THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “With an appeal to bring women’s voices back to the forefront, Dawn Landes brings us her new album, The Liberated Woman’s Songbook.
The album reimagines music from the women’s liberation movement, with songs featured in The Liberated Woman’s Songbook, originally published in 1971. Landes, along with producer Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman, Bob Weir, Cassandra Jenkins), highlights 11 musical stories from the canon of women’s activism, from 1830 to 1970. These messages are just as timely today as they were then.
The Liberated Woman’s Songbook was recorded in upstate New York at Little Pink and at The Garage in Chapel Hill, with Landes on vocals, guitar and organ and Kaufman steering guitars, keys, drums, bass, mandolin and percussion. Landes enlisted an array of powerful voices to accentuate the vital messages that run throughout the album, including Emily Frantz of Watchhouse, Kanene Pipkin of The Lone Bellow, Rissi Palmer, Charly Lowry, Annie Nero and Lizzy Ross (Violet Bell).
In July 2023, Landes and Kaufman dazzled audiences with a live performance of The Liberated Woman’s Songbook at the Newport Folk Festival. Look out for select performances of The Liberated Woman’s Songbook featuring guest artists and luminaries Alice Gerrard and Peggy Seeger.”
