Suede & Lene – B.O.T.T.
SUEDE & ‘LENE – the Nashville-based band led by GRAMMY® Award-winning songwriter/producer Angelo Petraglia (Kings of Leon, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Taylor Swift) and powerhouse frontwoman Eulene Sherman – have shared their newest single, “B.O.T.T.,” a track they describe as “a love letter that sounds like it was written in a rent controlled haunt on Amsterdam Avenue in New York City.”
Infused with smooth harmonies and wailing saxophone, “B.O.T.T.” paints a picture of a wine-filled summer night with a lover while an album of love and loss is playing low in the background on the stereo. SUEDE & LENE’s Hymns For Lost Things comes out on June 20.
SUEDE & ‘LENE didn’t plan this. Not really. One minute, Angelo Petraglia, a seasoned Nashville songmaker and sonic architect known for his work with artists spanning Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, and Trisha Yearwood to Kim Richey, The Black Keys, and Peter Wolf, was firing off songs in the worn-in corner of their 100-year-old Nashville bungalow. The next, Eulene Sherman, a classically-trained singer, actor, and frontwoman with such acclaimed combos as The Jane Shermans, was weaving harmonies, basslines and melodies into the mix. It wasn’t a band yet – just the buzz of two people with too much music in their heads to ignore it.
But the songs wouldn’t stop. Coffee-fueled jam sessions turned into notebooks full of ideas. Somewhere along the way, the two New York City-born, Nashville transplants realized they weren’t just dabbling – they were building something special. Angelo and Eulene decided they wanted more. More sound, more voices, more dimension. A handpicked group of crack players were enlisted to flesh out their songs with the same deliberate care that birthed them, veteran musicians like 3x GRAMMY® Award winning mandolinist Sam Bush (New Grass Revival, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris) and pedal steel master Dan Dugmore (Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor). What had started as a loose idea snowballed into an epic recording spree.
“It was coming fast,” Petraglia says, “it was really flowing.”
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