Mit ihrem neuen Album präsentiert Courtney Marie Andrews ihr bisher persönlichstes und zugleich experimentierfreudigstes Album. Entstanden in einer Phase von Abschieden, Neuanfängen und tiefen emotionalen Umbrüchen, erzählt es von der Suche nach echter, gewachsener Liebe – jenseits von leeren Gesten und oberflächlicher Romantik.

Produziert gemeinsam mit Jerry Bernhardt und fast vollständig wie früher live auf Tonband aufgenommen, lebt Valentine von unmittelbarer Energie statt Perfektion. Die Songs sind zugleich verletzlich und kraftvoll, getragen von Andrews’ unverwechselbarer Stimme, die hier eine neue Tiefe und Bestimmtheit findet. Musikalisch schlägt sie Brücken zwischen Folk, Americana und Pop, inspiriert von Größen wie Fleetwood Mac oder Big Star, und erweitert den Sound um Flöte, Orgel, Synthesizer und vielschichtige Harmonien.

Die Texte bewegen sich zwischen Trauer, Zweifel und Hoffnung – entstanden aus persönlichen Krisen, aber stets mit dem Willen, Stärke aus dem erlittenen Schmerz zu ziehen. Songs wie „Everyone Wants to Feel Like You Do“ oder „Cons and Clowns“ verbinden klare Haltung mit Melodie und Leichtigkeit, während Stücke wie „Little Picture of a Butterfly“ oder „Hangman“ die verletzliche Seite der Künstlerin offenbaren.

Courtney Marie Andrews bleibt dabei ihrem Anspruch treu: Jede Platte soll für sich stehen und neue Wege beschreiten. Valentine ist ihr reifstes Werk – ein Album voller Mut, Schönheit und Menschlichkeit.
Mit ihrer neuen Musik im Gepäck kommt Courtney Marie Andrews für zwei exklusive Termine nach Deutschland – ein Ereignis, auf das sich Fans schon jetzt freuen dürfen.

Nashville's Taylor Zachry is getting set to release his debut solo album, aptly titled Songs I've Had Forever. He plays in the beloved Nashville band Blank Range and has toured with artists like Courtney Marie Andrews, Erin Rae, Yola, Rayland Baxter, and Jonny Fritz to name a few. In 2020, he teamed up with producer Ryan McFadden (Torres, Meg Elsier, Parker Millsap) to start recording his own songs. What started as a straightforward Nashville indie-folk record morphed over the following years into an exploration of Taylor himself, both the person and the artist.

Over the course of making this album, both Ryan and Taylor faced some of life's most defining events: family deaths, marriage, falling in and out of love, truly staring in the face of life's biggest and toughest truths. In the words of Ryan, "Nothing but truth holds up after five years of life’s tumbling."

The resulting album, Songs I've Had Forever, is truth at its core. It is a record that feels as if it arrived from somewhere else - dug up from a mysterious basement somewhere or one that magically appeared in your collection. It is for fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Microphones, Sparklehorse: these enigmatic projects that feel like a window into something more.

Taylor has become known in circles of Nashville for his unpredictable and nearly indescribable live shows that blend songs from his record with semi-improvised and intensely refreshing performances using cassette tape loops, a Barbie karaoke machine, and other objects.

In the words of producer Ryan McFadden:
"The record began to sound unearthed more than constructed. We no longer knew the guys who built it and therefore we could love it without ego, and judge it without ego, the work had nothing much to do with us. Feeling the freedom in that, we wondered how to separate from a creation in real time, to have objectivity without distance. Taylor started trying to answer that question in his live shows. Not improvisation but somehow to be an immediate audience member to his own performance. What he learned from those shows he brought back to the studio. We put on the original tapes, worked intuitively and found a path that allowed us to finish the record."

Songs I've Had Forever has the potential to be indie canon. The kind of record you return to again and again, that changes and ages with you and always offers something more.

It's maybe best summed up by fellow Nashville musician and producer, Jerry Bernhardt (Courtney Marie Andrews, Erin Rae, Ron Gallo), in a note to Taylor after he first heard the record: "It speaks to all that is holy to me in music...So natural, absolutely next level. You have created such a world with this collection of songs. A bent, hallucinogenic, enchanting and inviting world."