Ghost Stories

Description

Sisters Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore, two of roots music’s most accomplished songwriter/instrumentalist/vocalists, released their first album together as The Whitmore Sisters in 2022.

Titled ‘Ghost Stories’, inspired by the loss of family, friends, ex-boyfriends and – on the title track- people who died by police violence. These ghosts chose to appear right as Covid became entrenched -when live music evaporated, and people were isolated from each other.

Bonnie, whose four solo albums are all state-of-a-real-woman’s-heart jewels, decided to join sister Eleanor and her husband Chris Masterson in their Los Angeles closed circle for a break. Chris, who’s recorded four albums with his wife as The Mastersons, saw the visit as an opportunity to issue a mandate: If Bonnie was coming, it was time for the sisters to make a record.

Not just an album, but “the album” – the musical inevitability that’s been simmering since a 22-year-old Eleanor was protecting her curly-headed 15-year-old sister at gigs in local bars. The Whitmore Sisters’ original songs, along with two covers – a song by their pal Aaron Lee Tasjan (“Big Heart Sick Mind” and “On the Wings of a Nightingale” (written by Paul McCartney for iconic siblings The Everly Brothers) – was produced by Chris Masterson and completes ‘Ghost Stories’.
1 Learn To Fly
2 The Ballad Of Sissy & Porter
3 Friends We Leave Behind
4 Hurtin\u2019 For A Letdown
5 Superficial World Of Love
1 Big Heart Sick Mind
2 Ghost Stories
3 Ricky
4 By Design
5 On The Wings Of A Nightingale
6 Greek Tragedy