Today Wayne Graham release their second single ‘By And By’ from the album ‘Songs Only A Mother Could Love’. The full record will be available for streaming on May 31.
“ The sublime Americana of the brothers […] takes a while until it enfolds its full splendor. But then you want to listen to these songs between J.J. Cale and The Band, gentle blues and smoldering folk-rock, again and again.” (Rolling Stone 1/2019)
Our new & exclusive Record Store Day Germany Release WAYNE GRAHAM‘s – songs only a mother could love – LP comes April 13th.
We have just a very few copies left here for buyers outside Germany, Austria, Swiss and Scandinavia. So if you want one of those fine record please write us a mail to elmer (at) hometowncaravan.de Thanks
The third record of our WAYNE GRAHAM trilogy comes as RECORD STORE DAY only release on April 13rd, 2019. We pressed a limited number of pieces (400 copies) on bone-white vinyl. So save your copy in your favorite recordstore as soon as you can. Damn, so great new songs again. The guys coming to Europe this summer so check the TOURDATES section for all the information about.
Two albums of the band Wayne Graham were necessary for Germany’s most intransigent music critics to fully embosom them and their music. Wayne Graham is a folk-rock band from Whitesburg, Kentucky, and almost unknown even in their home state. They are not a band for grand gestures, they are understated, subtly cantankerous but somehow they always remain catchy and timeless. Their secret is as perfidious as it is simple. They make records which invoke the urge to listen to them again and again. Records that do not impose – that reveal their secrets little by little.
Wayne Graham is the band of two brothers, apparently bestowed with infinite creativity and talent, that still write, record and produce in the basement of their parents’ home. They still live in Whitesburg, a former mining hicksville, in one of the poorest regions of the USA. When they were kids, they backed their father, who once founded a church there and now has a small business as a repair service for electronics, on drums and bass at his church services.
“Songs Only A Mother Could Love” is going to be released only eight months after their latest album “Joy!” which has marked a modest break trough of the band. This summer they play on some of the most selected festivals in Germany. Rolling Stone critiques and readers have chosen “Joy!” as one of the best records of 2018:
“The sublime Americana of the brothers […] takes a while until it enfolds its full splendor. But then you want to listen to these songs between J.J. Cale and The Band, gentle blues and smoldering folk-rock, again and again.” (Rolling Stone 1/2019)
“Songs Only A Mother Could Love” forms a trilogy with “Mexico” (2016) and “Joy!” (2018). However, singer and songwriter Kenny Miles sees the upcoming album as more of a prequel to these two, because it is a collection of songs which, for various reasons, were never finalized during the recording of these albums. As their label, one shed some tears when songs like “House I’ll Never See” or “Silver Spoon” vanished from the track list at some point in the process. There are live favorites from previous tours which never got recorded (“By and By”, “Two Minutes”). And some songs that never even found their way over as demo versions. “Flower Store” for example is an almost classical Americana piece, with lyrics so perfectly writ and woven into the fabric of the music – another song that makes you wonder why Wayne Graham is not a household name in every dusty American Jukebox.
The new album is a family matter. Dedicated to their mother. The eponymous grandfathers Wayne and Graham are staring grumpily from the LP-labels. The cover shows mother Kim, lovingly glancing back over her shoulder towards her two sons on the backseat of the car. The whole album was finished in the course of mere weeks in fall 2018.
“Songs Only A Mother Could Love” is being released on the 13th of April 2019 in the framework of the Record Store Day – strictly limited to 400 copies of bone-white vinyl with inside-out cover print, download code and lyrics sheet.
“You sewed the flag they carried to the moon / You are my favorite silver spoon.”
Wayne Graham live 2019
—präsentiert von Rolling Stone und ByteFM—
13.06. Berlin – Monarch
14.06. Mannheim – Maifeld Derby
16.06. Duisburg – Traumzeit Festival
18.06. Hamburg – Knust
19.06. Hannover – Béi Chéz Heinz
25.06. Prag (CZ) – Kasárna Karlín
26.06. Wien (AT) – Fluc
27.06. München – Glockenbachwerkstatt
28.06. Lindau – Zeughaus
29.06. Leipzig – Parkbühne Geyserhaus ( w/ Gisbert zu Knyphausen)
28.07. Lörrach – Stimmen Festival ( w/ Kiefer Sutherland)
(to be continued)
Heated Land’s second record ‘in a wider tone’ is out now. You can order this great piece of record as Digisleeve CD and Vinyl in our shop.
Heated Land live
15.02. Leipzig – Plaque +++ 16.02. – Zittau – Emil +++ 17.02. Hof – Dachbodenkonzerte +++ 18.02. Dresden – Ostpol +++ 19.02. Darmstadt – Schlosskeller +++ 20.02. München – Glockenbachwerkstatt 22.02.19 Köln -Weltempfänger +++ 23.02.19 Hannover – Lister Turm +++ 24.02.19 Offenbach – Hafen 2 +++ (wird fortgesetzt)
We are really proud to have our longtime buddy AUSTIN LUCAS back on Hometown Caravan.
We will release his brandnew album ‘Immortal Americans’ on November 23rd.
Vice / Noisey says about ‘Immortal Americans’: ‘…is a meditation on the darkness and light of growing up in a blighted Rust Belt…’
Preorder starts soon!
Our good horses GARDA from Dresden, Germany will put out their new & majestic record ‘Odds’ September 27th.
The Band will enter the road too:
SEP 29 2018 – DE, Dresden, Beatpol
OCT 20 2018 – DE, Braunschweig, Staatstheater Braunschweig
OCT 23 2018 – DE, Berlin, Funkhaus Berlin
OCT 24 2018 – DE, Rostock, JAZ e.V.
OCT 26 2018 – DE, Jena, Kassablanca Jena
OCT 27 2018 – DE, Karlsruhe, NUN Kaffeehaus
DEC 19 2018 – DE, Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
JAN 19 2019 – DE, Erfurt, FRANZ MEHLHOSE
JAN 20 2019 – DE, Leipzig, die naTo
FEB 20 2019 – DE, Nuremberg, club stereo
FEB 21 2019 – DE, Ulm, ROXY.ulm
FEB 22 2019 – DE, Esslingen, @Dieselstrasse Kulturzentrum
– more dates to be announced soon –
today the new Wayne Graham record ‘Joy!’ comes out.
You can order this awesome album through our new K&F Shop.