Richmond Fontaine Prep For The U.S. Release Of New Album
We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
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The little known but well respected Portland, OR based alt-country act Richmond Fontaine will release their eighth album, We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River, in the U.S. next month. The LP was produced by long time collaborator JD Foster (Calexico, Richard Buckner, Laura Cantrell), who was at the helm for the last three albums. Multi-instrumentalist Paul Brainard steps in with pedal steel, trumpet and piano while the core lineup of Willy Vlautin (guitars, vocals), Sean Oldham (drums, vocals), Dave Harding (bass) and Dan Eccles (guitars) remains.
We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River has already hit stores in Europe and will arrive on North American shores in September. Several notable British music magazines are already calling it one of the best albums of the year.
Uncut - "Raw, autobiographical brilliance" 5 stars
Q - "Eighth and best album from Oregon four-piece" 4 stars
Richmond Fontaine Tour Dates:
08/28/09 Fri The Kenton Club Portland, OR
09/04/09 Fri Electric Picnic Festival Stradbally, IR
09/05/09 Sat Muni Arts Centre Pontypridd, GB
09/06/09 Sun Railway Winchester, GB
09/07/09 Mon The Musician Leicester, GB
09/08/09 Tue The Cluny Newcastle, GB
09/09/09 Wed Stereo Glasgow, GB
09/10/09 Thu The New Roscoe Sheepscar, Leeds, GB
09/12/09 Sat Civic Hall Wolverhampton, GB
09/13/09 Sun End of the Road Festival Wiltshire, GB
09/14/09 Mon St. Bonaventures Bristol, GB
09/15/09 Tue The Maze Nottingham, GB
09/16/09 Wed Academy 3 Manchester, GB
09/17/09 Thu The Garage London, GB
09/18/09 Fri La Java Paris, FRA
09/19/09 Sat The Paradiso Amsterdam, NL
09/22/09 Tue White Trash Berlin, GER
09/23/09 Wed Vox Hall Arhus, DK
09/24/09 Thu Loppen Copenhagen, DK
09/26/09 Sat Roepaen Ottersum, NL
10/09/09 Fri Dante's Portland, OR
10/10/09 Sat Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA
10/15/09 Thu Cyprus Avenue Cork, IR
If you happen to not be familiar with Richmond Fontaine JamBase highly recommends you check out 2004's Post To Wire. Dig it here:
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