Jake Bugg releases his stunning new album ‘Hearts That Strain’, recorded in Nashville, September 1st on Virgin EMI. The first taste of which is the breezy single ‘How Soon The Dawn’, a collaboration with Dan Auerbach that was premiered by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1, August 2nd. Watch the video for ‘How Soon The Dawn’ HERE.
Working with Grammy Award winning producer David Ferguson and Matt Sweeney, Jake recorded the album in Nashville with some of the best players in the history of popular music. As part of American Sound Studio’s legendary house band The Memphis Boys, Gene Chrisman and Bobby Woods provided the chops on such pivotal records as Dusty In Memphis, In The Ghetto, Suspicious Minds and Dark End Of The Street, cutting their teeth in sessions with Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick.
“They’re old guys but they’re amazing,” Jake says. “It was ten to five and then that’s it. They'd pack up and we’d done two or three tunes. It was a mad vibe being from England and meeting these absolute legends and then cutting some tracks with them.”
Jake Bugg will step out for an intimate solo acoustic tour. In Belgium he will play in the beautiful Arenbergschouwburg in Antwerp on October 28th. Tickets go on sale August 11th. Check out the tour dates HERE.
Listen to ‘How Soon The Dawn’: HERE.
TRACKLISTING ‘HEARTS THAT STRAIN’
- How Soon The Dawn
- Southern Rain
- In The Event Of My Demise
- This Time
- Waiting
- Man On The Stage
- Hearts That Strain
- I Can Burn Alone
- Indigo Blue
- Bigger Lover
- Every Colour In The World