COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS
NEW ALBUM ‘HONEST LIFE’ OUT 27 JANUARY 2017
FEBRUARY
UK TOUR
25 Feb - GATESHEAD, Sage 2*
26
Feb - DURHAM,
Old Cinema Launderette
COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS is
delighted to announce her new album ‘Honest Life’, plus a series of UK
shows in 2017.
Perhaps currently best known for being Damien
Jurado’s lead guitarist, Courtney Marie Andrews has been on the road since she
was 16 years old, when she left home in Arizona for her first
tour. She travelled up and down the West Coast, busking and playing any bars or
cafés that would have her. Soon after she took a Greyhound bus four nights
straight from Phoenix to New York to do the
same on the East Coast. For a decade or so since Courtney’s been 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.
"while she keeps
company with some wonderful contemporary artists Andrews channels classic icons
beautifully” - NPR
“Andrews
matches her sparkling voice with honeyed generally somber folk/country that
when matched with often melancholy lyrics will give you shivers” - AMERICAN
SONGWRITER
“a
phenomenal songwriter” - RYAN ADAMS
With plans to settle down for a bit and focus on her
own songs, Courtney moved to Seattle in 2011 and
recorded her last full-length record On My Page. However, the record had hardly
been released before she was on the road again performing other artists’ songs,
eventually leading her overseas to play guitar and sing with Belgian star
Milow. At the tour’s end, the other session players joined her to record her
2014 EP Leuven Letters in one take. It was during this time that Courtney also
wrote many of the songs on Honest Life. She found herself realising the impact
of growing up on the road and this constant reconciling between her own and
others’ art and identity. Courtney takes it from there:
“While in Belgium for four
months, I was going through a major heartbreak. I started growing homesick for America and the
comfort of family and friends. That's where I wrote the first songs for Honest
Life. It was a giant hurdle in my life, my first true growing pains as a woman.
That's why I feel this record is a coming of age album. A common thread that
runs through the songs is a great desire to fit somewhere, when nowhere fits -
and wanting to get back home to the people I know and love. Once I got back to
the USA I started to
work at a small town bar. At the bar I felt I could truly empathize with the
stories and lives of the people there. I wrote the other half of the songs
about coming home and feeling a sense of belonging again. A lot of the stories
at that bar definitely ran parallel with my own, even though our lives were so
different. I was the ‘musician girl’. They were farmers, construction workers,
plumbers, waitresses, and cashiers. But, no matter how different, I felt we
were all trying to live our most honest life.”
True to her own vision, Andrews produced the
resulting album herself and recorded it at Litho Studios in Seattle with
recording engineer Floyd Reitsma, whose recent credits include Noah Gundersen
and Pearl Jam. Honest
Life will be released 27 January
2017 on 180g turquoise vinyl, CD & download, via Loose.
21 Feb - NORWICH,
Arts Centre*
22
Feb - MANCHESTER,
RNCM*
23
Feb - GLASGOW, St Luke’s*
24
Feb - EDINBURGH,
The Caves*
25
Feb - GATESHEAD, Sage 2*
26
Feb - DURHAM,
Old Cinema Launderette
27
Feb - LEEDS, Brudenell*
28
Feb - CARDIFF,
Clwb Ifor Bach
1
Mar - COVENTRY,
The Tin
2
Mar - LONDON,
Union Chapel*
3
Mar - BRIGHTON, Concorde 2*
4
Mar - GUILDFORD, The Keep
6
Mar - LONDON,
The Social
8 Mar - COLOGNE,
Theater der Wohngemeinschaft
9
Mar - ARNHEM, Luxor Live
10
Mar - MIDDELBURG, De Spot
11 Mar - MOERBEKE,
House Show
12 Mar - BRUSSELS, AB Huis 23
14 Mar - UTRECHT,
Molenpark De Ster
- with The Handsome Family
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