LOS ANGELES (www.myspace.com/movementnashville) - Two years after the amicable split of
Sixpence None The Richer (who topped the charts with pop hits like "
Kiss Me" and "
There She Goes"), Leigh Nash prepares to step out on her own with BLUE ON BLUE, her debut solo album due out August 15 on One Son Records, her imprint label through Nettwerk Productions.
Produced by Pierre Marchand (Sarah McLachlan, Rufus Wainwright), Blue on Blue is a sweetly understated collection of musings on love and motherhood. Marchand's lush, warm production gives Nash's songs an earthy luster that carefully cushions her sweet, lilting voice. The pair also co-wrote two songs together, album opener "All Along The Wall" and "Between The Lines."
The road to creating her solo album was an uncertain one: "I knew I wanted to do a record on my own - I always knew I wanted to do that if the band were to break up. But then we actually did break up, and I hadn't necessarily seen that coming," recalls Nash. "It was a major life change for me because I had been with Sixpence since I was fourteen. I was 27 at the time, and I didn't know what I was going to do."
Unsure of what the future held, Leigh and her husband packed their bags and moved out west to LA, where she welcomed her son Henry into the world. With a change of scenery and newfound motherhood, Nash experienced a new sense of creative vitality and wrote a batch of songs that would eventually become Blue On Blue.
Nash, now living back in Music City, will spend the upcoming months gearing up for a North American fall tour. She is also involved in a project known as Movement Nashville, a small group of musicians that hope to dispel the myth that musically Nashville is limited to Country and Christian. The group performs mostly around Nashville but occasionally ventures out (https://myspace.com/movementnashville).