After greater than twenty years on the helm of Previous Crow Drugs Present, Grammy Award-winning frontman Ketch Secor is putting out on his personal with the discharge of his debut solo album, Story The Crow Instructed Me, out now by way of Equal Housing Data/Firebird Music.
Recorded at his very personal Hartland Studios in Nashville and co-written and co-produced with Jody Stevens (Luke Bryan, Jake Owen), the 12-track assortment is each a love letter and a lived-in memoir of Secor’s 25 years in Music Metropolis. The album blends a lifetime of musical storytelling with a solid of notable collaborators, together with Molly Tuttle, Marty Stuart, Jaren Johnston (The Cadillac Three), and Previous Crow alumni Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson.
Identified for his potential to channel the previous via a recent lens, Secor brings his signature mix of roots, nation, and people to life on the album—taking part in practically a dozen devices himself and co-writing each music. Story The Crow Instructed Me is an intimate, reflective, and at occasions whimsical journey via considered one of Nashville’s most enduring artistic spirits.
To accompany the album, Secor additionally launched the official video for its emotional nearer, “What Nashville Was”—a shifting tribute to our metropolis and its ever-changing panorama, that includes the incomparable Molly Tuttle and a lyrical nod to Bob Dylan and Johnny Money’s “Woman From the North Nation.”
“Perhaps it’s so simple as that,” Secor says of the observe. “I simply wished to sing one with Bob and Johnny… However this music can also be a few metropolis the place desires take flight or flounder… and in regards to the hope that anybody strumming on the foot of this ever-changing skyline will accomplish that with a spirit deserving of a spot as soulful as this one is.”
Watch the video for “What Nashville Was” above.
Along with a packed tour schedule with Previous Crow Drugs Present, Secor will hit the street this fall for his solo Story The Crow Instructed Me Tour, with newly introduced stops in Chicago, Annapolis, and Joe’s Pub in New York Metropolis on November 4. He’ll additionally be part of the Railroad Revival Tour in August as a part of an all-star “home band” alongside Mumford & Sons, Celisse, Chris Thile, Lucius, Madison Cunningham, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Trombone Shorty.
As if that weren’t sufficient, it was introduced this week that Secor will tackle a brand new function as host of the long-running PBS collection Tennessee Crossroads, starting with its thirty ninth season this September. Identified for celebrating the folks, locations, and tradition of the Volunteer State, the present reaches audiences throughout the Southeast and on-line nationwide. Secor can even helm Jaunts, this system’s digital companion collection.
“Tennessee is my dwelling, and with its ample cultural choices and regional distinctions, it has been my deepest properly of inspiration as an artist,” says Secor. “I’m honored to share my ardour and information of our state and study much more on this journey collectively. Let’s go!”
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Tracklist – Story The Crow Instructed Me:
Busker’s Spell
Talkin’ Doc Blues
Ghost Prepare
Dickerson Street
Previous Man River
Catch Me If You Can
Highland Rim (feat. Marty Stuart)
Junkin’
On The Wall
Thanks Once more
Holes In The Wall
What Nashville Was
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