Tony Vacation is proud to announce the discharge of his new album, Preserve Your Head Up, produced by Eric Corne. The brand new file is out right this moment through Forty Beneath Data. Order HERE
Tony Vacation has been on the heart of a Memphis soul-blues revival anchored by a contingent of younger, savvy, well-schooled musicians with a “family-like” angle and a robust perception in each other. Over the previous few years, He’s been touring onerous, taking spells in between to put in writing and file with Producer Eric Corne in Memphis and Los Angeles. The result’s this new album, Preserve Your Head Up. The album demonstrates a powerful command of types, as Vacation leads his band fluidly by way of Texas, Chicago, and hill nation blues with loads of Memphis soul and even a contact of Afrobeat.
Over the previous couple of years, Vacation has been touring onerous, taking spells in between to put in writing and file with Producer Eric Corne in Memphis and Los Angeles. And all that onerous work has come to fruition, Preserve Your Head Up, is an album that covers an amazing quantity of territory over eight pithy tracks.
The album opens with the Freddie King traditional “She’s A Burglar,” a gripping Texas Blues that includes good pal Eddie 9V on lead guitar and sharing vocal duties. Subsequent is the extreme Chicago blues flavored “Twist My Destiny,” written by Corne, that includes Vacation’s stellar harmonica work and shared vocal duties from the incomparable Kevin Burt.
Vacation and Corne flip “A Lady Named Hassle” on its head with a captivating Afrobeat taste, together with a riveting trumpet solo by occasional E Streeter Mark Pender earlier than locking into some greasy Memphis soul compliments of normal collaborator AJ Fullerton on “Good Instances.”
Laura Chavez, final 12 months’s Blues Music Award winner for ‘Guitarist of the Yr’ turns in a superb efficiency on the soulful, horn-laden “Shoulda Identified Higher” earlier than the album shifts to a contemporary tackle hill nation blues with “Stroll On The Water,” written by Corne who additionally sings a bluegrass type concord all through, including a singular taste to the observe.
Fan favourite Albert Castiglia joins Vacation with some spirited guitar and vocals on the playful Snooks Eaglin traditional “Drive It Residence,” and Vacation reveals why he’s one of many most interesting harmonica gamers on the scene right this moment, regardless of electing to not play the instrument on over half the songs on the album.
The file closes with an excellent shock, a bittersweet nation soul Americana tune known as “I Can Not Really feel The Rain,” written by Vacation with assist from Corne and Jad Tariq, who performs the position of Steve Cropper all through this file.
Tony is at the moment receiving airplay on Sirius XM Bluesville, and there’s been no scarcity of reward; Blues Blast declared, “Mixing Memphis soul with Texas blues, Chicago blues, a touch of blues-rock, and a touch of hill nation blues, ” Vacation has crafted a contemporary sound but rooted firmly within the Nineteen Sixties. It’s a superb mash-up of genres that is still true soul-blues”, Blues Rock Overview opined that it’s “A strong, participating file that reinforces Vacation’s promising standing in right this moment’s blues scene.” and Blues Issues put it succinctly “Preserve Your Head Up is an album of eight items of musical gold.”
Mentored by previous legends, Vacation and his free Memphis collective of musicians have constructed on town’s wealthy traditions and carried them ahead. There’s one thing about Tony Vacation that pulls folks collectively; The group has been on the core of Vacation’s profession. Since relocating from Salt Lake Metropolis to Memphis in 2017, Vacation has been on the heart of a soul blues revival, anchored by a contingent of younger, savvy, well-schooled musicians with a robust perception in each other.
Motel Mississippi, Vacation’s final launch and second solo album (2023), was recorded an hour outdoors Memphis in Coldwater, Mississippi, at Zebra Ranch, the studio of the late nice Memphis legend Jim Dickinson (The Rolling Stones, Huge Star). Combining the sounds of North Mississippi Hill Nation, Delta Blues, and Memphis soul, Motel Mississippi is equal components hypnotic blues, driving soul, and juke joint stomper.
2020’s Soul Service was earlier than Motel Mississippi, which adopted two volumes of Tony Vacation’s Porch Classes. The Porch Classes noticed Vacation touring throughout america and all through Europe, recording blues musicians on their very personal entrance porches, in entrance of juke joints, within the countryside, and even on the entrance stoops of raucous night time spots in bustling cities, leading to two critically acclaimed albums. The visitor checklist struck a steadiness between older legends like Grammy® winners Charlie Musselwhite and Bobby Rush, former Muddy Waters guitarist John Primer, and the long-lasting Lurie Bell, alongside a few of Vacation’s friends, Southern Avenue, Victor Wainwright, and John Németh. The latter two have been important mentors for Vacation since his transfer to Memphis.
Watch Tony Vacation’s “Twist my Destiny” on YouTube (It is without doubt one of the tracks in his simply launched album)
Tour Dates
4/19 KO Ossenisse Netherlands T Schallemaaj4/20 RL Helmond Netherlands Lokaal424/21 GE Hilversum Netherlands The Skiff4/23 Bratislava Slovakia Museum of Commerce Bratislava5/3 Salt Lake Metropolis Utah The State Room5/9 West Memphis Arkansas Southland Casino5/10 Memphis Tennessee Hernando’s Hideway5/11 Newport Kentucky Mansion Hill5/16 Blawnox Pennsylvania Moondogs5/17 Scarborough Maine The Brickhouse5/19 Rockland Maine Rock Harbor Brewing Co.5/22 Elkton Maryland Elkton5/23 Hammondsport New York Stueben Brewing5/24 Lima New York Fanatics7/24 Durham North Carolina The Blue Observe Grill7/26 Newport Kenturcky Mansion Hill Blues Festival11/8 Ivins Utah Southern Utah Blues Competition
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