Song Premiere: Chad Elliott & The Redemptions "Rest Heavy"

Credit: Michael Gruich

Iowa singer-songwriter, artist and author, Chad Elliott will release his new album, Rest Heavy: The Sun Studio Sessions on August 10, 2018. With Rest Heavy, Elliott shows his love of roots-rock, soul, and blues music with songs that weave love, loss, and forgiveness with timeless melodies. The self-produced album was recorded by Ples Hampton at the famed Sun Studio in Memphis with Hampton noting, “It was honestly one of the best sessions I've ever had up here. This is gold.”

​Today, TDC is pleased to premiere the album's title track, a modern gospel love song written on Easter Sunday that grabs your heart and soul with its classic harmonica-infused melody, tempered backbeat, and Elliott's gravelly yet warm delivery that nods to the memory of the greats who made their mark at Sun. 

"I rest heavy every night
Ever since you came to my life
I was so lost before that day
Now with you I know the way"

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Chad Elliott has released 22 albums including The Den Sessions in 2010 which is a ten-volume set. His most recent being RINGGOLD (2017) and Wreck and Ruin (2015). He has been featured on Iowa Public Radio’s Java Blend (“rootsy, gravely growl and impressive, tasteful guitar work”), showcased at Folk Alliance International, composed and performed music for several IPTV documentaries, and won prestigious awards, such as the Woody Guthrie Song Contest (2009).

Elliott performs more than 200 shows each year and is lauded as “Iowa’s Renaissance Man” by Culture Buzz. He has cultivated over 1,000 songs in his career while also honing his skills as a painter, sculptor, and children's book author/illustrator (Wilderman’s Treetop Tales). He recently published a poetry book, Rumble & Flash.

Rest Heavy Track Listing:
1. Rest Heavy  (3:12)
2. Shy of Shameless  (5:23)
3. Hills of Tennessee  (3:29)
4. Shining Stars  (4:22)
5. Cadillac Problems, Buick Times  (4:56)
6. Alberta  (4:20)
7. Slow Again  (3:47)
8. Dirty River (Catfish Blues)  (3:45)
9. Embarcadero Street  (5:08)
10. Water Under the Bridge  (7:06)
11. St. James Infirmary  (6:21)

Chad Elliott - vocals, electric guitar, harmonica
Tommy Lewis - electric guitar, harmonica, vocals, track 10 chorus
Travis McFarlane - piano, B3 organ, keys, track 10 chorus
Kevin Boehnke - acoustic guitar, trumpet, track 10 chorus
Joseph Cafaro -  upright bass, track 10 chorus
Jim Van Dorn - drums (all), track 10 chorus
Roger D. Feldhans - track 10 chorus

All songs written by Chad Elliott except “St. James Infirmary” (Anonymous)

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