For their first new music since the release of last September’s full-length debut, If I Wait Any More, Carolina mountains-based trio, The Wilder Flower, offer “Every Time the Rain Comes Pouring Down,” a melancholy yet ultimately hopeful meditation that highlights the trio’s distinctive blend of old-time and bluegrass sounds.
Though it’s a modern composition, the song’s ballad form and lyrics harken back to earlier times:
There’s a quiet old place where my thoughts often stray
’Tis the grave where my dear parents lay
And the flowers I leave there, they all wash away
Every time the rain comes pouring down
Written by two-time GRAMMY Best Bluegrass Album winner Molly Tuttle and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s first Songwriter of the Year recipient, Jon Weisberger, “Every Time the Rain Comes Pouring Down” dates back to Tuttle’s arrival in Nashville nearly a decade ago. “Molly and I wrote this song in her basement apartment at our first appointment,” Weisberger recalls. “From the first time I heard The Wilder Flower, I thought it would be a great fit—it was as if the song had just been waiting for them.”
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Produced by Jon Wiesberger, Recorded at Crossroads Studio A in Arden, NC with Clay Miller, Cover Art and Design by Victory Garden Studios.