Nashville, Tenn. (October 20, 2016 Press Release) – The Americana Music Association has premiered the video for Liz Longley’s acoustic version of “Swing," the latest single from her acclaimed new album,Weightless. Watch it here. Longley remarked, “I'm thrilled that the Americana Music Association is premiering ‘Swing.’ GRAMMY Award winning engineer Gary Paczosa invited me and my guitar into his Nashville studio to capture this song. After creating a full-sounding version on my new album, Weightless, it was fun to record a really stripped-down version of the song.” Longley recorded her new 10-song collection, Weightless, in Nashville with producer Bill Reynolds (Band of Horses, Avett Brothers, Lissie). She is joined by a vibrant group of musicians including Secret Someones’ drummer Zach Jones, Jimmy Wallace on piano (Gavin DeGraw, Kenny Wayne Shepherd), bassist Dave Roe (Dan Auerbach, Sturgill Simpson), and the esteemed Kenny Vaughan (Lucinda Williams, Rodney Crowell) on guitar. The New York Times’ Jon Pareles included the title track in the paper’s weekly Playlist feature. "The title song of the roots-rock songwriter Longley’s second album, Weightless, turns the prosaic part of a breakup — dividing up the possessions — into a rite of passage. 'You can have the couch, the lamp, the diamond ring/the books on the shelf, the dishes in the sink,' she itemizes over one repeated chord, and soon, with everything cleared out including the bad memories, the electric guitar digs in, the drums kick harder and the melody ascends to where she can be 'way up high beyond your gravity' — unencumbered and free." Listen to "Weightless" in The Playlist on Spotify.
The vinyl is due Nov. 11 and is available for pre-order here. Longley launched her tour in mid-September, and has been playing to venues packed with enthusiastic fans. She will continue to perform her “intriguing meld of folk, Americana, and pop” (AllMusic) with stops in Nashville, Atlanta and Los Angeles. She will perform tonight at McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston before heading to select stops on the east and west coasts. Weightless is available now. Amazon: http://smarturl.it/WeightlessAmz iTunes: http://smarturl.it/WeightlessiT Vinyl is available for pre-order at: http://smarturl.it/WeightlessLP
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