Posts Tagged ‘Willy Vlautin’

The DELINES – ” The Imperial “

Posted: February 10, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Richmond Fontaine‘s renaissance man Willy Vlautin returns with Amy Boone for the second Delines record following a long break from action caused by Boone’s 3 years of recovery following a Texas car accident. This promises more in the vein of 2014’s mesmeric Colfax – late-night, whisky-soaked tales of loss, love and heartbreak fed through a filter of lachrymose alt-country. Expect some magic. Where country meets soul and makes a new sweet golden sound of its own.

The second album from the Delines – it took three years to finish while vocalist Amy Boon (The Damnations, TX) recovered from a bad car accident. The players are keyboard/horn player Cory Gray, pedal steel player Tucker Jackson (The Minus 5) and a bunch of Richmond Fontaine band members namely Sean Oldham, Freddie Trujillo and of course novelist Willy Vlautin. All ten tracks are written by Willy Vlautin, recorded in Portland, Oregon and produced by John Morgan Askew.

A Fender Rhodes kicks in and you know you’re in a safe place. It’s lush resonant tones set the scene, a lap steel slides in to introduce a laconic but oh-so dulcet tune. Crying guitars present tales of broken hearts. Smooth soulful vocals and the sweet golden tones of a brass section complete the mellowest album this year so far.

reissued for Record Store Day 2020.

RICHMOND FONTAINE – ” Wake Up Ray / I Got Off the Bus “

Posted: December 11, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing To Go Back To by Richmond Fontaine

Twenty years into the band’s career, Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin is calling it quits to write more novels, but that’s what he’s been doing all along. Everything you need in a good story is here on this standout from their swan song: a rich and relatable tragic character, enough of a storyline to move the song but not too much to wrap things up too neatly, a world that doesn’t care, and a new assertion of that old truth that you can’t go home again.

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Track from the new Richmond Fontaine album ‘You Cant Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To” out March 4th 2015

RICHMOND FONTAINE – ” You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To “

Posted: January 28, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Willy Vlautin announces Richmond Fontaine’s final chapter –
“We all wanted to make one more record after The High Country. Our founding member, Dave Harding moving with his family to Denmark stopped us for a long while, but we were dead set on one more. I wrote You Can’t Go Back… to give an end piece for all the characters who inhabited the world of Richmond Fontaine over the years. Throughout the new record are hints of past RF albums and nods to past locations that the characters had found themselves in, and always they’re drifting and searching, hoping for a decent place to land. In the end they try to go back home where they were when Richmond Fontaine first began. It’s where the characters started and now where they’ll end. RF has had a great 20 + year run and these guys are my best pals so it’s a tough decision but the right one. We’ll tour this record for as long as we can and then we’ll a have a knock down drag-out party, wake up with a hangover, and move on.”
The new album is out this March and they have a European tour kicking off on April 3rd in Stockholm plus will have NW US dates announced soon

Pre-order the limited edition gatefold 180gr vinyl of the new Richmond Fontaine album now, out March 18th. Includes bonus cd with 8 exclusive tracks and poster. Regular edition and cd also available

THE DELINES – ” I Won’t Slip Up ”

Posted: June 8, 2014 in MUSIC, NOTTINGHAM CITY VENUES
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The Delines are probably a Americana supergroup with songs and stories from Willy Vlautin from Richmond Fontaine and the sublime heartbreak vocals from Amy Boon (Damantions) Jenny Conlee on keyboards (Decemberists) and band mate percussionist Sean Oldham (Richmond Fontaine) this is one special album Colfax is like a midnight confessional.