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3 months ago James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra, recently released a video for “Ella Mary Leather.” The track is of their forthcoming release The Wide, Wide River available January 22, 2021 via Domino Records. “Ella Mary Leather” is titled after a Herefordshire based folk song collector in the early 20th Century, James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s song is not about her. Yorkston explains: “No, it’s not about Ella Mary Leather. I am just using her lyrical name as a mask, to protect the innocent…” Over a wealth of percussion, violin, and nyckelharpa, Yo...

DJ Dolphin Boy. James Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra have kindly unveiled a second song from their forthcoming album ‘The Wide, Wide River’, due January 22nd. ‘Ella Mary Leather’ opens with a good old piano vamp which leads us into a soaring and melancholy song about a friendship past, full of shoe-horned rhymes and buoyant instrumentation. Ella Mary Leather herself was a Herefordshire-based folk song collector in the early 20th Century, but James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s song is not about her. Yorkston explains: “No, it’s not about Ella Mary Leather. I a...