Leif Vollebekk Premieres New Song With Rolling Stone - US Debut Out 1/28/14

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Missing Piece Group) On January 28th, the Montreal-based songwriter Leif Vollebekk will release his sophomore album and US debut North Americana.

Yesterday, Rolling Stone premiered the album's first single "When The Subway Comes Above The Ground" which you can check out here: https://rol.st/17xJyvv

"This song is about a lot of things - from driving to the place where Jeff Buckley drowned, to forgetting some wonderful late-night conversation I once had," Vollebekk tells Rolling Stone. "It was supposed to end with a fade-out, but the violin just kept playing and sounded so good, we let it go."

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The songs on North Americana were always recorded live, to tape. To find these moments, Vollebekk traveled to Montreal's legendary Hotel 2 Tango studio, working with Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor) to New York City, working with Tom Gloady (Ryan Adams, Sigur Rós, Patti Smith) to La Frette studios, in La Frette-sur-Seine, France. Vollebekk even tried recording with John Simon, whose credits include Music from Big Pink and Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Pop Matters said "[Vollebekk's voice] lingers on the fray with a sort of devilish charm reminiscent of Blood on the Tracks-era Dylan." Leif was also featured on CBC's Q with Jian Ghomeshi, where he performed songs from North Americana: