Joan Shelley has announced her new album: The Spur is out June 24 via No Quarter. The album features contributions from Bill Callahan, Meg Baird, novelist Max Porter, and Shelley’s husband Nathan Salsburg. Check out the video for the album’s title track below.
“The Spur is the result of a period of opposite extremes: of intellectual hyper-connection and physical isolation,” Shelley said in a statement. “This album will forever be fused with the memory of our marriage, the birth of our child, and the intense joy despite the darkness.”
The Spur is Shelley’s first album since 2019’s Like the River Loves the Sea. She contributed to Salsburg’s 2021 record Psalms. Read “How Guitarist Nathan Salsburg Built an Album Around Traditional Jewish Texts” on the Pitch.

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