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Through their travels, the band has gradually landed on the themes to create this new album, a collection of songs that looks to the folklore and romance of the American frontier as a means of understanding our angst about what is yet to come. "Our goals for the record were to make something cinematic, romantic and American," band member Eric Holljes says. The record began as a concept album, a story of young lovers who fall on hard times during the recent recession, but throughout the process it became clear that Delta Rae's music had to tell stories as the band was personally experiencing them.
"We kept coming back to ourselves as we were writing," says Brittany Holljes. "These songs were integral to our own stories in our own lives. It had to be an honest reflection of what we were feeling instead of being projected onto characters we created."
The result is an epic 13-track album, created over the span of a year and a half, beginning in Los Angeles with Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Fleetwood Mac) in late 2013, continuing in Raleigh in the spring of 2014 and concluding with Peter Katis (Interpol, The National) in Bridgeport, CT during the fall of 2014. While the album has the same, distinctive "soft rock, bluesy style" that Billboard loved on the first record, the band pushed themselves to create something even bigger for After It All.
"We stretched ourselves immensely for this record," Brittany says. "You can feel everyone's heart in every moment. You can sense that all the pieces of the puzzle are important for the picture the album paints."
The track listing for After It All is:
- Anthem
- Run
- Outlaws
- The Dream
- Scared
- Chasing Twisters
- Bethlehem Steel
- Dead End Road
- You're the One For Me
- Cold Day in Heaven
- I Will Never Die
- The Meaning Of It All
- My Whole Life Long
- After It All
Pre-order After It All: http://smarturl.it/DRAfterItAll
Upcoming Tour Dates:
03/26 Brooklyn Arts Center - Wilmington, NC
03/27 Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, VA
03/28 The Americana Festival @ Weinberg Center for the Arts - Frederick, MD
04/09 Theatre of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
04/10 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
04/14 Webster Hall - New York, NY
04/17 Higher Ground - Burlington, VT
04/18 Royale Boston - Boston, MA
04/19 Sweetwater 420 Festival @ Centennial Olympic Park - Atlanta, GA
04/21 The Rivoli - Toronto, ON
04/23 Royal Oak Music Theatre - Royal Oak, MI
04/24 Metro Chicago - Chicago, IL
04/25 Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI
04/28 First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
04/30 Deluxe @ Old National Centre - Indianapolis, IN
05/01 City Winery - Nashville, TN
05/07 Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC
05/09 The Ritz - Raleigh, NC
Born in Nashville, bred in Seattle and now living in Brooklyn, I'm a writer with a passion for live music and discovering new artists. I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief of 2scene4thescene.com.