The Trapeze Swinger (Iron & Wine Cover)

“Dog With A Bone” was written in November 2022 and recorded at The
Record Co. in June 2023. With inspirations drawn from the likes of Noah Kahan and boygenius, listeners can expect a dreamy folk-rock track with warm vocals, glittery guitar layers (electric provided by Noah Kahan’s touring guitarist Noah Levine), and a driving momentum that creates an overall sense of nostalgia and catharsis.

Dog With A Bone

Original Song by Gregory Alan Isakov
Arranged for solo piano by Noah Evan Wilson
Mastered by Jake Fine
Art by Mary McClure and Noah Evan Wilson

Big Black Car (Arranged for Solo Piano)

On the show next time, it’s the indie-folk songwriting of Gregory Alan Isakov. It's one of a kind sessions from your favorite artists, and from a few, you're about to discover.  From our studios in Seattle it’s Live on KEXP.

Live On KEXP

Live On KEXP, Episode 419 - Gregory Alan Isakov (Promo)

On the show this time, it’s the meticulous indie-folk songwriting of Gregory Alan Isakov. His latest album is called “Appaloosa Bones” and is available on Dualtone Records/Suitcase Town Music.

Live On KEXP, Episode 419 - Gregory Alan Isakov

One of my favorite all time songs from one of my favorite albums: 'That Sea, The Gambler.'

The Stable Song

Recorded using Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, harmonica and Pickaso Guitar Bow.
Check out the cool video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7SiBrSrL0

The Stable Song - Gregory Alan Isakov (Cover) With Harmonica and Guitar Bow

Mash-Up Cover of the following Gregory Alan Isakov Songs: Big Black Car+Light Year+The Stable Song+San Luis

Noah Kahan- Gregory Alan Isakov Covers (Big Black Car+Light Year+The Stable Song+San Luis)

Snow Geese (demo)

West Union

Astronaut (take #2)

Recorded to a Zoom H2N with an Eastman guitar.

Chemicals - Gregory Alan Isakov

monsters beneath your neighbors bed

Lyric Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZc0AHbgcU
Stream: https://ffm.to/dellwood-rainlost.bio

Marking nearly one year since the first Dellwood release, “Rain Lost Its Water” feels like both a return and a progression — echoing the intimate melancholy of debut single See Your Face while introducing new sonic textures that reflect the project’s evolution.

This cinematic folk song was born from two evocative lyrical seeds: 
“Half the bulbs are burnt out on my old porch” — cozy and nostalgic. And the title phrase — “The rain lost its water” — poetic and heartbroken.

“This one started with two images — the porch with burnt-out bulbs, which felt nostalgic and cozy,” explains Chris Bartels, “and then ‘the rain lost its water,’ which came out of nowhere and carried this heavy, melancholic weight. I became obsessed with marrying those two moods: the heaviness of loss, but also the warmth of memory.”

The track weaves these emotional threads into a story of love lost, rooted in memory and season. It’s deeply autumnal — not just in imagery, but in tone. A gentle unraveling. A reflection. A letting go.

The vocal production is thick and immersive: layered harmonies, octaves, and subtly processed vocoder moments build a sonic bed that mirrors the emotional weight of the lyrics. For the first time in the Dellwood discography, slide guitar appears, making a haunting and heartfelt impact.

“Rain Lost Its Water” is a clear example of what Dellwood has come to represent — a space for both craft and intuition. A balance between intensely working the material and also stepping aside to let the song emerge.

For fans of Hazlett, Novo Amor, Bon Iver, Noah Kahan, S. Carey, Iron & Wine

Press Highlights for Dellwood (Year One):

* “Soul-stirring indie-folk… raw and intimate strums wonderfully juxtaposed with cinematically produced vocal layering.” – Up To Hear Music

* “Delicate harmonies radiate raw emotion and soul… a hauntingly personal atmosphere.” – Caesar Live N Loud

* “Explores the weight of family through a haunting narrative… lyrics ache with unspoken words.” – Purple Melon

* “An intimate slice of folk… emotional power and sincerity reminiscent of early Bon Iver.” – We All Want Someone To Shout For

* “A warm, atmospheric soundscape… tackling life’s challenges and finding solace in shared vulnerability.” – Purple Melon

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LYRICS

Half the bulbs are burnt out
On my old porch 
And the candle fragrance left me
Only wanting you more

The fall weather, sudden
Has me thinking me about
The night we stayed up laughing
And crying on the floor

I swear autumn lost its color
And the sun turned to gray
The rain lost its water
When you went away
And darling, I’m sorry if I let it slip
I’m sorry if I let it fade
The rain lost its water
When you went away

Took a trip to the mountains
Left behind our maps
Was hoping the high ground
Would help us find our breath 
But I saw your ticket’s one way
And I face our silhouette
Now the wild takes me
Back to the day we met

I swear autumn lost its color
And the sun turned to gray
The rain lost its water
When you went away
And darling, I’m sorry if I let it slip
I’m sorry if I let it fade
The rain lost its water
When you went away

I swear autumn lost its color
And the sun turned to gray
The rain lost its water
When you went away
And darling, I’m sorry if I let it slip
I’m sorry if I let it fade
The rain lost its water
When you went away

Rain Lost Its Water

Music Video: https://youtu.be/7drVeag0eak?si=wCvYeLXp27caInBi
Stream: https://www.submithub.com/link/dellwood-the-animals

With The Animals, Dellwood steps further into darker, more mysterious territory — a brooding folk song that feels both intimate and otherworldly.

Built around a simple acoustic guitar progression, the track is carried by haunting vocal layers in a lower range than most Dellwood recordings to date. The lyrics unfold like fragments of memory and dream — “Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground” — evoking both disorientation and belonging. It’s a meditation on longing and self-searching, on being caught in a mental maze but trusting the wrestle will find purpose.

“The Animals felt like a personal paradox,” says Chris Bartels. “I wanted to capture the feeling of being lost in doubt while still grounded in something familiar. It’s vulnerable and cryptic, but also strangely hopeful.”

The production leans into both nostalgia and experimentation. Folk roots are present in the acoustic core, while experimental textures emerge from recording layers in different keys, then pitching them back — creating ghostly shadows beneath the song’s surface. The result is a track that feels familiar and human, yet unsettlingly spectral.

The Animals expands Dellwood’s evolving palette: cinematic folk at its core, but open to the edge of the unknown — a voice both comforting and haunting, finding beauty in the wrestle between fragility and purpose.

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Press Highlights for Dellwood (Year One):

• “Soul-stirring indie-folk… raw and intimate strums wonderfully juxtaposed with cinematically produced vocal layering.” – Up To Hear Music

• “Delicate harmonies radiate raw emotion and soul… a hauntingly personal atmosphere.” – Caesar Live N Loud

• “Explores the weight of family through a haunting narrative… lyrics ache with unspoken words.” – Purple Melon

• “An intimate slice of folk… emotional power and sincerity reminiscent of early Bon Iver.” – We All Want Someone To Shout For

• “A warm, atmospheric soundscape… tackling life’s challenges and finding solace in shared vulnerability.” – Purple Melon

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LYRICS

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

Whispers knit, your cryptic verse
The night we broke, with starry guise
Tempered dust, I’ve been sculpted out
I washed it clear, with blood-red eyes

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

It’s brighter now, but only from the snow
The coffee, strong, forgotten on the table
Now back to dirt, the woodlands’ pull 
I’ve tasted all, the timeless fate, betrayal 

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

The Animals

indie podcast and narrative audio producer who hates pro tools with her entire soul

Visit my YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@danswofford.  

I took up playing the guitar as a 'retirement thing' and I didn't realize then how much I would enjoy it. Lately I've been trying to learn to sing a long with the instrument, learn a few folk songs that resonate with me, and try to learn to record/film/post them. I hope you like these little uploads and thanks a lot for your time! - Dan

Check out my YouTube channels: 
Mind Control Eclipser 
https://www.youtube.com/@mindcontroleclipser 
Peter Andrew Smart Music https://www.youtube.com/@PeterAndrewSmartMusic. Also check out SmartPro Muzic LLC on Soundcloud and YouTube. I have some clients I create video and music content for including a filmmaker with films on Amazon and series out on other streaming platforms.

All music recorded using actual instruments such as piano, guitar, harmonica and vocals live, no samples, no looping.  Recorded drums and other digital instruments and synthesizers, using keys and pads on midi controllers Keylab Essentials 49 as well as AKAI MPD 226.

I hope you enjoy listening, please follow and check out the links.
Thank you!

Dellwood is the latest musical chapter from Minneapolis-based artist and producer Chris Bartels, known for his expansive catalog of deeply atmospheric and emotive music under various monikers, including Elskavon, Blurstem, Olma, Glass Echoes, and more. With Dellwood, Bartels returns to his acoustic roots, blending intricate folk storytelling with cinematic ambient production to create an organic soundscape that is both intimate and expansive.

Inspired by the natural beauty of Minnesota and the vulnerability of personal experience, Dellwood’s music captures raw emotion through layered rubber-bridge-muted guitars, sonically stirring production, and haunting-yet-familiar vocals, ranging from airy falsetto to deep, rich bellows. Bartels’ love for adventuring his home state and the surrounding Midwest plays a central role in the creative process, with nature not only inspiring the songs but often acting as a co-writer of sorts. Frequently taking pen, pad, and guitar outside the studio walls, Bartels allows the landscapes around him to shape the emotional and sonic tones of Dellwood’s music.

Drawing influences from artists like Bon Iver, Novo Amor, Hazlett, and RY X, Dellwood finds beauty in quiet spaces, crafting songs that explore themes of longing, loss, and connection. The project highlights Bartels' ability to merge the organic with the atmospheric, utilizing field recordings and delicate guitar work to create soundscapes that resonate with listeners on a deeply personal level.

Chloe Borsody is an American folk singer-songwriter hailing from Northern California.

NYC-based songwriter & composer. Official releases at noahevanwilson.com/music

I humbly record tunes with my guitar and voice on my iPhone. Some produced songs to come…

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