Big Harp Announces First New Album in Over a Decade on Saddle Creek

Fifteen years have passed since Big Harp’s debut album White Hat, and over a decade since the 2015 release of Waveless, the third—and, it seemed from the outside, final—Big Harp record. Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney—the married parents of two who have been the core of the band Big Harp essentially since they met two decades ago—are music lifers. They met on the road in 2007, and a month later, they accidentally moved to California together, got married, had their first kid, and then started Big Harp. Drootin has since continued to tour relentlessly with the likes of The Good Life, Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst, Azure Ray, She & Him, and M. Ward, and Senseney never stopped writing songs in their Los Angeles home. 

 

Today’s single, “I Got an Itch,” was one of the last songs to be written and recorded for Runs to Blue. It is a snapshot in the life of a couple whose relationship began with song and remains bound to it, no matter how long they stepped back. Runs to Blue is an honest collection of experiences set to unadorned tunes you can sing and keep with you always, little reminders of the past to guide you into the unknown that’s up ahead.