Midland will drop their latest music Barely Blue, an eight-song LP recorded with nine-time Grammy winner Dave Cobb at Georgia Mae Studios in Savannah, GA. Midland – comprised of lead singer/guitarist Mark Wystrach, bassist/vocalist Cameron Duddy and guitarist/vocalist Jess Carson – also shared the album’s opening track “Lucky Sometimes,” along with an official video directed by Harper Smith. The song follows the release of the band’s most recently track, “Old Fashioned Feeling.”
Cameron Duddy said of the upcoming EP, ‘Barely Blue’: “We knew we wanted to go somewhere else We are all big believers in a certain time and place, a sense of classic country that comes from roadhouses and bad coffee, miles and miles and miles on the road – and the idea that, even though we’re all happy, love and life falls apart, but that doesn’t mean you have to, too. When we were writing these songs, it was a trip into all the things in country music we love. You don’t hear much of this kind of unfiltered, hard stuff that comes with the great guitar sounds, the deep harmonies and shuffles you can tuck into. But that’s the essence of what Midland is – and Dave Cobb brought a new altitude to our sound.”
Wystrach added: “Dave Cobb had been a producer we wanted to work with since we first heard Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Dave’s eclectic musical background and the way he approaches recording as an experience and not a task made him the perfect match for us. On Barely Blue, we feel like Dave helped us find the sound we’ve been searching for for a long time.”. Wystrach also shared of the new song: “‘Lucky Sometimes’ is a get-up and go, hot streak, feel-good anthem for when it feels like you just can’t lose. The arrangement is sparse with a high and lonesome groove that crests with soaring harmonies on the hook. It’s the first song on the album and an introduction to the new sonic landscape that we found with Dave Cobb at the helm.”
The trio also revealed they will embark on The Get Lucky Tour, featuring supporting acts including Tanya Tucker, Solin Stough, Colby Acuff, Elvie Shane, Jackson Dean, and the Wilder Blue. The tour kicks-off on September 19th in Cincinnati and will hit iconic locations like Red Rocks Amphitheater on October 12th (with Jackson Dean) before culminating in a grand finale at the ACL Live in their hometown of Austin, TX on December 20th. For information on the The Get Lucky Tour, head here.
Check out the video for ‘Lucky Sometimes’ – here.
Barely Blue will drop on September 20th; to preorder, head HERE.
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