Hailing from the mountains of the Big Ivy Creek Valley (on unceded Tsalaguwetiyi land), Mother Marrow is the musical project of Charity Cimarron (they/them).

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Mother Marrow is a dark, ritualistic, neo-folk expression, born out of a deep love of the natural world, and an intimate understanding of the magical process of transmuting pain into belonging. Striving towards beauty and truth, music as a communal sacrament is the thread that is always running through this work.

 

The sound of Mother Marrow is elemental and powerful, with deep drones, complex acoustic finger-picking, trance-inducing melodies, and strident vocals, calling up tears or sending shivers down your spine.  Bewitching and poignant, Mother Marrow's music and imagery channel the voices of the elements, and the beings that dwell between, beneath and beyond. A musical journey into the depths...these tunes have teeth and tenderness.

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Mother Marrow started out as Charity Cimarron's solo project, Rusalka, and multi-instrumentalist, Devin Morgan Crow, joined the picture in 2017. The project matured into a 4-piece indie folk ensemble for the 2019 recording of their full-length album, "Sweat & Splinters". Emmalee Hunnicutt (of Mountain Bitters), with expressive, emotional cello, and Matt Shepard (Coconut Cake) joined on drums. 

 

"Sweat & Splinters" is a powerful, modern folk recording with haunting vocal harmonies, folk-style finger picking on guitar and banjo, swooping cello, and driving drums, with lyrics that can call up tears, or send shivers down your spine. 

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