RS COUNTRY MUSIC PICKS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 23RD
Kelsey Waldon goes way back into her archives for this song written for her 2014 debut The Goldmine. In the end, “Fixin’ It Up” didn’t make the cut, but the Kentucky songwriter wisely returns to it years later, re-recording the pledge to her mother to at least try to live a good life. “There’s a doubt in my heart and a gleam in my eye/but I’m fixing it up mama, and I’m doin it right,” Waldon sings over fiddle and banjo. Released as 7” single with the also previously unheard “Dreaming Woman” as the B-side, The Goldmine Archives are Waldon’s latest music for John Prine’s Oh Boy Records — and she promises that more (new) material is on the way.
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