Glory, Hallelujah. A Prison Songbook, The Golden Glows’ first full album, will be released through Munich Records/V2.
The album will be available in Benelux stores & in our little webshop from March 19th onwards… iTunes as well.
Album release concert March 27th @ our much beloved De Monty [Antwerp]. Absolutely free of entrance, so you might want to come in early…
Halfway through the Lomax Theatre Tour, while cleaning our attic, this little soundsnippet fell out of a dusty trunk… an excellent 6 minute review of the Lomax Clubtour on national Radio 1 (auf niederländisch).
There’s a nice introduction to Alan Lomax and his legacy, a glowing Roland performing Lead Belly and a Golden review of the Glows.
Theatre Tour has five more stops in January 2012.
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On 1.11.11, interestingly enough, we added the 100th song to The Golden Songbook, our mother playlist. Yep, there’s a 100 titles in the book and we do play them all…*
Puttin’ On The Ritz, the Irvin Berlin 1928 classic, came in at #98 and will be a dazzlingly syncopated highlight in A Songbook from the 20′s.
#99, a new but kinda old Glows original, is a featherlight, yet deviously profound, Black & Blue. Dreamy lyric, blue note galore, perfect opener for The Songbook of Blues.
#100 is, of course, Afterglow. The soundtrack to our little piece of cinema. Very much in production as we speak.
(* In various shapes, sizes and numbers of mistakes…)
This fall A Tribute to Alan Lomax hits the road as a theatre tour. Roland plays a selection of Leadbelly, the Glows perform A Prison Songbook, their interpretation of prison work songs recorded by Lomax in the 1930′s and 40′s. From October to late January, we’ll be playing the next 10 venues:
14.10.2011 :: De Muze [Meise]
24.10.2011 :: Ter Vesten [Beveren]
04.11.2011 :: Het Koetshuis [Roosdaal]
18.11.2011 :: De Mol [Lier]
09.12.2011 :: Ter Dilft [Bornem]
23.12.2011 :: Cultuurcentrum Mechelen
19.01.2012 :: De Warande [Turnhout]
25.01.2012 :: Cultuurcentrum Brugge
26.01.2012 :: De Steiger [Boom]
30.01.2012 :: Cultuurcentrum Hasselt