Afton Wolfe – The Harvest
Afton Wolfe – The Harvest
Format: CD – Digital
Label: Grandiflora Records
Release: 2023
Release date: November 17, 2023
Some say the springtime is when life begins, but this fall, Nashville recording artist Afton Wolfe shows that ‘The Harvest’ can be the time for beginnings as well. Collaborating with producer Doc Sarlo (Feisty Records, Altered Statesman, Adam Trumbo, Jim Skinner Blues Trio) on a seven-track record of songs all written by veteran Nashville songwriter (and Wolfe’s father-in-law) L.H. Halliburton, The Harvest enforces and expands Wolfe’s genre fluidity, but it mostly showcases great songs artistically produced and arranged and powerfully performed.
Bio
Afton Wolfe has worn the hats of many humans from philosopher to lawyer, neuroscientist to bartender, from Washington to Tennessee, but his roots are in those of the rock, blues, and soul music of Mississippi. Armed with an additional deep love for Oscar Wilde, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, Wolfe’s music aptly sits somewhere between these influences and his youngest musical experiences singing onstage with his mother at the State Boulevard Baptist Church in Meridian, MS. With a few starts in stops in recording and touring, between studying and sampling alternate means of making a living, sometimes a defender and sometimes a defendant before judges, Wolfe has remained a consistent songwriter reflecting on all facets of his wandering.
So far in 2023, Wolfe has toured the East Coast, appeared for the second season at the Tropic of Cancer Concert Series in Todos Santos Mexico, hosted by the band Cordovas, and released the EP ‘Twenty-Three.’ And he can always be found as a featured guest at the legendary East Nashville annual Tom Wait’s tribute to raise money for Second Harvest, led and curated by Mary Sack with a collection of artists that have had a significant impact on the birth and growth of the highly revered East Nashville music scene.
Other highlights in Wolfe’s catalogue include his 2021 album release, ‘Kings for Sale,’ of which Blues Matters said, “Musically, it staggers between rough country blues and Steely Dan getting in a brawl with a proper jazz band”. And in 2022, Wolfe also teamed up with Mississippi artist, Cary Hudson (Blue Mountain), for a single and video release of Faces’ classic, ‘Ooh La La’.
Website: https://aftonwolfe.com/
Tracks:
01. Harvest (3:44)
02. New Orleans Going Down (3:35)
03. Lost Prayers (3:48)
04. Hello, Mr. Wolf (5:17)
05. Til the River No Longer Flows (4:04)
06. Mississippi (3:19)
07. Here to Stay (4:05)