It’s Amy
Speace’s debut on Proper Records. Produced by the grammy-nominated Neilson
Hubbard, these are 11 songs that deal with dreams and lies, gospel and
ghosts. "Amy Speace is on a roll. Each new release has brought an
expansion of her voice and her art, and she has reached the level of absolute
mastery. Folk music doesn’t get any better than this” - Mary Gauthier
“Me And
The Ghost Of Charlemagne is distinguished by a succession of sparse confessionals,
catapulted above the norm by one of the purest and most eloquent voices in
Americana today.”
Record Collector ★★★★
“Judy
Collins protégée excels on stellar seventh album.. Me And The Ghost Of Charlemagne
is sweeping in reach, magisterial in design.” - Uncut 8/10
Amy
Speace - the former Shakespearean-trained actor who is known for her literate, detailed
songwriting and versatile, expressive vocals - has announced the September 6th
release of "The Ghost of Charlemagne," a collection of exquisite lyrical
portraits in miniature that she says “is about life and death and the journey
of all dreamers."
Produced by longtime collaborator Neilson Hubbard and recorded during the final weeks of Speace's pregnancy with her first son at age 50, ‘Me And The Ghost Of Charlemagne’ captures Speace at her most nakedly honest, with sparsely-decorated songs that double down on her larger-than-life voice and detail-rich songwriting.
It’s an album about the colliding of dreams and reality, full of characters making sense of their lives when something is lost and then found. Really, it's an album about the trials and triumphs of an artist's journey - a journey that's no longer focused upon the destination, but upon the actual trip itself.
It’s an album about the colliding of dreams and reality, full of characters making sense of their lives when something is lost and then found. Really, it's an album about the trials and triumphs of an artist's journey - a journey that's no longer focused upon the destination, but upon the actual trip itself.
Discovered and mentored by folk-pop icon Judy Collins, Speace left her career as aclassically-trained Shakespearean actress and, instead, kicked off a string of acclaimed albums, including Songs for Bright Street, The Killer in Me, and How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat. Championed by The New York Times, NPR and more, she received further acclaim as a member of Applewood Road, a harmony-heavy trio whose
self-titled
album became a critical success in the UK, earning a five-star review from The
Sunday Times.
Speace
blends the best parts of American roots music — gospel, alt-country, folk, classic
pop — into her own songs. 'Me And The Ghost Of Charlemagne' follows in that diverse
tradition, but it also shines its light on a new Amy Speace: a clear-eyed,
reenergized
songwriter who's done with chasing things that don't matter...but isn't anywhere
close to being done with her art.
TRACK
LISTING:
01:
Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne 4:42
02:
Grace of God 6:11
03:
Ginger Ale and Lorna Doones 3:19
04
Pretty Girls 4:07
05
Standing Rock, Standing Here 5:19
06
Both Feet on the Ground 3:24
07
Icicle King 5:35
08
Back in Abilene 3:59
09
Some Dreams Do 4:55
10
This, and My Heart Beside 2:03
11
Kindness 4:05
Recorded
& Mixed at Skinny Elephant Recording, East Nashville, TN
Additional
Recording at Cinderella Studio, Madison, TN
Produced
by Neilson Hubbard
Engineered
& mixed by Dylan Aldridge
Mastered
by Jim DeMan at Yes! Master
DISCOGRAPHY:
Me
And The Ghost Of Charlemagne (Wind Bone/Proper 2019)
Applewood
Road w/Emily Barker & Amber Rubarth (GearBox 2015/2016)
Same
Old Storm - EP (Wind Bone 2014)
How
To Sleep In A Stormy Boat (Wind Bone - 2013)
How
To Sleep In A Stormy Boat - Deluxe Edition (Wind Bone - 2013)
Land
Like A Bird (Thirty Tigers - 2011)
Into
The New: Alternates, Leftovers, and Orphans - EP (Wildflower - 2010)
Killer
In Me (Wildflower - 2009) -
Songs
For Bright Street (Wildflower - 2006)
Fable
(Twangirl - 2002)
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