September
20, 2018; Nashville, TN — Amy
Ray, still thriving as one half of GRAMMY-winning folk duo Indigo
Girls, is premiering her
upcoming solo album, HOLLER, today at NPR Folk Alley — “Hear It First”
HERE. Containing 14
new songs by Ray, HOLLER will be released on September 28, 2018 on Daemon
Records via the Compass Records Group and will include a special
double LP version, along with hi-res and MQA versions. Ray and
her recording and touring band will kick off a Southeastern tour on
October 23 (scroll down for complete dates), with Northeast and West
Coast runs coming in Spring 2019.
Inspired
by her Southern upbringing and her home in rural Georgia, HOLLER finds Ray once again displaying her knack for
straddling the line between the personal and the political on these
songs. Ray writes: “The songs are all my
own compositions and tell stories of late nights, love, addiction,
immigration, despair, honkytonks, growing up in the south, touring
for decades, being born in the midst of the civil rights movement,
and the constant struggle to find balance in the life of a left-wing
Southerner who loves Jesus, her homeland and its peoples.”
There is
a tip of the hat to the great Jim Ford 1969 release, HARLAN
COUNTY, and songs inspired
by the film Winter’s Bone, Appalachian poet Byron Herbert Reece and writer Toni
Cade Bambara. Along with her touring and recording band, HOLLER features a horn section on some tracks and
appearances by Justin Vernon, Pil Cook,
Derek Trucks, Brandi Carlile, Lucy Wainwright Roche, The Wood
Brothers, Vince Gill and more,
which illustrates not only just how broad Amy’s musical tastes are
but how widely she’s respected among her musical peers.
Thoughtful
and musically fluid, Ray, like many Southern artists, grapples with
love for her heritage — both musical and personal — and her own, more
inclusive values. It’s that drive and artistic commitment that
has made Ray’s career so full of unforgettable songs, and HOLLER feels like a culmination.
TOUR
DATES
TU Oct 23 – Macon, GA |
Hargray Capitol Theatre w/Michelle Malone
WE Oct 24 – Durham, NC | Motorco Music Hall w/
HC McEntire
FR Oct 26 – Nashville, TN | Mercy
Lounge w/ HC McEntire
SA Oct 27 – Atlanta, GA | Variety Playhouse
SU Oct 28 – Asheville, NC | The Grey
Eagle w/ HC McEntire
TU Oct 30 – Winston-salem, NC | The
Ramkat w/ HC McEntire
WE Nov 7 – Tampa, FL | Crowbar w/Danielle
Howle
TH Nov 8 – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL | Ponte Vedra
Concert Hall /Danielle Howle
FR Nov 9 – Statesboro, GA | Averitt Center for
the Arts w/ Tony Arata
SU Nov 11 – York, SC | Sylvia Theater
w/Danielle Howle
TU Nov 13 – Nelsonville, OH | Stuart’s Opera
House w/Amythyst Kiah
WE Nov 14 – Ann Arbor, MI | The
Ark w/Amythyst Kiah
TH Nov 15 – Chicago, IL | Maurer Hall, Old
Town School of Folk Music w/Amythyst Kiah
TU Nov 27 – Akron, OH | EJ Thomas Hall
w/Chastity Brown
WE Nov 28 – Indianapolis, IN | The
Hi-Fi w/Chastity Brown
FR Nov 30 – Athens, GA | The
Foundry w/Chastity Brown
SA Dec 1 – Rocky Mount, VA | The Harvester
w/After Jack
SU Dec 2 – Charleston, WV | Mountain Stage
– West
Coast and Northeast Tour dates coming early Spring 2019
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