Israel Nash, Texas’ Hill Country troubadour, today premieres the video for “Lucky Ones,” the second single from his upcoming new album, Lifted, out July 27th, 2018 via Desert Folklore Music/Thirty Tigers. Premiering with Culture Collide the video is a look into Nash’s life on his ranch in the Texas Hill Country, illustrating the inspiration he finds in the landscape, from his family, his home studio Plum Creek Sound, and found sounds he recorded and used throughout the album. Israel Nash and his band kick off an extensive album release tour on Lifted‘s release date at Austin’s Scoot Inn, and hits 25+ markets across the country, including three new headline dates announced today in Louisville, KY, San Louis Obispo, CA, Fort Collins, CO and a stop at the inaugural Holler On the Hill Festival in Indianapolis, IN this September. All confirmed dates are listed below, with tickets on sale now at www.israelnash.com
WATCH/EMBED “LUCKY ONES” HERE
On Lifted, Nash set out to create a listening experience that was almost an immersive representation of his environment, recording drums played in rain collection tanks, water rushing against the limestone, frogs, crickets, and even a rattlesnake. Taking inspiration from methods pioneered by John Cage, Nash then randomized the sounds and music before rearranging them according to the I Ching (The Book of Changes). Using the “Lucky Ones” video as a nod to these methods, Nash describes, “Lucky Ones’ is a song about everything being connected — people, nature, the whole thing and beyond. I wanted the video to illustrate those vibes I feel when I’m here in my place. On the ranch, with my family and my studio, Plum Creek Sound out here in the Hill Country, where I live and create… and sometimes when I get to wear a white suit and forage the land for its sacred sounds and visions!”
Lifted, a modern day hippie-spiritual, finds Nash continuing his tradition of creating a sonic landscape that is at once both vast and intimate – soaring and untamed at times, placid and sincerely personal at others. Accompanied by his longtime band, with arrangements by Jesse Chandler (Mercury Rev, Midlake), horns by members of Austin’s cumbia/funk compadre’s Grupo Fantasma, and strings from Kelsey Wilson and Sadie Wolf (Wild Child), Nash, alongside co-producer and engineer Ted Young (Kurt Vile, The Rolling Stones), presents an album that soars with meticulously crafted, multi-hued rock and psychedelia.
The album was recorded at Israel Nash’s studio, a Quonset hut structure called Plum Creek Sound at his home in Dripping Springs, Texas. During the process the studio became a sanctuary for Nash, a creative environment where he often reached a meditative state of escapism, creating a space where he could leave behind his downhearted feelings about the current political landscape and the bigger, existential questions those concerns raise.
Lifted, Israel Nash’s opus, is a fully realized, psychedelic, experimental, Americana rooted epic. By immersing oneself in Lifted, one can see Nash succeeds in a way that’s exquisite yet spiritually satisfying. Nash welcomes you to join him on his uplifting path – one he’s taken throughout his career, now continuing on a higher, imaginative plane.
LIFTED TRACKLISTING
1. Rolling On (Intro)
2. Rolling On
3. Looking Glass
4. Lucky Ones
5. Sweet Springs (Intro)
6. Sweet Springs
7. SpiritFalls
8. Northwest Stars (Out Of Tacoma)
9. Hillsides
10. The Widow
11. Strong Was The Night
12. Golden Fleeces
ISRAEL NASH ON TOUR
JULY
27 – Scoot Inn – Austin, TX+
31 – Club Dada – Dallas TX
AUGUST
1 – South On Main – Little Rock, AR
2 – Off Broadway – St. Louis, MO^
3 – Crossroads – Kansas City, MO*
4 – Raccoon Motel – Davenport, IA
5 – Palace Theatre – Minneapolis, MN*
7 – Bluestem Amphiteater – Moorhead, MN*
SEPTEMBER
11 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA
12 – Americana Fest – Nashville, TN
13 – Americana Fest – Nashville, TN
15 – Rumba Cafe – Columbus, OH
16 – Pike Room at the Crofoot – Detroit, MI
18 – Schubas – Chicago, IL
19 – The Back Room at Colectivo – Milwaukee, WI
20 – Turf Club – Minneapolis, MN
23 – Mountain Stage – Charleston, WV
25 – Rough Trade – Brooklyn, NY
26 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
27 – Jammin Java – Vienna, VA
28 – Club Cafe – Pittsburgh, PA
30 – Roots N Blues BBQ Festival – Columbia, MO
OCTOBER
10 – Moroccan Lounge – Los Angeles, CA
14 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR
16 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA
18 – State Room – Salt Lake City, UT
20 – Globe Hall – Denver, CO
+ with Feverbones & Curtis Roush
^ with Old 97’s
*with Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
