Artist: Mighty Ghosts

Aberdeen is the sixth release from Portland based Mighty Ghosts (formerly The Mighty Ghosts of Heaven) an effortless roots-combo offering with plenty of twists and turns to keep the ear and brain engaged, the album started out as a project to collect together a range of traditional songs to create a storybook album, but morphed as the band added a bunch of their own compositions to plug the gaps in the storyline, the five piece are Aaron Shear (vocals, ukulele), Andy Sheie (vocals, guitar, fiddle, banjo), Gus Smith (vocals, guitar, percussion), Lucas Jones (upright bass) and Marni Afryl (drums). [...]

• Mighty Ghosts - The Land of Milk & Honey

Every Wednesday, I feature a brief review of at least one album that has been submitted to me through the ReviewShine website. I have cleverly titled this recurring segment "ReviewShine Wednesday." I've had a few connection issues while working on this late on a Tuesday night. Because of that, we're just going with a couple of super quickies today. If the Reds weren't playing extra innings on the West Coast, I'd be in bed already. Here's a track from Portland's Mighty Ghosts [...]

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