The Secret Sisters, aka real-life sisters Laura Rogers and Lydia Slagle, announced a new album, Mind, Man, Medicine, due out on March 29 via New West Records. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s great Saturn Return, and the produced it with John Paul White and Ben Tanner. Ray LaMontagne features on “All The Ways,” and the sisters say, “Our fifth chapter is the one where we seek, savor, and settle. The muse found us in the depths of raising children, nurturing relationships, surviving a world-changing virus, bidding farewell, shifting our mindsets and discovering a sense of peace heretofore unseen. Our third decade of life has proven to be one of routine, rest, and realization, and these songs are about the lessons we’ve learned. We’ve learned to be space-holders and defenders of the people we hold close. We’ve learned from deep, steady love in various forms. We’ve learned to let go of people and perceptions and priorities that just didn’t make the cut as we weighed what is right and important and worth keeping. We’ve learned how all the things we’ve always treasured continue to withstand the pressure of time. If you notice an upward trend to the mood and emotions, you’re on target-we have found calm waters, for now.”
They’ve shared a new single, “Same Water,” a swaying folk/country waltz, which you can hear below. “Fresh off the stress of a worldwide pandemic and slowly entering into a more normal world, we wrote this song together on a wet afternoon in Nashville, trying to make sense of the ways we all choose to find healing, as a society and as individuals,” they say. “It felt important to acknowledge the struggle over our own choices in this area, and the need for extending empathy to people who choose differently.”
Secret Sisters have shows lined up in April and May, including stops in Austin, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago, Minneapolis, and more. See all dates below.
THE SECRET SISTERS – MIND, MAN, MEDICINE TRACKLIST
1. Space
2. Paperweight
3. If the World Was a House
4. All the Ways (feat. Ray LaMontagne)
5. Planted
6. Never Walk Away
7. I Needed You
8. Bear With Me
9. Same Water
10. I Can Never Be Without You Anymore
11. I’ve Got Your Back
THE SECRET SISTERS: 2024 TOUR DATES
April 4—Lafayette, LA—Acadiana Center for the Arts
April 5—Austin, TX—The 04 Center
April 6—Dallas, TX—The Kessler Theater
April 7—Houston, TX—The Heights Theater
April 26—Nashville, TN—The Basement East
April 27—Florence, AL—Shoals Theatre
May 17—Newport, KY—The Southgate House Revival
May 18—Chicago, IL—Old Town School of Folk Music
May 19—Minneapolis, MN—The Parkway Theater