Holler Country Gets Behind Milly Raccoon, Whose New LP Topped This Week’s Folk Adds Chart At NACC

“Milly Raccoon is one of Americana’s best kept secrets,” writes Holler Country. “The fiddle player and singer has been eccentrically reimagining bluegrass, jazz and old timey country as feminist anthems for a world on fire ever since she first appeared on the scene nearly a decade ago.” The site has the premiere of Raccoon’s self-animated video for “That Girl I Left Behind Me,” one of the standout tracks on her new album Frankincense & Myrrh, which tied as the most-added record at NACC Folk this week.

“The melody under this title traces back to Elizabethan England when it was sung by British soldiers,” she explains. “It remained a wartime song for the next five centuries, with new lyrics added for each new wartime era, notably the American civil war and World War I… My version of this song consists of my own lyrics about having trouble finding my way in life, as though I am in my own personal battle with social anxiety and lack of focus, and the reprise of the traditional chorus now refers to a version of myself I felt I had left behind, as opposed to a war-torn romance.” Read more here.