Courtney Marie Andrews announces new album / releases album title track 'May Your Kindness Remain'

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS’
MAY YOUR KINDNESS REMAIN
OUT MARCH 23

Cover Art: photo credit: Laura E. Partain  

BREAKTHROUGH U.S. SINGER SONGWRITER RELEASES ALBUM TITLE TRACK, FEATURED AT NPR MUSIC

HEADLINE TOUR DATES CONFIRMED

Release Date: 23 March 2018

Pre-Order Link – UK iTunes

Label: LOOSE

10 Tracks

Total Length: 43:00

Genres: Folk

Courtney Marie Andrews’ new full-length album, May Your Kindness Remain, will be released March 23 on Loose in the UK & Europe and Fat Possum Records/Mama Bird Recording Co. in the USA and is now available for pre-order (cma.lnk.to/mykr). 

In advance of the release, the album’s title track is premiered as part of NPR Music’s “Songs We Love” series. Of the song NPR Music praises, “May Your Kindness Remain, a collection of songs, borne from interactions with others, that strives for healing and empathy in the midst of division and discord.”  In support of the album, Andrews will tour the US and Europe throughout 2018, including a newly confirmed headline show at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on 24 April – see full dates below.

Produced by Mark Howard (Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Tom Waits), the album was recorded over eight days at a rented house-turned-studio in L.A. In addition to Andrews on vocals and electric/acoustic guitar, the album features Dillon Warnek (electric guitar), Daniel Walter (organ, Wurlitzer, accordion), Charles Wicklander (piano, Wurlitzer), William Mapp (drums, percussion), Alex Sabel (bass) and C.C. White (background vocals).

Of the album and the inspiration behind its ten songs, Andrews comments, “The people that I’ve met on the road these past few years got me thinking about my childhood, and the people around me that I’ve known, and the stories that come from my family. It became clear how many people are struggling through the same issues. People are constantly chasing that bigger life. A lot of people are poor in America—and because of those unattainable goals, they’re also mentally unstable, or sad, or depressed or unfulfilled. A lot of people—myself included at some point in my life—are loving somebody through this. That’s sort of the theme of the record: coming to terms with depression and the reality of the world we’re living in.”

Sleeve Art: Photo credit: Laura E. Partain  

UK fans fell for Courtney’s breakthrough album HONEST LIFE last year, when as the BBC put it, she became an “overnight success” after 10 years trying to break into the business. UK media such as The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times compared her music to the work of classic artists such as Guy Clark, John Prine, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Glen Campbell alongside modern references such as Laura Marling and Julie Byrne. Mesmerised by her unique and timeless sound, which blends indie folk rock and country, media were also charmed by her persistence and drive. 

Courtney has been on the road since she was 16 years old, when she left home in Arizona for her first tour. For the next decade she was a session and backup singer and guitarist for nearly 40 artists – from Jimmy Eat World to Damien Jurado - but she never stopped writing her own material. The resulting album Honest Life received its European release in January 2017, becoming one of the biggest breakthrough records of 2017 in the UK, with 4-5 star reviews from publications including Daily Telegraph, Uncut, Mojo and Q Magazine, as well as reaching #1 on the Official U.K. Americana Chart and #1 on the Independent Album Breakers Chart, remaining in the Americana Chart for 18 consecutive weeks. In April 2017, Andrews made her debut on the BBC’s legendary “Later…With Jools Holland” programme. Honest Life received a nomination for International Album Of The Year with Courtney receiving a nomination for International Artist Of The Year at the UK Americana Awards, due to be held on 1st February in Hackney.

MAY YOUR KINDNESS REMAIN TRACK LIST
1. May Your Kindness Remain Soundcloud
2. Lift The Lonely From My Heart
3. Two Cold Nights In Buffalo
4. Rough Around The Edges
5. Border

6. Took You Up
7. This House
8. Kindness Of Strangers
9. I’ve Hurt Worse
10. Long Road Back To You

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS CONFIRMED TOUR DATES

UK Dates 

Weds 31 January 2018 - O2 ABC, Glasgow (Celtic Connections) Event

Sat 3rd February 2018 - St Barnabas Church, Oxford (Cardigan Street, OX2 6BG) £16.50 Event

Sun 4th February 2018 - The Keep, Guildford (29 Castle Street, Guildford, GU1 3UW) (Matinee show) Event * SOLD OUT *

Sun 4th February 2018 - The Keep, Guildford (29 Castle Street, Guildford, GU1 3UW) (Late show)

Wednesday, 18 April 2018 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (33 Queen's Rd, Leeds LS6 1NY) £14.85 Event

Thursday, 19 April 2018 - Summerhall, Edinburgh (Summerhall Place, EH9 1PL) £17.60 Event

Fri 20 April 2018 - Whelans, Dublin (25 Wexford St, Dublin, Dublin 2, IE) Event

Saturday, 21 April 2018 - Arts Club Liverpool, Liverpool (90 SEEL STREET, L1 4BH) £14.85 Event

Sunday 22nd April 2018 - Gorilla, Manchester (54-56 Whitworth St West, M1 5WW) £14.85 Standing Event

Monday, 23 April 2018 - Komedia, Brighton (44-47 Gardner Street, East Sussex, BN1 1UN) Event

European Dates
April 12—Copenhagen, Denmark—Vega
April 13—Berlin, Germany—Privatclub
April 14—Amsterdam, Netherlands—Bitterzoet
April 15—Cologne, Germany—Studio 672
April 16—Brussels, Belgium—AB Club
April 26—Paris, FR—Petit Bain
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