Dear MariBella & The Pigkickers, a young sibling band out of Hampstead, NC, have a new original single released last week.
Sin Eater is a somewhat haunting, but up-tempo bluegrass ballad that tells the plight of a poor, marginalized individual in historical cultures, particularly in Britain and Appalachia in the 17th through the 19th centuries, who would ritually consume a meal, often bread and ale, placed on a corpse. This act was believed to absorb the deceased’s sins, allowing their soul to pass to the afterlife without the burden of sin. The sin eater was then shunned by the community, seen as taking on the evil they purged. The practice or ritual is thought to be from Welsh culture.
In this new single, penned by AnnMari and Isabella Trakimowicz, the Pigkickers tell the story and plight of the sin eater “drinking the sins of those asleep, making promises you can’t keep. Sin eater, oh sin eater. Traveling this world alone and damned, reaching out with empty hands.”…