Amanda Shires has introduced Loving You, her new album with the late Bobbie Nelson, with a brand new cowl of the Gershwin customary “Summertime” that includes Nelson’s brother Willie. Loving You is due out June 23 by way of Silver Knife/ATO. Try the complete monitor listing and the video for his or her rendition of “Summertime” beneath.
The video was co-directed by Shires and Deren Ney and shot by photographer Joshua Black Wilkins and album producer Lawrence Rothman at Arlyn Studios in Austin, Texas. The studio is co-owned and operated by Nelson’s son Freddy Fletcher, who additionally performs drums on the album.
“I feel she associated to the music as a result of she was a mom and the household unit was vital to her, whether or not or not she had the idealized model,” Shires stated in an announcement. “I first noticed Bobbie taking part in after I was 16 or so at some competition someplace in Texas the place I grew up. I noticed her carry out many instances over time and at all times admired the way in which she performed so effortlessly and with a lot power and confidence. She radiated music. A lot of my path appeared doable as a result of I noticed a girl working and making a profession of music at a younger age, and that lady was Bobbie Nelson.”
Bonnie first recorded the music with Willie for his or her 2016 Grammy-winning report Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin. The siblings launched a memoir referred to as Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Household Band in 2020 by way of Random Home. She died final yr at 91.
Shires launched her final LP Take It Like a Man in 2022. In February she carried out the Take It Like a Man monitor “Hawk for the Dove” alongside her husband and frequent collaborator Jason Isbell.
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Loving You:
01 Waltz Throughout Texas
02 At all times on My Thoughts
03 Previous Long-established Love
04 Summertime [ft. Willie Nelson]
05 Angel Flying Too Near the Floor
06 Dream a Little Dream of Me
07 Tempted and Tried
08 La Paloma
09 Loving You
10 Over the Rainbow
