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This track has seriously been on repeat for about 2 weeks and qualifies for "Best New Music" already. You know him, but do you know him as a "solo artist"? Ryan Boldt of The Deep Dark Woods looses none of the prairie roots magic with his own material in comparison to the DDWs. The track is "Mary Hamilton's Last Goodnight" and is a spectacularly slow and waning Canadiana track. The signature vocals of Boldt that immediately bring you to those achingly beautiful tracks from his day job as lead of the Saskatchewan indie heroes The Deep Dark Woods. [...]

Tweet Canadian crooners Deep Dark Woods offer harmonies that are delivered with such an enchanting seriousness that upon hearing their brand of folk rock I simply fell head over heels. The first track to catch my attention is "Sugar Mama" - a song about growing older, taking chances and rekindling old flames. "Come on sugar mama take a chance with me/ I'm a lot older than I used to be" is enough to charm me; I'd head out with [...]

The Deep Dark Woods is Ryan Boldt (guitar), Burke Barlow (guitar), Chris Mason (bass), and Lucas Goetz (drums), with all four sharing songwriting and vocal duties. Winter Hours is their sophomore release on the Black Hen Music label and w as recorded and produced in Vancouver at The Factory by Steve Dawson. The album most certainly surpasses the excellent Hang Me, Oh Hang Me, which happened to win the award for Best Roots Album at the Western Canadian Music Awards. When I wrote about The Deep Dark Woods' first album I described it [...]