Bennie Hayfield - Home Again/Alone Again 
Release Date: 14th November 2026
The prolific Bennie Hayfield returns with a cheeky five track EP of new material under the title 'Home Again/Alone Again'. All tracks were recorded in one afternoon and the first offering, 'First Rainfall', has a brilliantly Appalachian vibe with a lazy harmonica and deftly plucked acoustic strings setting the scene for the rest of the EP. Up next is 'We've Got Today', a heavy-hearted song lifted only by the lightness of the finger picking and Hayfield's Dylan-as-a-young-man vocals.
On 'Distance (Makes The Heart Grow Fonder)', the lo-fi style of this EP really shines through with Hayfield telling his stories into a microphone while his hands keep busy strumming the chords to draw the line between music and poetry. Now, 'Rainbow Connection' is apparently a cover of a Kermit the Frog song and it is a lush slice of hope in a hopeless world with all the innocence and purity you'd expect from a frog puppet. Unusually for a closing track this fifth song has the title 'Intro A/Folksinger' but this is a nod to a forthcoming album, I'm told, and it's a delicious nod as Hayfield lays down his plan for the future no matter what comes his way. I'd wager 99% of A&R folk would pass on this EP as it is so lo-fi and almost subdued but as part of the cannon that is the Bennie Hayfield catalogue it is a beautiful interlude of songs that give you the comforting feeling of knowing good songwriters are still out there plying their trade.
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