Tiffany Williams - All Those Days of Drinking Dust (2022) [Hi-Res]

Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Tiffany Williams’ song “All Those Days of Drinking Dust,” the title track from her new album due to be available on August 19th.

All Those Days of Drinking Dust was produced, engineered and mixed by Duane Lundy, and mastered by Justin Perkins of Mystery Room Mastering.

Musicians on “All Those Days of Drinking Dust” are Tiffany Williams on vocals; Duane Lundy on keys; J. Tom Hnatow on acoustic and electric guitars and bass; Justin Craig on piano and organ; and Tripp Bratton on percussion.

Coal mining. A coal-miner’s daughter and the heartache that comes with it: “All those nights of feeling like he couldn’t breathe, wanted to give a different life to us. I get to claim it, he gets to smother.” Williams rich vocals hold sorrow and longing, and the album promises to be one of this year’s favorites.

From the first-line echo of the original coal miner’s daughter Loretta Lynn, this song pays homage to a succession of coal mining forebears and talks about living life in the shadow of the harrowing vocation—how it comes to bear on the body, the spirit, and the people making a home in fraught yet beloved coal country. ‘But these are the only ones that watch us ripe and rot / and hold the bones of both our living and our dead,’ references the coal-rich Central Appalachian mountains, beneath which the people both toil and find their final resting place, and it borrows from a line in Shakespeare’s As You Like It: ‘And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe / And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot.’ — Tiffany Williams