Breakthrough Southern Indie Singer-Songwriter Erin Rae to tour UK & Europe with her critically acclaimed record ‘Putting On Airs’

BROOKLYN VEGAN PREMIERE NEW VIDEO FOR THE REAL THING

“Magical”  
THE SUNDAY TIMES - ‘BREAKING ACT’

 “A wistful folk earworm that sees Rae coming to terms

 with her own sexuality.” -THE INDEPENDENT

 “Thanks to a wryly self-deprecating sense of humour, she makes country music conventions sound freshly lacerating” - UNCUT MAGAZINE (8/10)

London, Tuesday 24 July - Breakthrough Southern indie singer-songwriter Erin Rae today announced she will celebrate her critically acclaimed new album ‘Putting On Airs’ with a hotly anticipated UK and European tour including solo dates including London’s The Social on Thursday 30 August and a free lunch time show at on Wednesday 29 August at Rough Trade East before she supports His Golden Messenger at Islington Assembly Hall (full dates listed below). Following her UK tour Erin will return to the USA for her Fall USA tour supporting artists including: Jenny Lewis, Iron & Wine and Michael Nau. For more information see below and please visit: https://www.erinraemusic.com/tour/

Rae stated, “All of these artists are musicians I truly admire and have listened to for years. I just am thrilled to get the opportunity to join them and meet their audiences.”

Rae also premiered the release of her LR Baggs acoustic video for “The Real Thing” with Brooklyn Vegan - available here:

On the track Rae stated,  “The real thing” is about our responses to our environment - In years of therapy and recovery of different kinds—not to mention growing up in a sober household with parents that each spent some time working in a drug and alcohol treatment setting—I’ve learned a lot about how who we become as adult is shaped in response to our home environment and what our parents were like. While on a run one day, I was looking at these beautiful tall trees, and observed how they were all reaching around each other to get their own spot in the sun. It reminded me of how so much of my personality has developed to try and get my human needs met. I read an interview with Gene Wilder a while back, where he recounted how his mother was sick most of his life. He talked about a pivotal moment in his life, when his mother’s doctor told him that he had to make her smile to keep her well. It’s fascinating that his immense talents arose out of a need to keep his mother alive and stay connected to her. Most of us aren’t told explicitly that if we behave a certain way, we will get something we need from our parents or teachers, but as little children we learn what works to get a certain response, which carries over into adulthood. I’m really goofy to this day because I grew up loving to make my sister laugh.

Known for her incredible voice that is often compared to artists as diverse as Karen Carpenter and Feist, Rae started her career as an in-demand backing vocalist in Nashville for artists like Margo Price, Andrew Combs and Anderson East. Rae recently stepped out into the spotlight herself, and her incredible new record ‘Putting On Airs’ has become one of the most talked about indie releases of this year. Rising fast, she has also recently made her debut at the Ryman in Nashville, performing twice in two days, alongside friends Margo Price and Hiss Golden Messenger and has landed millions of plays on Spotify for her music gaining the attention of the world’s music critics including Uncut Magazine (8/10 album review), The Sunday Times, Guardian and Independent in the UK as well as Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine, Paste, Nylon, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, Noisey and many more in the USA.

EUROPE DATES:
Sat 25 August 2018 - | Once In A Blue Moon Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Sunday 26 August 2018 - This Must Be The Place, Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds (1-1A Cross Belgrave St, LS2 8JP) Hiss Golden Messenger, Lucy Dacus, Haley Heynderickx, Tiny Ruin, Erin Rae, Cruel World, More TBA
Monday 27 August 2018 -  The Deaf Institute, Manchester * support for Hiss Golden Messenger Event £19.25
Tuesday 28 August 2018 - The Kitchen Garden, Birmingham (17 York Road, Kings Heath B14 7SA) Event 
Weds 29 August 2018 - Islington Assembly Hall, London * support for Hiss Golden Messenger

Thurs 30n August 2018 - The Slaughtered Lamb, London (34-35 Great Sutton Street EC1V0DX) £8.25 Event
Sunday 2 September 2018 - End Of The Road Festival, Dorset www.endoftheroadfestival.com
Tues 4 September 2018 - The Hope & Ruin, Brighton £8.63 Event
Weds 5 September 2018 - The Louisiana, Bristol (Wapping Road, Bathurst Terrace, BS1 6UA)
Thurs 6 September 2018 - The Hug & Pint, Glasgow (171 Great Western Rd, G4 9AW)

Sat 8 September 2018 - The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall (Lutterworth, LE17 6DH) TICKETS: Day tickets start at £40*,

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(March 29, 2018) Erin Rae announces new album via John Paul White's Single Lock Records

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A STUNNING NEW VOICE FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH

ERIN RAE

Nashville's best kept secret Erin Rae is about to stake her claim as the new voice from the south, with the announcement of her new album release PUTTING ON AIRS out via Single Lock on June 8

New track called ‘Can't Cut Loose’ immediately available for pre-order

Over 1 Million plays on Spotify Erin will play the End Of The Road Festival in the UK (Aug-Sept 2018)

INDIE SINGER-SONGWRITER TO RELEASE HER HIGHLY ANTICIPATED

NEW RECORD: PUTTING ON AIRS

Release Date: 8 June 2018

Label: Single Lock (Red)

Copyright: (C) 2018 Single Lock Records

Total Length: 40:15

Genres: Rock

Amazon UK – Amazon.com – UK iTunes

OUT JUNE 8, 2018 ON SINGLE LOCK RECORDS

“CAN’T CUT LOOSE” PREMIERED WITH NOISEY

LISTEN NOW ON SOUNDCLOUD, SPOTIFY AND APPLE MUSIC

WITH HER MESMERISING NEW LP, NASHVILLE’S BEST-KEPT SECRET STAKES HER CLAIM AS A STUNNING NEW VOICE FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH

Erin Rae Has a Song for You When You Feel Like Going Back to Your Old Ways - NOISEY.COM

“This album is going to bewitch and enlighten the nation” – Ann Powers, NPR

“I wasinstantly transfixed.” – John Paul White

“With a voice thatswoons and soothes” – Rolling Stone

NASHVILLE, TN, March 28 – Marking the arrival of a stunning new voice from the American South, Erin Rae will release her highly anticipated new album ‘Putting On Airs’, out June 8 on Single Lock Records.  In advance of the release, the track 'Can’t Cut Loose' dropped (Weds Mar 28), premiering on Noisey.com, who strongly related to the song's lyrics and music, stating, “Quitting is hard, especially when what you're quitting seems like it has some sort of purpose you can't find from anything else.”

Rae, whose genre-fusing mix of traditional folk, indie-rock, and 1960s psych-rock production has landed her collaborations with artists like Margo Price and Andrew Combs – not to mention critical attention from the world’s top music media, including Rolling Stone, NPR, and the BBC -- is finally stepping out into the spotlight with ‘Putting On Airs’.

A forthcoming NPR World Café session and a busy tour schedule, including spring support dates with the Mountain Goats and Margo Price, and an appearance at End Of The Road Festival in the UK, shows Erin Rae’s star is on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic.

Buoying the release is Rae’s reputation as an enthralling live performer, which has earned her the respect of Nashville peers and music notables alike, including Grammy Award winner John Paul White, who has signed her to his Florence, Alabama-based label, Single Lock Records. Rae joins a Single Lock roster that includes Nicole Atkins, St. Paul And The Broken Bones, and White himself, who said “When I first heard Erin’s compelling voice, I knew nothing about her. 
It was live, with no intro (she was opening for friends of mine), and I was instantly transfixed. I couldn’t wait to engage, and that’s something I very seldom feel, much less do. I was thrilled to find out her personality was as engaging as her voice and songs, and that she was looking for a home. I couldn’t be happier to be hitching our wagons together.”

Rae describes ‘Can’t Cut Loose’ as “a song about romanticizing addiction in all of its forms, from substances to love and relationships. I wrote this song to that incessant longing voice in my head that tells me I need something else to make me feel different or better.”

Gifted with the unique ability to fuse musical genres and influences to craft songs that feels fresh and wholly her own, with ‘Putting On Airs’, Rae has thrown down a direct challenge to the stereotype of what a southern singer should be. Both musically and lyrically, she strikes a fiercely independent chord, proudly releasing a deeply personal record that reflects her own experience and upbringing in Tennessee, including the prejudices and injustices that she witnessed as a child that continue to impact her life to this day, including her personal struggle to understand her own sexuality. According to Rae, "this album was born out of a need to do some healing work in my personal life, to address some fears, and patterns of mine and allow my true feelings to come to the surface."

The isolated environment created the perfect setting for Erin and her bandmates to track these genre-busting songs, using the chapel and other unique spaces within the cavernous building to explore new sonic boundaries, all while continuing to showcase Erin’s trademark vocals and the song-serving restraint first heard on her critically-acclaimed 2015 debut album, ‘Soon Enough’ (engineered and produced by Anderson East and Mike Rinne).

The unique sound of the record is inspired by the innovative 1960s European production techniques from artists like the Beatles and Francoise Hardy, paired alongside the restraint and minimalism of modern artists like Angel Olsen, Richard Hawley, Twain and Michael Nau, bridging the sonic gap between classic songwriting and a modern indie-rock ethos. The album was co-produced by engineer Dan Knobler (Rodney Crowell, Tift Merritt) and multi-instrumentalist Jerry Bernhardt. Dominic Billett also served an integral role in the collective that worked together to create the album’s innovative and varied sonic pallet, providing the perfect soundscape for Erin’s soothing vocals, bathing everything in the warmth and purity that has become her trademark sound.

Alongside ‘Can’t Cut Loose’, preview track ‘Like The First Time’ was released in 2017 around her sell-out UK tour, drawing strong support from Spotify, as well as critical acclaim from British media, including the BBC and tastemakers Line Of Best Fit and Gold Flake Paint. Discussing the track, Rae explained that “I wrote this while I was kicking myself for acting against my own desires in an attempt to gain approval or validation to take the loneliness away. It just made me feel worse, which is a lesson I’ve had to relearn time and time again, and I think other folks do this, too. It’s that internal thought process of “if I just see this person one more time, maybe we’ll figure it out and make it work, and maybe I can make sure you think well of me, and speak well of me to other people.” Maybe that’s being too direct and clear, but I think so many of us have these little ulterior motives that get mixed in with attraction and lust. A driving force behind this record is the process of me trying to get honest with myself about when these feelings are at play, and waiting to act on them until I have more clarity and they feel like they are coming from a healthy place.

PUTTING ON AIRS TRACK LIST:

1.     Grand Scheme

2.     Putting On Airs

3.     Bad Mind

4.     Can’t Cut Loose

5.     Love Like Before

6.     June Bug

7.     Mississippi Queen

8.     Like The First Time

9.     The Real Thing

10.  Anchor Me Down

11.  Wild Blue Wind

12.  Pretend

“Putting On Airs” will be out in its entirety on June 8th via Single Lock Records in Florence, AL. I made this record with Dan Knobler, Jerry Bernhardt, and Dom Billett up in Appleton, WI thanks to Refuge Foundation for the Arts. pre-order here:https://t.co/yC34zpEnd4 pic.twitter.com/4o4kNRm6nI

— Erin Rae (@ErinRae_Music) 28 March 2018

ALBUM CREDITS:

Erin Rae - Vocals, electric and acoustic guitars

Jerry Bernhardt - Mellotron, Casiotone, Wurlitzer, Farfisa, piano, pump organ, electric/acoustic/slide guitars, bass, autoharp, whistle, drums on “Like The First Time”

Dominic Billett - Drums, percussion, vibraphone, bass guitar on “Like The First Time”

Background Vocals - Dom Billett & Jerry Bernhardt

All Songs written by Erin Rae McKaskle  

Produced by Dan Knobler

Recording and Mixing Engineer: Dan Knobler

Mastering Engineer: Alex McCollough, True East Mastering

Recorded at The Refuge in Appleton, WI (February 13-20, 2017)

Mixed at Goosehead Palace in Nashville, TN

TOUR:

MAR 30 FRI - The Burl, Lexington, KY, United States

MAR 31 SAT - Pretentious Beer Co. Knoxville, TN, United States

APR 19 THU - 116 E. Mobile, Florence, AL, United States

APR 24 TUE - Joshua Hedley - Record Release Show. Nashville, TN, United States

MAY 15 TUE - Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC, United States (Support for Margo Price)

MAY 16 WED - Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw, NC, United States (Support for Margo Price)

MAY 17 THU - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, United States (Support for Margo Price)

MAY 27 SUN - Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL, United States (Support for the Mountain Goats)

MAY 28 MON - Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL, United States (Support for the Mountain Goats)

MAY 29 TUE - Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL, United States (Support for the Mountain Goats)

JUN 27 WED - Sh*tty Barn, Spring Green, WI, United States

AUG 30 THU- SEP 2 SUN - End Of The Road Festival, Dorset, Southwest, United Kingdom

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Erin Rae releases new track 'Like The First Time' & June UK tour announced

Introducing Nashville’s Best Kept Secret…Erin Rae 


Finally stepping out into the spotlight, East Nashville’s go to harmony girl - Erin Rae now stands front and centre releasing her personal and empowering new single ‘Like The First Time’

THE 405 PREMIERE - “HER FINEST WORK YET” 

UK TOUR IN JUNE, INCLUDING LONDON’S GREEN NOTE (20 JUNE)
JOY FESTIVAL AND MAVERICK FESTIVAL 

The first track to be peeped from PUTTING ON AIRS, out September 2017.

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“With a voice that swoons and soothes”– Rolling Stone

“Rae exudes a natural sweet huskiness in her voice that falls somewhere between Patsy Cline and Aimee Mann” – American Songwriter
"One of my favourite up and coming singer-songwriters" - Margo Price
"A hidden gem in plain sight" - Wide Open Country

Although until recently relatively unknown to the wider media, if you speak to any seasoned pro or rising star in Nashville – they are likely to have sung with Erin Rae.

Known as East Nashville’s go to harmony girl – if you’re listening to a record by Margo Price, Anderson East, Andrew Combs or chatting to Richard Thompson or Aaron Lee Tasjan – they will sing the praises of Erin Rae. As an incredibly talented singer-songwriter it wasn’t long before Erin stepped out into the spotlight and it was also little surprise to the songwriting community when Erin’s full length debut ‘Soon Enough’, received huge critical support from long-time tastemakers at NPR alongside the likes of Rolling Stone, The Fader, and more. She has also already made her mark on the UK with her debut tour last year creating an underground buzz that resulted in support from the BBC and UK country publications such as Nashville Over Here.

Today Erin Rae announced the release of her new single, ‘Like The First Time’ (produced and engineered by Dan Knobler), which premiered on The 405, who described the track as, “drawing from country but infusing with 60s psych, Rae is capable of drawing genres and ideas that are seemingly at odds with one another into something quite remarkable”.

The track will be officially released on 9 June.

It’s unique languid feel combined with retro fuzz drenched guitar solos, may draw comparisons to European 60s psyche guitar soundscapes created by the Beatles and Yardbirds but to many ears it also mines deep, creatively disparate influences such as Richard Hawley, Wilco and Michael Nau. With an angsty feel, Erin’s vocals sooth (already drawing comparisons to Aimee Mann and Feist). 

Recorded at The Refuge in Appleton in Wisconsin in a beautiful, historic Franciscan monastery-turned-creative space on Wisconsin’s Fox River - the perfect setting for tracking Erin’s genre busting new single, which continues the vocal and song serving restraint of her indie-country tinged debut, ‘Soon Enough’,

The tracks empowering lyrics are very personal, with Erin sharing her desire to take a stand in her relationships, “Like The First Time is about making the mistake of thinking I can control how someone else perceives me or how they feel about me. It's about the pit in your stomach feeling after you go against what you feel is right, to try to keep someone from being angry with you. How it's super sad to disregard how you feel to try to appease another person. I think that's why this ones more angsty sounding. Lots of pent up emotion in that."

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She tours the UK in June performing at venues including London’s Green Note (see full tour dates below), with her band ‘The Meanwhiles’ - with multi instrumentalists Jerry Bernhardt (Andrew Combs, Ron Gallo) and Dom Billett (Andrew Combs, The Stray Birds) also featuring on the hotly anticipated new record, details of which will be announced in the very near future.

ERIN RAE AND THE MEANWHILES

Erin tours the UK in June 2017 dates including:

Weds 14 June 2017 - Dorset Arms. East Grinstead (58 High Street, West Sussex RH19 3DE) with Ags Connolly £11 Event
Thurs 15 June 2017 - The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge (Holmes Street, West Yorkshire, HX7 8EE) Event
Fri 16 June 2017 - Seven Artspace, Chapel Allerton, Leeds (31(a) Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, LS7 3PD)  £11 Event
Sat 17 June 2017 - Gordon Arms, Ents Shed, Bedford (Castle Road, MK40 3QY) £13.20 Event
Sun 18 June 2017 - Joy Festival, Tunbridge Wells (Groombridge Place, Groombridge Hill, Kent TN3 9QG) Event
Tues 20 June 2017 - Green Note, London £12 Event
Weds 21 June 2017 - The Canteen, Bristol (80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY) Event
Thurs 22 June 2017 - Poppy And Pint, Nottingham (Pierrepont Road, Lady Bay, NG2 5DX) £14.30 + Amelia Curran Event
Fri 23 June 2017 - Thimblemill Library, Smethwick, Birmingham (Thimblemill Road, B67 5RJ) support Ashland Event
Sat 24 June 2017 - The Forge at Anvil Arts, Basingstoke (Churchill Way, RG21 7QR) £13 Event
Sun 25 June 2017 - St. Mary's Hall, Whitstable (Oxford Street, Whitstable, CT5 1DD) £15.40 Event
Tues 27 June 2017 - The Hug & Pint, Glasgow (171 Great Western Rd, G4 9AW) £8 Event
Weds 28 June 2017 - The Depot, Edinburgh (138-140, Leith Walk, EH6 5DT) Website
Thurs 29 June 2017 - The Ex-Servicemens Club, Corby (Lloyds Road, Northamptonshire NN17 1AP) £5.50 Event
Fri 30 June 2017 - Maverick Festival, Marlingford (Easton Farm Park, Easton Woodbridge, Suffolk IP13 0EQ) Event
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MORE ABOUT ERIN
 

Born into music, Erin initially grew up in Jackson, Tennessee – before moving to Nashville at 11 years old.

Her introduction to folk music came early – with Mom and Dad both respected but off-radar part-time musicians – Erin often joined them on stage singing backing at age five, in churches, county fairs and in the coffee shops of West Tennessee.

Her Mom, close with many of the songwriting community saw potential in her daughter and through a connection with family friend and country superstar ‘Kathy Mattea’, Erin was introduced to Nashville star vocal coach, the wonderful late Phoebe Binkley. 

Phoebe was a Nashville legend, coaching Reese Witherspoon (for her appearance in film, ‘Walk The Line’), Crystal Gayle and Erin personally for many years until her passing in 2016.

Inspired by her work with Phoebe, Erin began teaching others herself and became one of the most popular vocal coaches in Nashville, teaching on the side, whilst she built her own songwriting career – Erin stated, “I was so fortunate to work with Phoebe, because she helped me to develop my natural ability and encouraged me to stay true to my art. Because she was so connected to generations of musicians gone by, as well as present day talent, I felt very connected to a sense of musical tradition in Nashville, and more confident in my work. I felt like I came from a musical heritage outside of my bloodline, as well as the talent and influence passed down by my parents. I love to pass on that support to my students - just trying to see what they are envisioning for themselves and using what I know to support them in that. It’s a really cool way to get to know people, too. You're working on the technical side of the voice, but, for me, it’s so intertwined with the personal side.”

Both the DIY East Nashville indie scene and Americana community have strongly embraced Erin’s music. Perhaps because she bridges the sonic gap between classic country songwriting sensibilities found in artists identifying as Americana, but combined with a left field creative indie mindset, using a wider synthesis of genres that has also drawn a young indie crowd to Erin’s shows. 

Considered one of Nashville fastest rising stars, Erin’s focus is now on her own music – and with her second record about to receive rave reviews and a hotly anticipated UK tour – it’s no wonder that Erin is happy to take her turn in the spotlight.

Music:

(16 Oct 2012) Erin Rae and the Meanwhiles - Crazy Talk EP 
5 tracks Bandcamp - Noisetrade

(24 June 2016) Erin Rae and the Meanwhiles - Soon Enough (Clubhouse Records UK)
13 tracks Amazon UK | iTunes

(16 Sept 2016) Erin Rae and the Meanwhiles - Playing Old Games 
3 tracks Amazon UK | iTunes

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