Ahead of the release of his upcoming album Love and Blood released Friday July 28th, triple ARIA award winning singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson today shares new video for single ‘Safe’ and announces dates to his National album tour kicking off in July.
Nicholson’s sixth solo studio album was written on the Hawkesbury River in NSW late last year. Most of the songs on Love and Blood were conceived there, sometimes in one sitting, sometimes over several visits. However long it took, the singer found the isolation of the setting a tonic for his creative juices. One of the gems he came up with on the river is the current single ‘Safe’.
Love and Blood album follows Shane’s 2015’s ARIA Award-winning masterpiece Hell Breaks Loose. The Central Coast-based singer has kept the winning formula from that album for Love and Blood, opting once again to work with his good mate, producer Matt Fell, at his Sydney studio Love Hz and assembling a familiar cast of musicians. Included on the album is drummer Josh Schuberth and multi-instrumentalist Glen Hannah, as well as new face horn-player supreme James Greening who adds his delicious slab of New Orleans blues with a swagger to several tracks. Lending their vocals on the album are Josh Pyke, Andrew Swift, Fanny Lumsden and Imogen Clark plus the king of Americana music, Nashville legend Buddy Miller.
Of course in a recording career spanning 17 years Nicholson has grown to be something of a master too. Since making his debut with Brisbane band Pretty Violet Stain in 2000, Nicholson’s career has gone from strength to strength, with numerous ARIAs and Golden Guitars collected along the way for albums such as Familiar Ghosts (2008), Bad Machines (2011) and Hell Breaks Loose, as well as for Rattlin’ Bones (2008) and Wreck & Ruin (2012), the two much-lauded collaborations with Kasey Chambers.
Nicholson says the title Love and Blood “seemed to sum up what the album’s about when I put all the songs together.”
Now he’s looking forward to taking these songs and the many others from his distinguished back catalogue on the road in August. The singer found renewed enthusiasm for the touring life on the back of Hell Breaks Loose, so he’s keen to do more of it with the new one.
LOVE AND BLOOD ALBUM TOUR
July 27 Camelot Lounge, Marrickville NSW
July 29 Broadbeach Country Music Festival QLD
July 30 Broadbeach Country Music Festival QLD
Aug 2 Ararat Live VIC
Aug 3 Spotted Mallard, Brunswick VIC
Aug 4 Caravan Club, Oakleigh VIC
Aug 5 Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club VIC
Aug 11 Anita’s Theatre, Thiroul NSW
Aug 12 Harmonie German Club, Canberra ACT
Aug 18 Music Lounge, Brookvale NSW
Aug 19 Lizotte’s, Newcastle NSW
Aug 20 Hardys Bay Club, Central Coast NSW
Aug 25 Dalrymple Hotel, Townsville QLD
Aug 26 Edge Hill Tavern, Cairns QLD
Sept 1 Rooty Hill RSL NSW
Sept 8 Flow Bar, Old Bar NSW
Oct 13 Trinity Sessions, Adelaide SA
Oct 14 Song Room, Barossa Regional Gallery SA
Oct 16-23 Rock The Boat Pacific Cruise Pacific
Oct 28 Welcome to Morrisonville, Brisbane QLD