The Weeping Willows Black Crow

Fresh from the red carpet of Tamworth's CMAA Awards, where The Weeping Willows took home the 2021 Golden Guitar for Instrumental of the Year (for previous outing 'Prelude'), partners in life, love, and song Andrew Wrigglesworth and Laura Coates delve into darkness once again with brooding new single "Black Crow". Encroaching doom never sounded so sweet.

Shivering with misgiving, "Black Crow" finds its murderous protagonist inescapably fixed by the penetrating gaze of the titular bird – harbinger of his inevitable fate at the end of a rope. Bleakly arresting, it's yet another unmissable taste of The Weeping Willows' long-awaited third studio album.

About the song, The Weeping Willows said, "We've always been drawn to the more sinister, 'Gothic' side of Americana music that harks back to early blues, as well as Bluegrass and 'mountain music' traditions. Writing Black Crow allowed us to delve deeper into this sub-genre".

Rooted in ageless country-folk tradition, "Black Crow" deploys the most urgently up-tempo picking in The Weeping Willows catalogue to date: acoustic and slide guitar rippling like the surface of an inky tarn disturbed by a smoking gun or bloodied knife. It's also eloquent proof that Andrew and Laura's celebrated vocal harmony is as exquisitely suited to fatalistic tales of murder as it is to a delicate love song.

Recorded, engineered and mixed by Ryan Freeland (Justin Townes Earle, Tift Merritt, Bonnie Raitt) at Los Angeles' storied Stampede Origin Studio,"Black Crow" thrills with all the dark storytelling majesty of The Weeping Willows' critically acclaimed second album Before Darkness Comes A-Callin'. That album netted the duo four-star reviews from Rolling Stone, The Australian, and The Music, and confirmed The Weeping Willows as Australia's foremost vivisectors of the human condition and the shadowy forces that bind us to the earth.

To accompany the release of "Black Crow", The Weeping Willows are excited to present a very special animated film clip rendered in suitably austere blacks and greys and thrilling with foreboding.

"It was such a joy and privilege to work with the incredible Julie Zammarchi on the clip, she really brought whole new meaning and life to the song".

Like the beady-black eye of a raven, "Black Crow" is a timely reminder of the inescapability of fate. It's yet another dramatic masterwork in The Weeping Willows' incomparable songbook.