Assorted Orchids and the stoic yet stirring folk remains of "From the Cradle to the Grave"

 

"A happy child, a baby; Though she smiles, Eventually / Seasons change..."

"From the Cradle to the Grave" by Assorted Orchids, the debut recording project of Lowell, Massachusetts native T. McWilliams, is an exercise in beautifully sublime simplicity. McWilliams spins strings of melancholia and rainbows of emotions with only his evocative acoustic guitar picking, his haunting vocal aesthetic and embracing cello work by Natalia Jean McDermott. 

"From the Cradle to the Grave" ("a song about loss and love") is from Assorted Orchids' self-titled debut album sitting squarely in the middle of ten tracks. You can delve into the entire album via the Bandcamp link.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Assorted Orchids is the debut recording of Massachusetts native T.McWilliams.

Having spent the preceding seventeen years living in locales ranging from Boston to Los Angeles to NYC to Scotland to Shanghai and points in between, splitting time between work and personal endeavors, Assorted Orchids sprung up slowly over time, from the rare quiet moments afforded in between places. It was back in his home town for the first time in nearly two decades that McWilliams, afforded far more quiet than usual as a result of quarantine, began to finally flesh out the scraps, drafts, vignettes, and sketches that accumulated along his path: the Assorted Orchids that grew along the way.

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