Recording: The Holy Oak Family Singers

Artist: The Holy Oak Family Singers

Songs: I Believe [Loretta Lynn cover] + Wrecking Ball [Emmylou Harris cover]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), October 9, 2022.

The Holy Oak Family Singers - I Believe

The Holy Oak Family Singers - Wrecking Ball

This time out, the HOFS was essentially a songwiters' circle convened by Luke Kuplowsky, Thom Gill and Alex Lukashevsky — plus a few friends called up to sing some tunes, natch. The hosts completed the first round robin, where Kuplowsky paid tribute to the memory of Loretta Lynn with a rendition of a song that she covered. A bit later on Ivy Mairi also contributed a cover-of-a-cover, with a sweet rendition of Neil Young's "Wrecking Ball". Showing the back-porch spirit of the night, I left the full lead-in here, where you can feel their musicians feeling the way into it, and Mairi a bit unsure of the key at the start before falling right into place.