Pre-order now!  [Shipping starts March 19 2012]

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…

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.

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

The work is done: four intense studio days later, A Prison Songbook is in the can: we nailed down an album and two 3-track singles at a furious pace. Over-pleased with what we did: the album is going to sound glorious (kudos to everyone involved!). We went to extremes recording, survived a power-down by lightning and a heavy car crash on the way over (Goldie – she’s fine now, don’t worry), but when the glowing gets tough…

Album to be released 2012

We’re off to the deep pine forests of the Ardennes to (re)record A Prison Songbook. The Glows+ 3 will live in seclusion for a small week or so, working at the amazing studio La Chapelle…

The great voice of La Esterella will be eternally in our hearts and minds, the Antwerp singer with international acclaim in the 1950′s passed away last night. In her honor, we’d like to share a rare, long-forgotton but oh-so-gorgeous track she recorded on 78rpm back in the days.

It’s a grand 1950′s white spiritual called ‘Dank‘ or ‘Grace‘.

Her last note is simply breathtaking…

Dank u Esterella.