Cranes "Wings Of Joy" sountrack ” Best Country Album) and

” Best Country Album) and 2014 ACM Album of the Year

the woods are a refuge and New York City serves as the same gleaming beacon as Oz

which serves not only to mark the tenth anniversary of a great album

but he makes no bones about his ultimate intent: "I want to move people to dance and cry at the same time

guttural talk-singing

Cranes "Wings Of Joy" sountrack ” Best Country Album) andCranes is a dream pop shoegaze band formed by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw. They had a modest start in the late 80s on Bite Back!, a label based in their hometown of Portsmouth on which they released a cassette and a 12' mini album. A bit later they would record a session for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show which led them to sign to Dedicated Records, home to influential acts such as Spiritualized, Chapterhouse, Global Communication, Hum and Beth Orton.