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H.C McENTIRE – ” One Great Thunder “

Posted: December 17, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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With her mega world tour in progress, H.C. McEntire thought it was a perfect time to unveil the music video for “One Great Thunder” from her debut solo album “Lionheart”. Shot while McEntire was in Los Angeles playing solo dates, it shows the North Carolinian bringing some calming Southern vibes to the metropolis that surrounds her.

Watch the previously released music videos for “Baby’s Got the Blues” and “Quartz in the Valley”, then head to the Merge Record store where we’ve got “Lionheart” on CD, LP, and limited-edition white Peak Vinyl.  There’s a ton of love, light, and friendship in and all around this record.

released January 26th, 2018 From the album LIONHEART, out now on Merge Records.

H.C. McEntire – ” Lionheart “

Posted: March 1, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Lyrically, H.C. McEntire a rare openly gay woman making country music  touches on spirituality, sexuality, politics and Southern culture, with much of Lionheart’s material written while the battle for LGBTQ rights intensified in North Carolina. So in “When You Come For Me,” when McEntire sings “Mama, I dreamed that I had no hand to hold. And the land I cut my teeth on wouldn’t let me call it home,” it’s comforting, inspiring even, to know that she has Phil Cook and Tift Merritt and William Tyler and others backing her musically. There is strength in numbers, and McEntire is a strong, centering presence in these songs.

HC McENTIRE – ” A Lamb, A Dove “

Posted: January 20, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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For her debut solo album “Lionheart”(out January 26th), H.C. McENTIRE found a creative catalyst in Kathleen Hanna. What began as an invitation from McEntire to have Hanna’s band The Julie Ruin perform at Girls Rock North Carolina’s 10th anniversary soon turned into a friendship and, ultimately, an artistic mentorship. “Quartz in the Valley”was the first song the two worked on together.

Revisit the lyric video for “A Lamb, A Dove” and you can pre-order “Lionheart” in the Merge Records store on CD, LP, and limited-edition white Peak Vinyl. In addition, we are offering the album bundled with a special screenprinted handkerchief created by McEntire, who will donate all profits from its sales to “Southerners On New Ground”.

H.C. McENTIRE – ” Quartz in the Valley “

Posted: January 18, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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You might not have heard of H.C. McEntire, but you’ll almost certainly know her collaborators; Kathleen Hanna, William Tyler and Angel Olsen to name just a few of the stellar accompanying cast. Currently best known as frontwoman of Mount Moriah, stepping out solo feels like a logical next step for H.C, a songwriter with the noble aim of reclaiming country music from, “the hetero-normative, homogenous schtick of tailgates and six-packs and men chasing women”.

The resultant album, “Lionheart”, is undeniably a record of turbulence and change how could any album about America released this year not be – but more than that it is a record about reclaiming your own power. Lionheart takes all the traditions of the American South, and sets about tearing them to pieces. As H.C. McEntire explains, “in music, there are no rules. You make your own language. You can be both the Southern rock outlier and the twangy gospel conduit. You can be both the cherubic, honey-tongued innocent and the ardent punk. To get here—to find my lion heart—I had to become them all”. Mainly though on Lionheart, despite all her influences, all her outfits, all her collaborators, H.C. McEntire sounds entirely like herself, and it doesn’t get much better than that.