing to take that chance in love and those feelings you get when you’re falling in that direction. Sometimes you get on that highway blindly and hope that you can make someone’s life richer in hopes that the same thing returned back to you. And maybe that love is just returning to a place you’ve been going to since childhood.” — Dustin Bentall

Photo credit: Stefan Berrill