Sunday, 8 June 2025

Jesse Daniel is the 'Son of the San Lorenzo' on new album

“...one of the premiere traditional country artists in the genre.” - Whiskey Riff

“...one of the best-kept secrets of neo-traditional country for many years.” - Country Central

June 6, 2025 – Rising country artist Jesse Daniel releases his new album SON OF THE SAN LORENZO via Lightning Rod Records.

Recorded live to tape at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville and featuring a collaboration with Charles Wesley Godwin, the 11-song collection offers up a candid accounting of Daniel’s remarkable journey, from his early years hitchhiking in the shadow of the Santa Cruz Mountains to his tumultuous adolescence and battles with addiction, to the people, and music, that ultimately saved his life. 

This summer, Daniel will traverse across continents with shows in Brazil, a tour through Europe, a West Coast run and his debut headline show at the legendary Texas institution Billy Bob’s. He’ll then make his way down to Nashville for AmericanaFest, and in October, will tour through Australia. Find a full list of tour dates below or visit his website

 “I wrote, arranged and produced this record myself,” shares Daniel. “I also took on much of the sonic direction, including percussion, rhythm and lead guitar, harmonies and more, which I think is a really important piece of the puzzle given how personal these songs are. I felt like I was finally ready to stop running and face things head on with this record. I felt like I’d matured enough to go deeper than I ever had before, to try and understand how I get here and where I’m headed.”

Daniel shared a series of pre-release singles including the nostalgic ‘Mountain Home’, which Wide Open Country lauded as “a warm and relaxing song that paints a beautifully vivid picture.” It followed the heartfelt reflection ‘Time Well Spent For A Man’ (ft. Charles Wesley Godwin) that earned a rave 9.1 review from Country Central who called it “beautiful” and the hopeful and soulful first single ‘My Time Is Gonna Come’, which garnered praise from American Songwriter, Whiskey Riff, Holler, All Country News and more.

Son of the San Lorenzo Stream/purchase HERE (preferred music platform) or listen below:
****   USE the Playlist play control 2nd left from top of the screen to see the playlisted..tracks and select one to play from the drop down menu  ***  👇




Top Tracks: Son of the San Lorenzo, He, Mountain Home, Crankster

Track List
Son of the San Lorenzo (Lightning Rod Records) 11 songs, 45:30
1) Child Is Born 4:24
2) Son of the San Lorenzo 4:53
3) He 4:03
4) The Ballad of Love Creek 5:47
5) One’s Too Many (And A Thousand Ain’t Enough) 4:05
6) Jodi 4:32
7) Mountain Home 3:08 **+ 62K streams (first released May 7, 2025)
8) Time Well Spent For A Man (feat. Charles Wesley Godwin) 3:37 478K streams written by Nick Foster (first released April 16, 2025)
9) Crankster 3:29
10) My Time Is Gonna Come 4:27 104K streams (first released March 26, 2025)
11) The End 2:59
All tracks written by Jesse Daniel except Track 8

He’s now an established, mainstay stalwart of the honky tonk touring circuit that you can set your watch and compass to, and that young up-and-comers now see as an influence……The best country music isn’t always just about the here and now. Sometimes it takes months, years, or even generations for the most important aspects of country music to reveal their strength and genius. Just as Jesse Daniel used country music to save his life and get him on the right path, he now uses the songs of Son of the San Lorenzo to project who he wants to be, and where he wants to go in the future. – RATING 8.2/10 SAVING COUNTRY MUSIC


Taking shape while he was on the road last year, the album expands on his sound in a way that wears its influences on its sleeve, from the California country of the Eagles and the Flying Burrito Brothers to classic rock like Led Zeppelin and the Allman Brothers. In addition to the Charles Wesley Godwin feature, it includes instrumentation from Charlie McCoy, Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Peter Keys and SteelDrivers banjo player Richard Bailey.

Last year marked a turning point for Daniel’s career, beginning with creating the theme song to comedian Dusty Slay’s Netflix special Workin’ Man that was released in January. He then released his critically-acclaimed album Countin’ The Miles which garnered praise from Billboard, Texas Monthly, Cowboys & Indians, Bandcamp, BrooklynVegan, Whiskey Riff, No Depression, Holler and many more. The album went on to debut in the top 30 on the Americana Radio Chart and led to a tour supporting Godwin. To close out the year, he released a duo of collaborative singles with Benjamin Tod which was followed by a co-headline tour.

Follow Jesse Daniel: Website - Instagram - Facebook - X - YouTube
Tour Dates: 
June 21 – Itajaí, Brazil @ The Ranch Truck
June 26 – Fort Worth, TX @ Billy Bob’s
June 27 – New Braunfels, TX @ Gruene Hall

UK DATE
Sun 6 July 2025 - Oslo Hackney, London (1A Amhurst Road Hackney, London E8 1LL) £28.13 (£25.00 + £3.13 Fees, excluding any delivery costs) 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM TICKETWEB

EUROPE
July 8 – Hamburg, Germany @ Nochtspeicher
July 9 – Groningen, Netherlands @ De Oosterpoort
July 10 – Utrecht, Netherlands @ TivoliVredenburg
July 11 – Lille, Belgium @ Sjock Festival 2025
July 12 – Breim, Norway @ Stiftinga Norsk Country Treff
July 14 – Gothenburg, Sweden @ Tradgarn 
July 16 – Köln, Germany @ Die Kantine
July 17 – Lichtenvoorde, Netherlands @ Zwarte Cross 2025
July 18 – Eging Am See, Germany @ Pullman City Western Town
July 19 – Rüti, Switzerland @ Marty Stables AG 
July 20 – Balzers, Liechtenstein @ Burg Gutenberg

Find a full list of tour dates below or visit his website

Mary Chapin Carpenter releases New Album PERSONAL HISTORY

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER’s NEW ALBUM PERSONAL HISTORY DROPS

June 6, 2025 — 
5x Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and performer Mary Chapin Carpenter dropped her new album Personal History on June 6, 2025.
The eleven-track collection, produced by Josh Kaufman and recorded live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath, England, is more autobiographical for the singer than any project she’s released before.

In early 2025 the 11-song collection was recorded at Real World Studios in Box, England, with Josh Kaufman (Bob Weir, The National, The Hold Steady) producing and a world-class band of musicians: Matt Rollings (piano, organ, accordion, xylophone), Duke Levine (electric  guitar, hammer dulcimer), Chris Vatalaro (drums, percussion), Cameron Ralston (bass), and Kaufman ( guitar, organ, harmonium, harmonica). Anais Mitchell lends harmonies to ‘Home Is A Song.’

Already receiving critical attention, UNCUT calls it a “late career highlight” and continues, “Mary Chapin Carpenter has struck a deep vein of mature singer-songwriting that recalls the way Emmylou Harris surpassed everything she had done before with 2000’s Red Dirt Girl,” while Music Row declares, “Acoustic strumming, harmonica and spare percussion set the mood for her smoky alto delivery…Marvellously listenable.”

Carpenter shares, “A novel that I’ve loved for years is My Name is Lucy Barton, written by Elizabeth Strout. There’s this moment where the main character is taking a creative writing course, and her teacher says to her, ‘You will only have one story. You will write your one story in many ways.’ I remember reading that line and taking an audible breath. In that moment, I said out loud to no one, ‘Oh, that’s what the songs are.’”

I started writing the songs on this album as the pandemic began winding down,” Carpenter recalled. “What Did You Miss pointed the way forward, with its final verse: ‘I’ve been writing it down / song by song / as a personal history.’ (I have been) imagining this collection of songs as memoir, and how the wisdom that comes with growing older becomes a north star, whether one is celebrating life’s joys or navigating life’s inevitable losses.

Personal History Stream/purchase HERE (preferred music platform) or listen below:
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An airy and reflective autobiographical 11-track even paced collection which showcases a journey of quality song writing craft

Top Tracks:
Home Is A Song” (feat. Anäis Mitchell) (first released May 14, 2025)
The Saving Things”, “Bitter Ender”, “What Did You Miss”, “Paint + Turpentine

Personal History Track List:
1. “What Did You Miss” 4:59 
2. “Paint + Turpentine” 
3. “New Religion” 4:22 
4. “Girl And Her Dog” 4:59 
5. “The Saving Things” 4:53
6. “Hello My Name Is” 6:09 E
7. “Bitter Ender” 3:38 (first released April 23, 2025)
8. “The Night We Never Met” 3:31
9. “Home Is A Song” (feat. Anäis Mitchell) 4:06 (first released May 14, 2025)
10. “Say It Anyway” 3:42 
11. “Coda” 4:47
all songs written by Mary Chapin Carpenter

On Personal History, Mary Chapin Carpenter weaves songs from lyrical filaments and layers of cinematic instrumentation, enfolding us in a rich rhythmic grandeur. It may be her best album yet, and it is certainly one of the best albums of the year so far. - FOLK ALLEY

The album concludes with Mary Chapin’s signature emotional measure in “Say It Anyway” — another moving piece…until next time. Highlights – “What Did You Miss,” “Girl & Her Dog,” “The Saving Things,” “Hello, My Name Is,” “Bitter Ender,” “The Night We Never Met, & “Home Is a Song,” & “Say It Anyway.” - Americana Highways

Another wonderful, subtle production. If you allow an album to grow on you, the riche here will become ever more evident with every listen of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Personal HistoryROCKING MAGPIE.

‘Personal History’ is a record that Carpenter’s fans will absolutely love. It’s a deep dive into her life and 17 records in, it’s remarkable that she’s still able to deliver music of this calibre – 3 STARS EF COUNTRY

Rough Trade presented a conversation and acoustic performance from Mary Chapin Carpenter back on May 19th at Amazing Grace in London. This unique event celebrated the release of her new album.
A conversation with Mary Chapin Carpenter and screenwriter Nicole Taylor, with acoustic performances. 
Watch Instagram Clip HERE
Nicole Taylor is a screenwriter, originally from Glasgow. She adapted David Nicholls’ bestseller ONE DAY into a 14 part series for Netflix which went to global number one and received widespread critical and audience acclaim. She also wrote THREE GIRLS for BBC1 about the Rochdale grooming scandal, which won five BAFTAs, and the film WILD ROSE, starring Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters. The film is now the basis for a new musical, for which Nicole has written the book. Directed by John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), it received its world premiere at the Edinburgh Lyceum in March 2025.

On the heels of the album’s release, Carpenter will join forces with fellow Grammy Award-winning artist and songwriter, Brandy Clark, for a special US tour this summer and fall. Additional summer performances include a return to the legendary Newport Folk Festival on July 27 and a stop at Louisville’s Bourbon & Beyond Festival on September 12. 

Mary Chapin Carpenter Summer & Fall Tour 2025 with Brandy Clark

JUNE
09 - Revolution Hall - Portland OR
10 - Benaroya Hall - Seattle WA
11 - Hult Center - Eugene OR
13 - Uptown Theatre - Napa CA
14 - Mountain Winery - Saratoga CA
16 - Lobero Theatre - Santa Barbara CA
19 - Humphreys - San Diego CA
20 - Wilshire Ebell Theatre - Los Angeles CA
21 - Fox Tucson Theatre - Tucson AZ
22 - Scottsdale PAC - Scottsdale AZ
25 - Botanic Gardens - Denver CO
26 - Pikes Peak Center - Colorado Springs CO
27 - Strings Music Pavilion - Steamboat Springs CO
28 - VENUE TBA - Fort Collins CO
JULY
29 & 30 - Stone Mountain Arts Center Brownfield ME *an evening with MCC
See www.marychapincarpenter.com  for complete tour itinerary.

One of music’s “most reliable and empathetic songwriters” (Pitchfork), Carpenter has sold over 17 million records over the course of her renowned career. With hits like “Down At The Twist And Shout” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” she has won five Grammy Awards (with 18 nominations), two CMA Awards, two ACM Awards, is one of only twenty-two female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the 2023 ACM Honors Poet’s Award.
Carpenter’s last solo recording, 2021’s One Night Lonely (Live), was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards—exactly 30 years after her very first nomination. A rare solo performance, the album was recorded at Virginia’s legendary Wolf Trap and features songs from across her acclaimed career, including from her last solo studio album, The Dirt And The Stars

photo credit: Aaron Farrington

Most recently, Carpenter released Looking For The Thread, a collaborative album with legendary Scottish folk stars and songwriters Karine Polwart and Julie Fowlis. Released to widespread praise, Folk Alley describes it as, “a set of warm, introspective, and stunningly gorgeous songs…It’s beauty and warmth touch our souls deeply, and each song is a many faceted gem of love and hope,” while Music Row calls the project “enchanting” and The Arts Desk declares, “It’s only January but this is an album of the year…a class act, heartfelt and beautifully crafted.”
In addition to her work as a musician, last fall Carpenter unveiled her new podcast, “Hope is a Muscle,” which finds her in conversation with people from all walks of life including Joan Baez, Adriene Mishler, John Darnielle and U.S. Congressman Jamie Raskin. During its run, the podcast was in the top five music podcasts on both Apple and Spotify Platforms. Previously, in 2020, Carpenter released the three-part audio liner notes podcast, “One Story,” with American poet, Sarah Kay.