New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Joan
Shelley releases her new album, Like the River Loves the Sea, following early, widespread praise from The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone and many others. In a new interview, Rolling Stone calls the record "one of the year's most beautiful," full of songs Stereogum says are "among the most softly devastating that
Shelley has ever recorded." In the same
September issue that features a six-page spread on
Shelley and the tree nursery she now inhabits just outside Louisville, Kentucky, Uncut Magazinegives Like the River Loves the Sea a 9/10 review. See what they and others are saying about the LP below.
In September, Joan
Shelley begins a US tour with over 30 performances of the new songs, ending with a just-announced show at Louisville's Bomhard Theater on December 13th. Find full dates, album credits, and more below.
Praise for Like the River Loves the Sea
"A vow of compassionate devotion...linking a personal bond to deeper tradition" - The New York Times
"Gorgeous, timeless, borderless music." - Rolling Stone
"In Shelley's luminous sonic landscape, love is akin to the earth itself, perpetually shifting through a cycle of life and death." - NPR Music
"There's a crystalline peace in the album...the musical complement to the dear friends and the wine, or as the thing that might make us feel a little better while everything comes apart." - Stereogum
"Stunning...a record for close acquaintances as it immerses the listener in intimate landscapes and shifting seasons" - MOJO
"Spellbinding…[Shelley] examines the necessity of finding something of beauty in the most testing circumstances." - Uncut, 9/10
"Shelley's longest album may also be her best, where she sounds most at home with herself and her songs." - No Depression
"The drama is so precise, so delicately rendered...the imagery is elliptical and elegant" - Q
"Awash with elements that evoke a mythic, even mystic, US south rarely conveyed so eloquently since Bobbie Gentry's late 60s purple patch" - Record Collector
Like the River Loves the Sea Credits:
All songs written by Joan Shelley
Produced by
James Elkington and Joan Shelley
Joan Shelley: classical, resonator, and acoustic guitars
Nathan Salsburg: acoustic and electric guitars
James Elkington: drums, bass, percussion, guitars, piano, Wurlitzer, JX3F synth, and harmonium
Sigrún Kristbjörg Jónsdóttir: violin and viola
Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir: cello
Albert Finnbogason: Wurlitzer (3)
Harmony vocals: Bonnie "Prince" Billy (2, 6), Cheyenne Mize (7, 8, 11), and Julia Purcell (7, 8, 11)
Recorded at Greenhouse and Iðnó in Reykjavik, Iceland by Albert Finnbogason.
Mixed by
Kevin Ratterman at La La Land. Mastered by Joe Lambert.
Additional recording by
James Elkington,
Daniel Martin Moore, and
Kevin Ratterman.
Joan
Shelley Tour Dates
8/30 - Naperville, IL - The Union ^
9/4 - Bloomington, IN - Landlocked
Music ^
9/6-9/8 - Louisville, KY - Pete Fest
9/13 - Madisonville, KY - Glema Mahr Center For The Arts
9/27 - Denver, CO - The Walnut Room ^
9/28 - Fort Collins, CO -
Elizabeth Hotel ^
9/29 - Colorado Springs, CO - Lulu's ^
10/3 - Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge
10/9 - Sisters, OR - Suttle Lodge
10/10 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
10/11 - Seattle, WA - Auditorium
10/12 - Bainbridge Island, WA - Treehouse Café
10/24 - Knoxville, TN - Open Chord *
10/25 - Nashville, TN - City Winery Lounge
10/26 - Atlanta, GA - Eddie's
Attic *
10/27 - Asheville, NC - Ambrose West
10/29 - Charlotte, NC - Stage Door Theater *
10/30 - Carrboro, NC - Back Room *
11/1 - Roanoke, VA - Spot On Kirk *
11/2 - Lexington, KY - The Burl *
11/6 - Cincinnati, OH - Southgate House *
11/7 - Nelsonville, OH - Stuarts Opera House *
11/8 - Thomas, WV - Purple Fiddle *
11/9 - Vienna, VA - Jammin Java
11/10 - Charlottesville, VA - The Southern *
11/13 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle *
11/14 - Brooklyn, NY - Park Church Co-Op
11/15 - Boston, MA - Cafe 939
11/16 - Woodstock, NY - Colony *
11/17 - Rochester, NY - Bop Shop Records *
11/19 - Toronto, ON - Drake
11/20 - Ann Arbor, MI -
The Ark *
12/4 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club #
12/6 - Sheboygan, WI - Paradigm Coffee #
12/6 - Stoughton, WI - Stoughton Opera House #
12/7 - Milwaukee, WI - Collectivo Coffee #
12/8 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk #
12/13 - Louisville, KY - Bomhard Theater *
^ w/ Nathan Salsburg
* w/ Jake Xerxes Fussell
# w/ Daughter of Swords.
