Grey DeLisle – The Pieces
The LA-based, Grammy-winning artist and legendary voice actor Grey DeLisle is back with a new single, “The Pieces,” and it leans fully into a kind of slow-burning, soulful longing that sticks with you long after it ends.
Written from the perspective of long-distance love stretched just a little too thin, “The Pieces” sits in that quiet tension between holding on and letting go.
The song is a first look at her upcoming collaborative album Grey & Greene, out June 5 via Hummin’bird Records, recorded with LA soul showman Les Greene. The record pairs Grey’s Americana roots with Greene’s deep well of soul, R&B, and rock n’ roll, landing somewhere timeless enough that it feels pulled from another era entirely.
Produced by rockabilly veteran James Intveld, Grey & Greene plays like a warm antidote to the hyper-digital moment we’re all living in, something real, tactile, and unmistakably human. Across the album, the two trade off vocal duties, blending classic country, soul, and Brill Building pop, and even closing things out with a barn-burning cover of “You’re the One That I Want.”
The new album from Grey DeLisle and Les Greene, Grey & Greene, comes to us just at the right time. When we seem to be subsisting on a diet of existential dread and an unsettling new AI song popping up every day on Spotify, this warm and vibrant slice of real, flesh and blood rock n’ soul is a balm to our battered ears (and psyches). Listening to it, you can practically picture the vintage equipment used to capture its sound. Even the cover art feels delightfully out of time, ensuring that future music fans might stumble upon it and marvel that it came from 2026 rather than 1956.
Grey & Greene was produced by rockabilly veteran James Intveld, with songs written by Americana/alt-country star Grey DeLisle (with three co-written by Intveld), and showcases the vocal talents of DeLisle and Les Greene, who DeLisle befriended in 2024 when they did a Christmas song together called “I Don’t Want Nothing” that sparked a desire to collaborate further. Some folks know Greene from his incendiary vocals as Little Richard in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, or from his captivating performances on American Idol’s Season 16, but his bread and butter is his own Les Greene and the Swayzees. This high-octane outfit bring their own take on soul and R&B-flavored rock n’ roll with performances that regularly leave audiences with jaws dropped, in a daze from Greene’s otherworldly talent.
Pairing that powerhouse with Americana’s Sweetheart DeLisle guarantees something special. The duo trade off vocal duties throughout the record on tracks like “Shake That Thing,” “Go Go Go,” and “Home Wrecker,” the latter a clever reimagining of DeLisle’s 2006 classic. Here, Greene steps into the title role, reimagining the character as a “devil in some tight leather,” in place of the original vixen who was a “devil in a tight sweater.”
The flavors of classic country, rockabilly, soul, and Brill Building pop create something for everybody, and one can easily imagine DeLisle & Greene’s set at Stagecoach and Coachella, the Grand Ol’ Opry and South x Southwest, Boots in the Park and your local hipster bar jukebox. We all wanna shake that thang, and DeLisle and Greene give us the infectious inspiration to do it—even sending us off with a barn-burning cover of the Grease classic “You’re the One That I Want.”
There are tender moments as well. Ballads like “I’m Gonna Let You Call Me Baby,” “Mariposa,” (featuring Deke Dickerson on guitar) and “That’s All” allow the beauty and uniqueness of these voices to shine. Anyone nursing a recent heartbreak might want to skip “That’s All”—or, alternatively, put it on endless repeat. Greene’s gorgeous, desperate pleas are the perfect showcase for those remarkable pipes. Put on the big headphones, shed a tear or two… then come back for more of the thang-shaking, because Grey & Greene may have just become the soundtrack of your summer.
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