Alicia Blue – Country Desire
Today, Nashville singer-songwriter Alicia Blue releases her debut album Country Desire, which is produced by 4x Grammy-winner Shooter Jennings.
Country Desire includes the previously released singles “Rose Of Tennessee”, “Backwards Again” and “Kentucky Cowboy.”
Country Desire navigates themes of longing, consequence and control in a blue-collar epic. After Shooter discovered Alicia’s early demos, he agreed to make the album after their first meeting, with no label and no budget. These sessions at Hollywood’s famed Sunset Sound studio pulled together powerhouse players including Jay Bellerose on drums (Alison Krauss, Robert Plant, Ray LaMontagne), Brian Whelan on keys and textures (Dwight Yoakam), Ted Russell Kamp on bass (Sturgill Simpson, Tanya Tucker) and Greg Leisz on pedal steel (Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton), alongside Alicia’s guitarist Alex Labrie, each one serving the songs rather than polishing them.
What came out is a record obsessed with desire — not as fantasy, but as a force that distorts, drives and dismantles. On its inspiration, Alicia shares, “I’d say a lifetime of parts of myself that came to the surface, that needed airtime, the spotlight, so they could stop sitting in the driver’s seat. Parts that wanted the rush of a poetic life, at the cost of personal power and stability.” The end result is a debut that already sounds lived-in, hard-won and mythic.
Hailing between the South Borderlands of Texas and the orange groves of Southern California, Alicia Blue is an artist whose voice carries a blue-collar directness shaped as much by mariachi and rancheras as by classic country.
Tour Dates:
August 28 – Nashville, TN – 3rd and Lindsley #
September 6 – New Braunfels, TX – Gruene Hall *
September 18 – Nashville, TN – ACME Feed & Seed (AMERICANAFEST)
October 1 – Brooklyn, NY – Skinny Dennis +
October 2 – Cambridge, MA – The Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub +
October 3 – Northampton, MA – The Parlor Room +
October 4 – Philadelphia, PA – MilkBoy +
October 14 – Louisville, KY – The Whirling Tiger +
October 15 – Nashville, TN – Eastside Bowl +
October 17 – Memphis, TN – Hernando’s Hideaway +
November 6 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Wayfarer +
November 7 – Los Angeles, CA – Gold-Diggers +
November 8 – Mill Valley, CA – Sweetwater Music Hall +
November 9 – Folsom, CA – Folsom Hotel +
# with Luella, Bronwyn
* with Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Marfa
+ with Robert Ellis
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