FIRST COLLABORATION WITH HUSBAND JEFFREY FOUCAULT PRESENTS A DARKLY
HOPEFUL, FIERCELY WISE COLLECTION CENTERED ON THE WORK OF LOSS AND
RETURN, ALIENATION AND HOMECOMING.
“Brilliant” (Pop Matters, Boston Globe) singer-songwriter Kris Delmhorst
marks two decades of a life in music with the release of 'The Wild,’ on
September 22.
The arc of the album describes "losing the path, finding the path:
losing your connection to your lover, to the muse, to your sense of
self, and dead reckoning the way back," says Delmhorst. The record
juxtaposes a wide open sonic template - dark washes of electric guitar
and pedal steel, bright layers of acoustic guitars underlined by cello
and keys - against lyrics that travel from deep melancholy to the joy of
inspiration and connection. Miles Davis famously said, "Music is the
space between the notes. It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you
don’t play,” and Delmhorst uses that philosophy to create an
uncluttered embrace of mystery and questioning.
‘The Wild’ is her first studio collaboration with her husband and fellow
songwriter Jeffrey Foucault (“Contemporary and timeless,” NY Times),
who co-produced and contributed lead guitars and backing vocals.
Additionally 'The Wild’ features Foucault’s rhythm section of bassist
Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T. Jones, Twinemen) and drummer Billy Conway
(Morphine, Treat Her Right), veteran players and longtime associates in
the course of Delmhorst's career. The result is an album that brings
together all the threads of a life in music, and a rare intimacy between
players. Of the process of recording with such a close-knit group,
Delmhorst reflects, “The best moments in the studio are the ones that
feel like a bunch of kids working on a sandcastle, with a dead serious
teamwork devoted to something that's essentially play.” Delmhorst and
Foucault will tour together in the fall of 2017, taking turns fronting
the band, and playing on each other’s sets in a rare confluence of the
two respected artists’ paths.
‘The Wild’s highlights include the darkly rollicking Americana of “All
The Way Around,” an urgent, simmering meditation on the poles of loss
and return; the searching, Faces-inflected “Rules To Games”; and the
uptempo longing of “Foolish Blood," reminiscent of Wildflowers-era Tom
Petty.
Title track “The Wild” explores the animal self buried under the
detritus and nonsense of culture, a haunting lament for what we've lost,
both inside and out. “I Don’t Need to Know It All” celebrates the
elemental mystery of existence. “We have a whole lot of data at our
disposal, and all of it adds up to no more than a rickety little raft on
which we attempt to ride a vast, deep sea of things beyond our ability
to understand.” The closer, “The Light In The Hall,” ends with an eye to
the road forward, making an elegiac plea to stay awake to life and
everything it brings.
All Music said, “Captivating and very intriguing… This artist is subtle
in her approach with music that comes up behind you and a voice that
breathes through the speakers.”
Tour Dates (all double-bills with Jeffrey Foucault):
October 20 - Stone Mt Arts Center - Brownfield ME
October 21 - Once Ballroom - Somerville MA
October 22 - Higher Ground - Burlington VT
October 25 - Gypsy Sally’s - Washington DC
October 26 - Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 – New York, NY
October 28 - Shea Theater - Turners Falls, MA
November 2 - Ballard Homestead – Seattle, WA
November 4 - Old Church – Portland, OR
November 7 - Arcata Players Theater – Arcata, CA
November 8 - Palms Playhouse – Winters, CA
November 9 - Freight & Salvage – Berkeley, CA
November 10 - Don Quixotes – Felton, CA
November 11- McCabe’s - Santa Monica, CA
November 12 – Soho - Santa Barbara, CA
December 1 – The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI
December 2 - Seven Steps Up - Spring Lake, MI
December 3 - City Winery - Chicago, IL
December 5 - CSPS - Cedar Rapids, IA
December 7 - Cedar Cultural Center - Minneapolis, MN
December 8 - Stoughton Opera House - Stoughton, WI (Madison area)
December 9 - Collectivo - Milwaukee, WI
‘The Wild’ Track Listing
1. All The Way Around
2. Temporary Existence
3. The Wild
4. Rules to Games
5. I Don’t Need To Know It All
6. Magnolia
7. Color of the Sky
8. Foolish Blood
9. Lonely West
10. Hollow
11. Tracks in the Snow
12. The Light in the Hall
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Monday, July 24, 2017
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
SIGNATURE SOUNDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL PERFORMANCES SET FOR AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION FESTIVAL SEPT 17
Signature Sounds – one of the leading folk and Americana labels that is
celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2015 – will be feted during the
Americana Music festivals this year. The showcase lineup shows the
diversity of an impressive roster from indie rock to string band music
and from western Americana to the northeast songwriters of the label’s
origins. Stream 'Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Favorite
and Rarities from the Second Decade’ at Billboard: http://www.billboard.com/
Thursday, September 17 – Americana Music Festival – City Winery - Nashville, TN
8:00 PM - Pine Hill Project (Featuring Richard Shindell & Lucy Kaplansky) : https://pinehillproject.
"A joy from start to finish...They bring revelatory grace to the late David Carter’s ‘Farewell to Saint Dolores,’ possibly the best performance on an album filled with masterful singing and playing from all involved." - Pop Matters
9:00 PM - Eilen Jewell: https://eilenjewell.bandcamp.
"Packed with vivid lyrics, steel guitars, and hot licks, Jewell’s Americana-driven brand of country music sounds tailor-made for sweltering, stagnant summer nights." – Eric Renner Brown, Entertainment Weekly
10:00 PM - Dustbowl Revival: https://soundcloud.com/
"In a city like Los Angeles, home to musical stars in nearly every known genre, handing out the Best Live Band title is not easy. But the free-thinking local collective Dustbowl Revival's upbeat, old-school, All-American sonic safaris exemplify everything shows should be: hot, spontaneous, engaging and, best of all, a pleasure to hear. " - LA Weekly
11:00 PM - Miss Tess & The Talkbacks: https://misstesssongs.
"I don’t know of anyone else right now touring in the Americana scene that has such an eclectic, jazzy, old school and interesting vibe. There’s an authenticity present in Miss Tess’ music. She is real. And she is rare." - No Depression
12:00 AM - Jeffrey Foucault: https://jeffreyfoucault.
“One of our most truly poetic songwriters… Foucault’s singing is almost nakedly human in that he invariably reaches for the most open honesty of his feeling… The inherent warmth of his throaty delivery tempers the occasional strangeness of his poetic lyric, and invites you into its possibilities…” - No Depression
Thursday, September 17 – Americana Music Festival – City Winery - Nashville, TN
8:00 PM - Pine Hill Project (Featuring Richard Shindell & Lucy Kaplansky) : https://pinehillproject.
"A joy from start to finish...They bring revelatory grace to the late David Carter’s ‘Farewell to Saint Dolores,’ possibly the best performance on an album filled with masterful singing and playing from all involved." - Pop Matters
9:00 PM - Eilen Jewell: https://eilenjewell.bandcamp.
"Packed with vivid lyrics, steel guitars, and hot licks, Jewell’s Americana-driven brand of country music sounds tailor-made for sweltering, stagnant summer nights." – Eric Renner Brown, Entertainment Weekly
10:00 PM - Dustbowl Revival: https://soundcloud.com/
"In a city like Los Angeles, home to musical stars in nearly every known genre, handing out the Best Live Band title is not easy. But the free-thinking local collective Dustbowl Revival's upbeat, old-school, All-American sonic safaris exemplify everything shows should be: hot, spontaneous, engaging and, best of all, a pleasure to hear. " - LA Weekly
11:00 PM - Miss Tess & The Talkbacks: https://misstesssongs.
"I don’t know of anyone else right now touring in the Americana scene that has such an eclectic, jazzy, old school and interesting vibe. There’s an authenticity present in Miss Tess’ music. She is real. And she is rare." - No Depression
12:00 AM - Jeffrey Foucault: https://jeffreyfoucault.
“One of our most truly poetic songwriters… Foucault’s singing is almost nakedly human in that he invariably reaches for the most open honesty of his feeling… The inherent warmth of his throaty delivery tempers the occasional strangeness of his poetic lyric, and invites you into its possibilities…” - No Depression
Thursday, February 19, 2015
AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION’S JED HILLY ON SIGNATURE SOUNDS’ 20TH ANNIVERSARY: “THE KIND OF STUFF THAT WILL LAST FOR GENERATIONS”
COLLABORATIONS YIELD UNEXPECTED FRIEND FOR SIGNATURE SOUNDS FAMILY AS NEW RARITIES DISC COMES OUT NEXT MONTH
"This is the kind of stuff that will last for generations,” said Americana Music Association head Jed Hilly said of Signature Sounds, introducing a set from the 20th anniversary concerts in person in November.
'Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Favorite and Rarities from the Second Decade’ is out March 3 and it hangs together as an album and a 19-track survey of the best of recent Americana music. One of the unique aspects of this label is in its collaborations between label-mates and between Signature Sounds artists and their peers—and a willingness on Jim Olsen’s part to follow his artists’ muses in whatever direction that might lead. Signature Sounds is a tight community.
Sweet & Lowdown is a Brooklyn-based collaboration between Rachael Price of Lake Street Dive, the band that led 2014 to be Signature Sounds’ most successful year to date, and Miss Tess & The Talkbacks. Together, they sing soulful versions of country, rockabilly, rhythm & blues, and western swing standards. Even while Lake Street Dive entered the Billboard top 20, Sweet & Lowdown has continued to gig in NYC. “Violent Love” from ‘Favorite and Rarities’ is a swinging rhythm & blues performance and fun example of two powerhouse vocalists in cahoots.
The Sacred Shakers offer the standard “Samson & Delilah.” Take Eilen Jewell and her band, add four members to double the size, and insert a repertoire of gospel songs and you have the Shake Shakers.
Meanwhile, Shelburne Falls, MA couple and Signature Sounds label-mates Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault offer the previously unreleased track “If This Ain't Heaven.” Diffuser.FM premiered it, saying, “Delmhorst’s gorgeous vocals are backed with Foucault’s soothing guitar work, espousing the sentiments we wish we could feel all the time."
Heather Maloney recorded an EP with fellow Massachusetts musicians in the band Darlingside on the hypnotic music set to handclaps and Maloney’s drop-dead stunning vocals and songwriting. Murmurs were heard in the lobby of the 20th anniversary shows that Maloney may be a future star.
One Signature Sounds band actually grew out of the staff itself, as Winterpills is partly made up of Signature Sound employees Flora Reed and Philip Price. The Wild Honey Pie debuted a previously unreleased track by the band, saying, “'A Tree In The Lung’ is a soothing whisper of harmonies paired with a fresh upbeat-tempo, and the ebb and flow falls nothing short of hypnotizing and charming. The verses beautifully echo themselves but never feel like lyrical fillers."
"This is the kind of stuff that will last for generations,” said Americana Music Association head Jed Hilly said of Signature Sounds, introducing a set from the 20th anniversary concerts in person in November.
'Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Favorite and Rarities from the Second Decade’ is out March 3 and it hangs together as an album and a 19-track survey of the best of recent Americana music. One of the unique aspects of this label is in its collaborations between label-mates and between Signature Sounds artists and their peers—and a willingness on Jim Olsen’s part to follow his artists’ muses in whatever direction that might lead. Signature Sounds is a tight community.
Sweet & Lowdown is a Brooklyn-based collaboration between Rachael Price of Lake Street Dive, the band that led 2014 to be Signature Sounds’ most successful year to date, and Miss Tess & The Talkbacks. Together, they sing soulful versions of country, rockabilly, rhythm & blues, and western swing standards. Even while Lake Street Dive entered the Billboard top 20, Sweet & Lowdown has continued to gig in NYC. “Violent Love” from ‘Favorite and Rarities’ is a swinging rhythm & blues performance and fun example of two powerhouse vocalists in cahoots.
The Sacred Shakers offer the standard “Samson & Delilah.” Take Eilen Jewell and her band, add four members to double the size, and insert a repertoire of gospel songs and you have the Shake Shakers.
Meanwhile, Shelburne Falls, MA couple and Signature Sounds label-mates Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault offer the previously unreleased track “If This Ain't Heaven.” Diffuser.FM premiered it, saying, “Delmhorst’s gorgeous vocals are backed with Foucault’s soothing guitar work, espousing the sentiments we wish we could feel all the time."
Heather Maloney recorded an EP with fellow Massachusetts musicians in the band Darlingside on the hypnotic music set to handclaps and Maloney’s drop-dead stunning vocals and songwriting. Murmurs were heard in the lobby of the 20th anniversary shows that Maloney may be a future star.
One Signature Sounds band actually grew out of the staff itself, as Winterpills is partly made up of Signature Sound employees Flora Reed and Philip Price. The Wild Honey Pie debuted a previously unreleased track by the band, saying, “'A Tree In The Lung’ is a soothing whisper of harmonies paired with a fresh upbeat-tempo, and the ebb and flow falls nothing short of hypnotizing and charming. The verses beautifully echo themselves but never feel like lyrical fillers."
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