Boston folk singer Rachel Sumner challenged herself to structure a song around one of James Joyce's sentences. The result is her new single 'Hunting Doves.'
This is an exclusive song premiere, part of WBUR's effort to highlight New England musicians.originally moved to Boston to study the flute at Berklee College of Music. But she quickly fell in love with, of all things, bluegrass music. “All of Bill Monroe’s songs, he said they were 'true life blues,'” Sumner says. “Seeing him put himself in those songs was really appealing to me.”
her family was evicted on Christmas Eve. Along the way, she became as enamored with the craft of songwriting as with self-expression. “The more that I write, the more that I try to challenge myself to write differently,” she says.,” is a result of one of those self-challenges. Sumner loves James Joyce — the musicality of his writing, and his perfectionism — and she wondered what it would be like to structure a song around one of his sentences.
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