[Cover photo credit to Eli Smith]

NYC vocalist Tamar Korn and Brooklyn singer/songwriter Kyle Morgan (aka Starcrossed Losers) have teamed up for Darkening Green, an album of acoustic duets, featuring songs by Leonard Cohen, the Carter Family, Gillan Welch and David Rawlings, Iris Dement, the Platters, and two originals from Morgan, that comes out August 15, 2025 on Jalopy Records.

They recently released the single “Life’s Railway To Heaven,” a song that comes from the repertoire of Patsy Cline, whose rendition first caught their ear, and was also sung by Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, Bill Monroe, and Merle Haggard.

It was one of the first songs that the duo sang together, immediately recognizing something special.

Morgan says:

Even within that song, we’re waxing and waning, and that’s one of my favorite feelings, is when you can really lock in harmonically, but then also kind of play against each other.

A Brooklyn Folk Fest favorite, the California-born Korn is known for singing early Jazz and Roots music, and also performs Yiddish songs.

Morgan grew up in an evangelical Christian church in central Pennsylvania. Morgan’s previous album, 2022’s Younger at Most Everything came out via Team Love Records.

In William Blake’s poem “The Echoing Green”, “darkening green” signifies “the end of the day, the fading of youthful joy, and the approach of night or old age.” This is in contrast with the earlier “echoing green,” which symbolizes “the vibrant, lively childhood and springtime of life.”

Morgan says of the album:

There is a general autumnal feeling to this record, a sense of time passing, impermanence and the sad acceptance of the inevitability of loss which I think Blake’s phrase perfectly encapsulates.