Charlie Worsham looking forward to UK tour in September

Singer-songwriter Charlie Worsham has announced a return visit to the UK in September 2018, including headline shows, a run of dates with Lee Ann Womack and an appearance at The Long Road festival alongside Carrie Underwood, Striking Matches and Catherine McGrath. This ties in with the release of his new UK/European radio single 'Southern By The Grace Of God', taken from critically acclaimed second album 'Beginning Of Things' (out now on Warner Music Nashville), which received rave reviews from NPR and American Songwriter among others, and was described by Rolling Stone as “a quietly excellent set of songs that show off both Worsham’s thoughtful storytelling and his serious musical chops" - RS Country also featured the release as one of their 40 best albums of 2017.

Stream the single on Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube.

Tickets are on sale for all shows now - full dates below:

Saturday 1 September 2018 – Thekla, Bristol (The Grove Bristol BS1 4RB) (Solo headline) £15.68

Sunday 2 September 2018 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (33 Queens Road, LS6 1NY) (Solo headline) £15.68

Monday 3 September 2018 - The Cluny, Newcastle (36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ) (Solo headline) £15.68

Tuesday 4 September 2018 - St Luke's, Glasgow (17 Bain Street, G40 2JZ) (w/ Lee Ann Womack)

Thursday 6 September 2018 - RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester (Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD) (w/ Lee Ann Womack) £28.25

Friday 7 September 2018 - Union Chapel, London (w/ Lee Ann Womack) £31.75

Sunday 9 September 2018 - The Long Road Festival - Stanford Hall, Leicestershire £44.00 (Ticketmaster UK £40.00 + £4.00 Fees)

Tickets available from Ticketmaster UK

In his own words: “UK fans are my people! they were the first to hear the songs that became 'Beginning Of Things', and I can’t wait to be back trying out more new songs. It’s thanks to touring in the UK that I figured out how to close my acoustic shows with 'Southern By The Grace Of God', and singing it across the pond makes me think of my own family roots - after all, us Worshams originated near Bexhill by the sea."

"I guarantee you these shows will influence the evolution of my music, and I’m especially excited to perform shows with a band at the Long Road Festival.”

ABOUT CHARLIE WORSHAM:
Beloved within the Nashville community, Charlie Worsham continues to receive widespread attention for his new album, 'Beginning of Things'. NPR Music praises the way his music exhibits “deep musicality…great playing, [and] sophisticated lyricism…” with Rolling Stone naming the album to their 40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2017 calling it "The Most Vulnerable Country Album” of the year. Variety, CMT, and PopMatters are just a few of the esteemed outlets who included his sophomore effort on year-end best of lists.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Worsham attended Grenada High School and went on to study at Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music. In addition to his life as a musician, Worsham is actively involved in music education and, last year, founded the Follow Your Heart Scholarship Fund in partnership with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. The fund supports the youth of Grenada, Mississippi—his hometown—who possess uncommon talent and desire to achieve great things in the arts. In its first year, the organisation has raised nearly $50,000. More information can be found at www.FollowYourHeartArts.org 

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Charlie Worsham - UK Tour / Vinyl Release / In-Stores

Charlie Worsham's latest album 'Beginning of Things' (Warner Music Nashville) will be released on limited edition, 12" clear vinyl and made available to fans in the UK/Ireland on his forthcoming tour dates with Lucie Silvas, starting 13th November 2017 in London. In his own words: "The songs on 'Beginning of Things' found their first audience here in the United Kingdom and Europe, and this is a record that was made to be played on vinyl, so I couldn’t be more excited to bring these limited edition LPs with me on tour. Speaking of on tour, I am beside myself to join up with one of my all-time-favourite voices (and human beings), Lucie Silvas. 
These shows are gonna be crazy - my first across the pond with a backing band!" The full tour dates are:

Lucie Silvas & Charlie Worsham

Mon 13 November 2017 -  Islington Assembly Hall, London (Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UD)    

Weds 15 November 2017 - O2 Academy, Birmingham (78 Digbeth High Street, Digbeth, B5 6DY)

Thurs 16 November 2017 - Ruby Lounge, Manchester (28-34 High Street, M4 1QB)                   

Fri 17 November 2017 -  King Tuts, Glasgow (272a ST Vincent Street, G2 5RL)  

Sun 19 November 2017 – Limelight, Belfast (17, Ormeau Avenue, BT2 8HD)

Mon 20 November 2017 - The Academy, Dublin (57 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin,1, IE)

Tickets available from Ticketmaster UK

In addition to these shows, Charlie will be playing a couple of intimate in-store acoustic performances in London and Oxford:

5th November - Rhythm & Roots, Chiswick, London (airbnb experience event), 6pm

9th November - Truck Music Store, Oxford, 6pm

ABOUT CHARLIE WORSHAM:

Come to the crossroads, and you can set your soul up for sale. It’s been done before, most famously in Charlie Worsham’s home state of Mississippi, by blues hero Robert Johnson. It’s done most every day in Nashville, the music town that has nurtured, bruised, sustained and menaced Worsham’s every dream. But soul-selling is a tricky deal, and, anyway, it’s a buyer’s market. And so when Worsham came to his crossroads—an intersection exacerbated by a groaning confusion between the fitting in and the setting apart—he took a different approach. He rose on blue-black winter mornings and opened a Moleskine notebook onto which he had written “Tell the Truth.” Then he sat there in the dawn and scrawled his conscience. Those morning pages filled, one every morning, and the filling of a page was the easy emptying of a mind that had remained awake and weighted through a young man’s fitful slumber.

A record deal and a radio fate… ill-fitting opening gigs, and glorious headlining engagements seen and heard by too few… the struggle to fit a Berklee School of Music-educated array of uncategorizable virtuosity into contemporary trends and formats… all of that felt different in the morning, there at the crossroads, where there was no need to sell a soul and every need to nourish one. He wasn’t writing songs—if writing songs were as easy as telling the truth, songwriters would spend each day on a witness stand—he was unlocking, unbending. He was remembering himself. All that done, he was free to kick ass. He took the Moleskine to town, gathered with comrades who had worked with him on debut album Rubber Band, and read a few revelations. Having figured out what he had to say, all that was left was to decide how to say it, and how to reveal it. He turned to a handful of old friends and one new one: Frank Liddell had produced winning albums for Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack and others. Liddell offered advice that Worsham took as directive: To paraphrase, originality is competition’s Kryptonite, and the setting apart transcends the fitting in. With co-producer Eric Masse and a lean but spectacular core band, Worsham and Liddell entered the studio and created 'Beginning of Things', a landmark album that uncovers Worsham as the rarest of talents, as Mississippi’s first great new-century musical son, and as a survivor of the highest order.

'Beginning of Things' lives on contemporary country music’s cutting edge, with echoes from the past that thunder and whirl their way into an electric Southern symphony of guitars, strings, horns, twang, funk, rhythm, smile and snarl. There are moments of nostalgia, but nothing throwback. It’s both a declaration of independence and a celebration of musical community, and it could only have been made by someone with Worsham’s depth and breadth of experience, understanding, and musicality. “This one’s me,” he says. “I’ve been around long enough now to get why you’re supposed to do what you do, and not do what someone else does.” Worsham's 2013 debut RUBBERBAND (No.12 Country (#64 BB200) selling some 6,000 units) was a display of potent promise, but Worsham’s sophomore work is his emergence. It is promise realized, and perspective attained. “Life is a record,” he sings. “Better cut your groove.” And if that record gets dinged in the shuffling, “Part of the charm is the crackle, the pop and the hiss.”

BEGINNING OF THINGS is out now. (21 April 2017; Warner Music Nashville; Amazon UK - UK iTunes – Amazon.com)

Charlie Worsham is on tour in Europe with Lucie Silvas in November 2017.

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