Tony Vacation is proud to announce the discharge of his new album, Maintain Your Head Up, produced by Eric Corne. The brand new report is out right this moment by way of 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 laborious, taking spells in between to put in writing and report with Producer Eric Corne in Memphis and Los Angeles. The result’s this new album, Maintain Your Head Up. The album demonstrates a powerful command of kinds, as Vacation leads his band fluidly by means 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 laborious, taking spells in between to put in writing and report with Producer Eric Corne in Memphis and Los Angeles. And all that tough work has come to fruition, Maintain Your Head Up, is an album that covers an amazing quantity of territory over eight pithy tracks.
The album opens with the Freddie King basic “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 Girl Named Bother” on its head with an enchanting 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 Occasions.”
Laura Chavez, final 12 months’s Blues Music Award winner for ‘Guitarist of the Yr’ turns in a wonderful efficiency on the soulful, horn-laden “Shoulda Recognized 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 model concord all through, including a novel taste to the monitor.
Fan favourite Albert Castiglia joins Vacation with some spirited guitar and vocals on the playful Snooks Eaglin basic “Drive It House,” and Vacation reveals why he’s one of many best 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 report closes with a superb shock, a bittersweet nation soul Americana tune referred to as “I Can Not Really feel The Rain,” written by Vacation with assist from Corne and Jad Tariq, who performs the function of Steve Cropper all through this report.
Tony is at present 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 splash of blues-rock, and a touch of hill nation blues, ” Vacation has crafted a contemporary sound but rooted firmly within the Sixties. It’s a wonderful mash-up of genres that continues to be true soul-blues”, Blues Rock Overview opined that it’s “A strong, participating report that reinforces Vacation’s promising standing in right this moment’s blues scene.” and Blues Issues put it succinctly “Maintain Your Head Up is an album of eight items of musical gold.”
Mentored by previous legends, Vacation and his unfastened Memphis collective of musicians have constructed on town’s wealthy traditions and carried them ahead. There’s one thing about Tony Vacation that attracts individuals 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 exterior Memphis in Coldwater, Mississippi, at Zebra Ranch, the studio of the late nice Memphis legend Jim Dickinson (The Rolling Stones, Massive 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 Periods. The Porch Periods 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 evening spots in bustling cities, leading to two critically acclaimed albums. The visitor record struck a stability between older legends like Grammy® winners Charlie Musselwhite and Bobby Rush, former Muddy Waters guitarist John Primer, and the enduring 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 among the tracks in his simply launched album)
Tour Dates
4/19 KO Ossenisse Netherlands T Schallemaaj
4/20 RL Helmond Netherlands Lokaal42
4/21 GE Hilversum Netherlands The Skiff
4/23 Bratislava Slovakia Museum of Commerce Bratislava
5/3 Salt Lake Metropolis Utah The State Room
5/9 West Memphis Arkansas Southland On line casino
5/10 Memphis Tennessee Hernando’s Hideway
5/11 Newport Kentucky Mansion Hill
5/16 Blawnox Pennsylvania Moondogs
5/17 Scarborough Maine The Brickhouse
5/19 Rockland Maine Rock Harbor Brewing Co.
5/22 Elkton Maryland Elkton
5/23 Hammondsport New York Stueben Brewing
5/24 Lima New York Fanatics
7/24 Durham North Carolina The Blue Notice Grill
7/26 Newport Kenturcky Mansion Hill Blues Pageant
11/8 Ivins Utah Southern Utah Blues Pageant
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