Starting ‘Over Again’: Live and Local with A Different Thread!

About this episode

Alicia Best and Robert Jackson discuss their long-awaited album 'Over Again' and the journey behind its creation.

Alicia Best and Robert Jackson of A Different Thread stopped by Live & Local this week, ahead of the May 1 release of their latest album, “Over Again.” Visit ADifferentThread.com. “It’s been a long time coming, this record,” Jackson says of the album, their third, which he and Best have been working on for years. “We’re very excited.” Fans of A Different Thread have been anticipating this week for a long time: the duo dropped the album’s first single, “Come On Home Molly,” more than 11 months ago, and they’ve been steadily releasing new singles (eight in all) to tease the full album ever since. But for Jackson and Best themselves, the journey to this week has been even longer. “A lot of these songs were written during a time when we couldn’t be together for visas and border reasons,” Jackson says. “And so we wrote these songs as a way of holding onto the hope that we could live together one day, and that things would get a little easier… “So it’s a relief, (and) we’re very excited to be putting this new album out – and in a lot of ways it kind of feels like we just finally get to lay down these bags.” A Different Thread’s origin story is the stuff of movies: both…

People in this episode

Guests: Alicia Best, Robert Jackson

Topics covered

• music
• album release
• folk music
• collaboration
• artist journey

Keywords

• A Different Thread
• Over Again
• album release
• folk music
• Come On Home Molly

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: A Different Thread, ADifferentThread.com

Books & works: Over Again, Come On Home Molly

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