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New Fall Tour Dates

7/28/2015

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We can't wait! We'll be heading to the Burlington, VT show, and of course Boston!

Here are the last batch of dates released for our fall tour with @andersoneast Tickets will be available this Friday, July 31st. Nov. 5 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA Nov. 6 – Beachland Ballroom / Cleveland, OH Nov. 7 – Tralf Music Hall / Buffalo, NY Nov. 8 – Opera House / Toronto, ON Nov. 10 – Higher Ground Ballroom / South Burlington, VT Nov. 11 – House of Blues / Boston, MA

A photo posted by The Lone Bellow (@thelonebellow) on Jul 28, 2015 at 6:26am PDT

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Wayhome Facebook Q&A With The Lone Bellow 

7/3/2015

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Have a burning question to ask the band? Monday is your chance when they participate in a Facebook Q&A courtesy of the Wayhome Music Festival.
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Paste's Best Albums of 2015 (So Far)

7/2/2015

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Paste magazine has included The Lone Bellow's Then Came The Morning on its list of "The 25 Best Albums of 2015 (So Far)." They write, "But the most remarkable thing that this record proves is that when Zach Williams, Kanene Pipkin and Elmquist sing their hearts out together, this band is unstoppable."

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The Lone Bellow In Lineup for Eaux Claires Festival

2/11/2015

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The lineup for the inaugural Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival was announced today, and it is impressive, especially since it includes The Lone Bellow! The festival takes place July 17 and 18, and is hosted by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Bon Iver will be headlining along with The National and Sufjan Stevens.

Tickets are on sale tomorrow! Check out the whole lineup below.
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Tonight! The Lone Bellow at Union Square Barnes &Noble

2/10/2015

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I lived in NY for a while in the late 90s, and the Union Square Barnes & Noble was a regular hang out for me, usually after hitting the nearby Strand. I even applied for a job there, having worked at B&N in Houston, but was offered a job elsewhere before I could interview. So that store holds a special place in my heart.

I'm feeling especially nostalgic about that location today, since The Lone Bellow will be performing and signing CDs there tonight at 7pm. If you go, please share your favorite moments from the show with us, either here or on our Facebook page!
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Heaven Don't Call Me Home: An Interview with The Lone Bellow in PopMatters

2/2/2015

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"For example, “Fake Roses” takes the form of a letter from Williams’s mother-in-law to her sister. Williams explains, “They have pretty similar lives. And the letter basically says, ‘Your heart is breaking, I hear what it’s saying. You don’t have to tell me anything.’ And I was like, ‘Well where can we go with that?’ "
This interview with The Lone Bellow, by Annie Galvin, was published today on PopMatters. It delves more into the creation of Then Came The Morning, including working with Aaron Dessner, recording at Dreamland, and the inspiration for some of the songs. It includes some details we haven't heard before, such as the impetus for "Fake Roses:"

One night at South by Southwest, the Lone Bellow played to a packed backyard crowd at the Newport Folk Festival showcase, a crowd that obliviously sipped cans of Lone Star in Blackheart’s beer garden while the relatively unknown Lone Bellow set up and tuned. When the band’s first three-part harmony soared over its sturdy wall of acoustic sound, heads instantly rotated toward the rundown lean-to that had been converted into a stage.

The band captivated the crowd for the duration of its set, even cultivating a group sing-along to the anthem “Carried Away”. The experience of being in that crowd felt akin to attending an evangelist revival meeting: everyone was a convert by the end.

Galvin also writes about the time the band performed at South by Southwest in 2013.


We can certainly relate the that experience.
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Message to Fans from The Lone Bellow

1/30/2015

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Hey Guys,
 
The past 12 months have been a beautiful collision of writing, touring, and collaborating.  We've had the great honor of making our new record with producer Aaron Dessner, engineer Jon Low, and mixer Peter Katis.  
 
After several months of work, we finally released our new record titled "Then Came The Morning" just a couple days ago. The response has been absolutely overwhelming.  Thank you for all of your encouragement and help with spreading the word!  We don't want this time of celebration to slip by without acknowledging everything that has gone into the present.  You all have been an incredible support for us.  Because of listeners like you, we truly felt the freedom to make the album we wanted to make: an album that might be hard to put into a genre, an album whose songs and sonics came from pure imagination and freedom.  You are a major part of that being able to happen.

"Then Came The Morning" is available on iTunes and Amazon, as well as at Target, Barnes and Noble, and local record shops all over.  The MP3 version is nice, but we would like to encourage you to get the physical copy.  

We collaborated with our good friend and photographer Mackenzie Rollins to help us capture the vibe of the physical copy.  

Mackenzie flew down to the Deep South with one thing in mind--to help capture the visual aesthetic of what we've been referring to as "Southern Gothic" in our record.  This term floated around quite a bit during the recording process.  Many of the songs from the album come from stories of our own family members and heroes from our roots.  Mackenzie went to the homes of the actual people that some of the songs were written about.  She has a specific way of documenting moments and a strong discipline of listening.  She rented a car and drove all around the physical places where the distant memories of our roots still live: Lafayette and White, Georgia; Dixie Speedway, Old Car USA, and Louise's Diner in Marietta.  She would spend hours just sitting and waiting for a conversation to come to her.  For instance, the front cover of our album is the product of spending several mornings in a row at Louise's Diner. The beautiful soul in the picture is a woman she met who spends each morning eating breakfast there.  

We intentionally sought Mackenzie out because we wanted to pay our respects to the quiet, beautiful, soul-stirring, mundane stories of our roots.  Those pictures only live inside the physical copies of our album.  

Thank you for telling your friends and family about our new record.  We are honored that you listen to our music and can't wait to see how you make these songs your own.

Peace.
Zach, Kanene, and Brian
The Lone Bellow

One of the things we especially appreciate about The Lone Bellow has been how incredibly gracious they are with their fans. It comes out in their interactions with the audiences during their shows, they've spoken favorably of their fans in interviews, and we can't think of any show we've attended that they haven't given so much of their time meeting fans after. So it was much appreciated, though not surprising, to find a note from the band, sent out to their mailing list, thanking fans for their support. They also talk about the album's photographer, Mackenzie Rollins, and her process.

Here is the full note, in case you haven't seen it:

At the end, they share a link to the gallery from their photo shoot during the album's recording session at Dreamland. Be sure to check it out because the photos are stunning.
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What a busy week!

1/28/2015

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With the new album officially out (even though the blizzard stopped a certain someone from receiving her copy on time), The Lone Bellow has been super busy. We feel ridiculously proud of these guys, even though we've had nothing to do with their success. There's just something that makes us feel so happy to know of this band, and we just want to share the joy. We are going to try our best to keep up with all of the interviews, appearances, and anything else that comes up in the next few weeks. As for now, here's a little bit of a roundup. 

Over the weekend, we were pleasantly surprised to hear their interview on NPR's Weekend Edition. We are huge NPR nerds, so much so that it's a wonder we ever find time to listen to music! If you did not hear the interview, check it out here.

There's also this little promo, appealing to the Target shopper in all of us:




And, let's not forget that the band recently disembarked from their Cayamo cruise, which we wrote about here. Our friend and fellow The Lone Bellow fan, Holly, was kind enough to give us permission to share some of her photos from the fabulous trip. (We hope to have more to share from Cayamo, so stay tuned!)
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The Lone Bellow is on The Late Show with David Letterman!

1/26/2015

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Don't forget to catch The Lone Bellow on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight at 11:35pm ET! Let us know what you think!
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NPR Music First Listen - Then Came The Morning!

1/18/2015

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We can listen to Then Came the Morning in its entirety, a week before it's release, thanks to NPR Music's First Listen!

Stephen Thompson writes, "The Lone Bellow's songs lean toward the gigantic — at heart, Williams is a belter of the vein-bulging variety — but they're also impeccably played and nicely balanced by softer, subtler touches. Kanene Doheney Pipkin's contributions are crucial, whether she's bringing lilting touches to the sound on mandolin or singing lead in the sweetly languid 'Call To War.'"

What do you think?

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    We are Abra and Bobbie, two friends living in Boston who go to a lot of concerts together. We saw The Lone Bellow, having never heard of them, and could not believe our good fortune in discovering such talent. We now try to go by the "Four-Hour-Rule", meaning if we can get to a show within four hours, we will be there, hopefully right up front.

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