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LINKS [AB-OC-21] THE BIG HUGE - A Woven Page Of Silver Light  CD-EP only $9 USA; $12 World 1. Will I Follow You to the Sea 2. Wrapped in the Cloths of Heaven 3. A Crickets Call Come One and All 4. The Ballad of North Haywood 5. A Subtle Tune 6. Weep Not Wandering Willow 7. North Country [MP3] Drew Nelson continues to bless us with his wavering tenor voice, plinky banjo and old world balladry on this EP, a follow-up to The Big Huge's 2004 Secret Eye debut, Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown Your Heart With Joy. Brought up on American folk and British psychedelic pop music, The Big Huge wears its influences on its sleeve, while being sure not to recreate the past. After the split of Sonna, a Baltimore-based instrumental ambient group with releases on Temporary Residence (two of which were recorded by Steve Albini), The Big Huge (Drew Nelson) decided to revert back to his love of acoustic instrumentation. After a few solo shows, he decided to recruit fellow Baltimore-based musician, Michael Lambright, to help with accordion, ukulele, glockenspiel, and banjo. Recorded by Micah Blue Smaldone at Cerberus Shoal's house in Portland, Maine, the record has a hazy vibe with lyrics harking back to a time of Welsh communes during the summer of love. The American answer to Alasdair Roberts... but without the brogue. [AB-OC-12] THE BIG HUGE - Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown Your Heart With Joy  CD only $11 USA; $15 World 1. Lows At The Highland Game 2. Harbor To A Hill [MP3] 3. Sweetest Lilly 4. Slumbering Lioness 5. Autumnal Hymn 6. Bonnie Boy 7. A Lofty Hill A Shady Nook 8. Dogwood and Sky 9. Atop A Secret Mountain 10. Willie of Winsbury 11. A Fond Farewell The debut from Baltimore's The Big Huge features lovely acoustic fingerpicking, banjo and accordion. This disc includes a few traditional songs, such as Willie-o-Winsbury (one of our favorites!) and many originals in a classic brit-folk style. REVIEWS "The Big Huge weaves a stark folk pop spell on Crown Your Head With Flowers, Crown your Heart With Joy (Secret Eye), a bittersweet confessional of home spun acoustic pop that's worthy of comparison to Neutral Milk Hotel, Will Oldham. Drew Nelson and his trio weave some truly poetic folk pop magic from guitar, banjo, dulcimer, ukulele, recorder, accordion and more. Tracks like "Atop a Secret Mountain" and the epic story-folk of "Willie of Winsbury" will stay with you long after their vibrations fade." - Foxy Digitalis "Lows at the Highland Game starts with bell chimes before a moodily atmospheric acoustic guitar refrain which leads us into the quite gorgeous guitars and vocal of Harbor To A Hill. We have here direct folk song of the highest order�There is a feeling of playing in a garden, delicate and part of the air on the next Autumnal Hymn. Atop A Secret Mountain has musical percussion and a song that really does sound like late period Nick Drake without being slavish to that great artist, indeed it sounds like Dulcimer of the late 60s�.a very soft, exploratory album that has strong performances and one the band can build even further upon for subsequent releases. It's a great discovery and one of the more directly folk releases of the recent era. They deserve your support." - Unbroken Circle 
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