Urchin PR
New Member
FoggyFolk Presents
Devon Sproule
& full band performance featuring legendary pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole
special guests: DON’T MOVE www.myspace.com/dontmove
Whelan’s, Tuesday June 10
Tickets €14 from WAV [lo-call 1890 200 078], tickets.ie, Ticketmaster & City Discs.
"Vintage country...with jazzy sophistication...beautifully sparse arrangements and melodies that surprise the ear when you first hear them, but which then get under your skin much more than anything more obvious would." – BBC
“Sproule's songs ooze the atmosphere of balmy Virginia days… and her sunny outlook is infectious." - The Observer
“It's [Keep Your Silver Shined] a marvelous collection of songs and, frankly, it evokes a sense of place better than any album since Lucinda Williams' 1999 masterpiece Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” - All Music Guide
Born to hippie parents on a commune in Kingston, Ontario, 25-year-old guitarist and songwriter Devon Sproule claims dual citizenship with both Canada and the US. After moving between private, public and home schooling, she eventually left high school, recorded her first record, and began touring nationally, all before the age of eighteen. New album Keep Your Silver Shined presents an honest and sparkling portrait of Sproule: candid, poetic and right at home.
Released on Tin Angel Records, Sproule’s latest offering was produced by Jeff Romano in the heart of Virginia’s Blue Ridge mountains. Keep Your Silver Shined highlights Sproule’s talent for combining Appalachian, folk and jazz influences. From the front porch thump of "Old Virginia Block" to the high lonesome traditional "The Weeping Willow,” featuring fellow Virginia-native Mary Chapin Carpenter, this record finds Sproule making another important contribution to the Great American Songbook.
Just home from a British support tour with Woodstock legend Richie Havens, Sproule, with her trademark vintage dresses and 50-year-old Gibson guitar, seems pleased. “Being invited back to the UK is always good news. Folks there think you’re cool for coming, and folks at home think you’re cool for going. Keeps a girl’s chin up to be called cool once in a while. And the audiences are terrific.”
www.devonsproule.com
www.myspace.com/devonsproule
Don’t Move are also signed to the Tin Angel label. This English band strike the perfect note between west coast pop, American bluegrass and the timeless jangle of The Smiths. www.mysapce.com/dontmove
Devon Sproule
& full band performance featuring legendary pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole
special guests: DON’T MOVE www.myspace.com/dontmove
Whelan’s, Tuesday June 10
Tickets €14 from WAV [lo-call 1890 200 078], tickets.ie, Ticketmaster & City Discs.
"Vintage country...with jazzy sophistication...beautifully sparse arrangements and melodies that surprise the ear when you first hear them, but which then get under your skin much more than anything more obvious would." – BBC
“Sproule's songs ooze the atmosphere of balmy Virginia days… and her sunny outlook is infectious." - The Observer
“It's [Keep Your Silver Shined] a marvelous collection of songs and, frankly, it evokes a sense of place better than any album since Lucinda Williams' 1999 masterpiece Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” - All Music Guide
Born to hippie parents on a commune in Kingston, Ontario, 25-year-old guitarist and songwriter Devon Sproule claims dual citizenship with both Canada and the US. After moving between private, public and home schooling, she eventually left high school, recorded her first record, and began touring nationally, all before the age of eighteen. New album Keep Your Silver Shined presents an honest and sparkling portrait of Sproule: candid, poetic and right at home.
Released on Tin Angel Records, Sproule’s latest offering was produced by Jeff Romano in the heart of Virginia’s Blue Ridge mountains. Keep Your Silver Shined highlights Sproule’s talent for combining Appalachian, folk and jazz influences. From the front porch thump of "Old Virginia Block" to the high lonesome traditional "The Weeping Willow,” featuring fellow Virginia-native Mary Chapin Carpenter, this record finds Sproule making another important contribution to the Great American Songbook.
Just home from a British support tour with Woodstock legend Richie Havens, Sproule, with her trademark vintage dresses and 50-year-old Gibson guitar, seems pleased. “Being invited back to the UK is always good news. Folks there think you’re cool for coming, and folks at home think you’re cool for going. Keeps a girl’s chin up to be called cool once in a while. And the audiences are terrific.”
www.devonsproule.com
www.myspace.com/devonsproule
Don’t Move are also signed to the Tin Angel label. This English band strike the perfect note between west coast pop, American bluegrass and the timeless jangle of The Smiths. www.mysapce.com/dontmove
