Anaïs Mitchell wilderland / young man in America

Alert: some light leakage/flashing images in this video

Back in 2012, I was stood browsing in my local record shop (remember them?) and the assistant popped on a CD of which the first track (actually two songs but with a common theme - see 'Title' above) immediately blew me away.

I asked him "what is that, it's great" and he replied "It's Anaïs Mitchell's new album "Young Man In America"! So I just had to buy it and I've been an Anaïs Mitchell fan ever since, having bought a number of her other albums including "Hadestown" (concept album which retells the Orpheus & Eurydice myth set in an America of hard economic, social & political times), "Child Ballads" which features reworkings of 'folk' songs (check out the wonderful 'Tam Lin', even better than Fairport's version IMHO), & "Hymns For The Exiled".

Anyway, as happens with me, I tend to listen to music in spurts / cycles so I hadn't listened to Anaïs in a while until I came across her 2021 collaborations with Big Red Machine, of which "New Auburn" is a real standout for me so I made a little fan-made video for it, and then decided to make one for Wilderland / Young Man In America because they're included in my favourite songs ever list, and I immediately reconnected with them once I heard them again.

So I'm back into Anaïs listening mode. Hope you enjoy listening.