Over the course of six beautiful albums in nearly 15 years, Elizabeth Mitchell has invited listeners to join her, husband Daniel Littleton, their daughter Storey, and other friends and relatives to become part of an extended musical family. On Blue Clouds, she raises her special kind of family-centric music to new heights by bringing clarity and beauty to a surprising range of songs, including covers of the Allman Brothers, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Ella Jenkins, Van Morrison, and Bill Withers. The liner notes feature illutrations by the late Remy Charlip and an essay by author Brian Selznick.

Free Download: Please enjoy a free MP3 or FLAC download of the title track “Blue Clouds.”

Amazon MP3 Discount: Download Blue Clouds for $5.99 and previous Elizabeth Mitchell albums for $4.99 through November 4 only!

• Sunday, October 28, 2012: Tricycle Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
• Saturday, November 3, 2012: Town Hall, Seattle, WA
• Sunday, November 4, 2012: The Village Ballroom, Portland, OR
• Friday, November 9, 2012: Grocery on Home, Atlanta, GA
• Saturday, November 10, 2012: Red Clay Theatre, Duluth, GA
• Sunday, November 11, 2012: Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA
• Sunday, November 18, 2012: Tarrytown Music Hall
  (co-headlining with Dan Zanes), Tarrytown, NY
• Saturday, December 8, 2012: One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME
• Sunday, December 9, 2012: RISD Auditorium, Providence, RI
• Saturday, December 15, 2012: Symphony Space, New York, NY

Our ongoing effort to reprint releases on vinyl with high-quality packaging and complete liner notes continues with four new titles:

	Roscoe Holcomb - Close to Home
	Dock Boggs - Vol. 2
	Cha Cha Shaw - Into Morning
	Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble

Subscriber Vinyl Discount: Enter code SFVINYL and save 20% off ALL Smithsonian Folkways vinyl through October 31.

Each month we’ll ask a trivia question; e-mail your answer, name, and address with the subject "October Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways@si.edu by October 31, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!

October Question: On Blue Clouds, Elizabeth Mitchell’s version of the Allman Brothers’ “Blue Sky” begins with a quote of Duane Allman’s instrumental song “Little Martha” as a tribute to the late guitarist. It’s rumored that Allman wrote the song upon waking from a dream in which what other legendary musician showed him how to play it using a sink faucet? (hint – Elizabeth Mitchell also performs one of the mystery musician’s songs on Blue Clouds.)

Congratulations to last month's winner, Richard from Sheffield, England, who correctly answered “Cuckoo Bird” aka “The Coo Coo” to the question: “What folk song has been recorded by countless artists (including Clarence Ashley, Ella Jenkins, Taj Mahal, The Everly Brothers, Pentangle, Jean Ritchie, Tom Rush, Hobart Smith, Doc Watson, and, most recently, Stephen Wade on Banjo Diary), perhaps because its deceptive simplicity allows it to "take flight" via creative interpretation?”

• Ella Jenkins earned the inaugural Hipsqueak Lifetime Achievement Award from TimeOut Chicago. Watch the video here.
• Watch the short film Some Crazy Magic: Meeting Harry Smith narrated by John Cohen of The New Lost City Ramblers.