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Recently, Saskatchewan songwriter Ellen Froese released her first new single via Victory Pool, “In The Sun”. Today, she shares another new single, “Did You Have A Love Before Me?”, a song written “in the heart of COVID because I was in a songwriting slump and just looking for an idea to roll with,” says Froese. “I think I was staring into my closet with my guitar in hand trying to think of something to write about, when I pictured a wedding dress hanging in there. I thought, hey, maybe that could be a story. So I wrote about a person who finds a mysterious wedding dress in their partners' closet, and they are wondering what brought it there. It's a sad country song. I'm especially pleased with the omnichord in the choruses!”
Recorded at The Rec Hall in Saskatoon, “Did You Have A Love Before Me” features esteemed peers Clayton Linthicum (Kacy and Clayton - Guitar), Sam Corbett (The Sheepdogs - Drums/Production), and Chris Mason (The Deep Dark Woods - Bass).
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MORE ABOUT ELLEN FROESE
Folk singer-songwriter Ellen Froese’s comforting and husky warble gets crowds a little groovy and commands presence on Canadian and international stages. When she sings that she ‘feels like I’m waiting for you to let loose,’ a line from the first track on her 2019 album Fightin’ Words, listeners wonder how they could’ve ever kept her waiting.
Clever and slightly self-deprecating, Ellen’s songs get into the places of your heart that hold both those quieter melancholic feelings and those moments of warm contentment that make you want to dance shoulder to shoulder with whoever is around.
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Growing up on a dairy farm in the heart of Saskatchewan, Ellen’s passion for music started at an early age, beginning with a love of listening to the classics in her dad’s truck. But it was discovering Neil Young that drove her to a love of songwriting. Hearing his music made her quit piano lessons to instead teach herself guitar.
The beginning of her career was heavily influenced by classic folk and bluegrass. In 2012, she and two friends formed In With The Old, which Ellen lovingly calls her “teenage bluegrass band,” which produced two albums and toured extensively. Now with three solo albums and one forthcoming in 2022, Ellen’s sound has evolved, though she’s never stopped being obsessed with folk music. Her music now adds elements of rock n’ roll, classic country ballads, honky-tonk, and 1970s psychedelic pop grooves while still being grounded in the bluegrass tradition of a working-class relatability.
Ellen is currently working on her fourth solo album, produced by Sam Corbett of The Sheepdogs, which finds her stepping out of her comfort zone even more. It’s sure to have fans swooning.
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