Luke Bell Premieres Self-Titled Thirty Tigers Debut with Southern Living, Album out Friday June 17

This Friday, June 17, the ranch hand turned troubadour Luke Bell will release a self-titled album via Thirty Tigers. Today, the album is premiering in its entirety with Southern Living, who said "Luke Bell has grabbed ahold of the throwback country dial and turned it all the way to 11 with his big, well-deep baritone and traditional arrangements that sound like they’ve been out all night at a honky tonk and haven’t bothered to clean up."
 
Stream Luke Bell via Southern Living:
http://thedailysouth.southernliving.com/2016/06/14/southern-living-exclusive-luke-bell-premiers-new-self-titled-album/
 
​Prior to moving to Nashville-via-Austin-via-New Orleans, Bell, a fifth-generation descendent of Wyoming homesteaders, studied agroecology at the University of Wyoming and playing music in front of crowds of folkies at the Buckhorn Bar by night. When the music started crowding out the classwork on crop science, he dropped out right after turning 21 and headed to the bright lights of Austin. 
 
“My life was kinda like a scene from Urban Cowboy at that point,” Bell recalls. “I was workin’ construction, sellin’ pizza coupons, shoein’ horses—whatever work I could find to pay the minimum bills of the apartment I was livin’ in. Other than that, I was just screwin’ around and playin’ shows; I had a rock ’n’ roll band for a while. Mondaynights at the Hole in the Wall was a residency with Ramsey Midwood, Mike and the Moonpies and Leo Rondeau. I was enamored of that honky-tonk scene; they had dollar-fifty High Lifes—that didn’t hurt, either.” 

Pre-order:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/LukeBell
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Luke-Bell/dp/B01EMP3UYG
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/luke-bell/id1108188382?ls=1

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