The earthy, literate folk-rock of Cornwall-based outfit Red River Dialect grew out of a 2010 solo project by Welsh singer/songwriter David Morris. In the years that followed, Morris' poetic acoustic missives were expanded to varying degrees by a nimble five-piece band on albums like 2012's awellupontheway and 2018's pastoral Broken Stay Open Sky. The latter of those two was released by American indie Paradise of Bachelors, which helped introduce Red River Dialect's peculiar gifts to a Stateside audience. Their fifth album, Abundance Welcoming Ghosts, appeared a year later.

Drawing on the dramatic seaside geography of his native town of Falmouth, Morris self-released his pastoral, largely acoustic debut White Diamonds in 2010. The first proper release as a full band arrived two years later in 2012 with the well-received awellupontheway, which garnered comparisons to the Waterboys, the Dirty Three, Fairport Convention, and Nick Cave. It also gained them some influential new fans in M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), who went on to champion the band. Red River Dialect's acoustic-oriented third album, 2015's critically acclaimed Tender Gold Gentle Blue, harkened back to the more bucolic sound of Morris' debut and was largely informed by the death of his father. During a subsequent U.K. tour opening for American singer/songwriter Joan Shelley, Morris began woodshedding the contemplative new material that would comprise the band's follow-up. Released in January 2018, Broken Stay Open Sky also marked their first official release for U.S. label Paradise of Bachelors, which had helped distribute their previous LP. Over the coming months, the band continued to gel around Morris' thoughtful narratives and in August of that year, they recorded a lively batch of songs during a four-day span in Southwest Wales, mere weeks before their leader was scheduled to take a nine-month Buddhist meditation retreat in Nova Scotia. The record, Abundance Welcoming Ghosts, featured guest vocals from former tourmate Joan Shelley, as well as guitar work from Tara Jane O'Neil. It was released in September 2019, a few months after Morris' return to the U.K. ~ Timothy Monger, Rovi