Sally Anne Morgan’s music sounds as though it has crept out of the backwoods of her native North Carolina, her voice, banjo and fiddle thrumming with the wet heaviness of that region’s stormy summers. As a member of folk duo House and Land and Appalachian old-time-music band Black Twig Pickers, her work usually twists from the roots of traditional songs and instrumentals. Her new album, Carrying (her third solo album after 2020’s Thread and 2021’s Cups) clings to something in the present, however: the strangeness of becoming a mother and the arrival of her first child.
