Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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New Harmony is taken from the new Martin Simpson album, Skydancers, which is available now: martinsimpson.lnk.to/skydancers

Martin says about New Harmony:
"The folk tradition can often supply you with the song you are struggling to write. My friend, Josh Michaell, of Mill Valley, CA, likes to find songs for me. He is really good at it. He sent me the recordings of the late Craig Johnson, who was an immensely talented old time musician. He was a great fiddle and banjo player but equally fluent on the guitar. His repertoire included renditions of Skip James’ blues, which are very hard to sing and play convincingly, in addition to dance tunes and songs from Riley Puckett and other stars of the 1920’s recording boom. From time to time, Craig would find it necessary to write a song and he proved to be a major, if not regular, songwriter. Josh brought New Harmony to my attention and it is, I think, a beautiful depiction of a Winter road trip through Indiana. It is classic Americana. Craig only made one record, which was released in 2009. He died that same year. He wrote ‘New Harmony’ during and after a Winter road trip through Indiana,
thinking of his father and grandfather, the latter having been born in New Harmony, IN."

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