Anona – “Same Old Lady”

I highlighted the debut EP from Wax Machine/New Eves collaborator Ella Russell last week, a 2023 gem if you’ve missed out prior, and this week Russell returns with a new track that rides perfectly on the Autumn air. Inspired by Karen Dalton’s 1971 adaptation of traditional American folk song “Old Man Sitting at a Mill,” Russell offers up her own version, “Same Old Lady.” Like the works on her EP, the song rides the soft-focus edge between jazz and folk, gilding the song’s traditional lilt with flutes, strings and sax. Under the mercurial moon of Anona, the track is given just a twist of psych, a firelight flicker that’s working its way through the Wicker Man shadows that have been popping up in the past year, with nods to Susan Christie and Jane Weaver along the way. The new single is out today from Strong Island Records.

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