The Hillbilly Thomists - Marigold (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Drifters seeking Hollywood happiness, minor prophets preaching to folks who won't listen, working class sages, and incarcerated saints — Marigold by The Hillbilly Thomists is filled with characters making their way through this valley of tears. It's a folky down-home Folk album with tight vocal harmonies, jumpy banjo picking, and jangly dobro slides that point listeners to practice patient hope amidst the choking thorns of life and that whoever you are and whatever path you're traveling on, it's the Lord who justifies.

In August 2023, the Hillbilly Thomists retreated to a cabin in the Catskill Mountains to record their fourth and most recent studio album of original music, Marigold. Continuing to draw from the vivid cultural and spiritual landscape of the band’s unofficial patron, Flannery O’Connor, who coined the phrase “hillbilly Thomist,” the friars have put together an album that’s at once old and new, rooted in the rich soil of traditional American music and blossoming into a lyrical meditation on life’s enduring trials and beauty.

“Everybody who has read Wise Blood thinks I’m a hillbilly nihilist, whereas I’m a hillbilly Thomist.” (Flannery O’Connor)

Tracklist:
01. Justify You
02. Marigold
03. Amos
04. Don't Take It Back
05. Christ Has a Garden
06. When We All Get Together
07. Cypress
08. Saturday Night
09. Heavenly Land
10. Jonah
11. Stand in the Light
12. Good
13. What Did I Do to You


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