13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Gary Louris – Follow

Start your Sunday with jangle…here’s another new one from Gary Louris.

The song is Follow and it is the third track to be released from Gary’s upcoming solo album, Jump For Joy. Here’s the blurb with more:

Gary Louris has released “Follow,” an unabashed love song that speaks to the transcendent connection shared between two people. The latest single off his solo album Jump For Joy, which releases June 4 via Sham/Thirty Tigers, “Follow” is accompanied by a self-produced music video featuring home footage of Louris and his wife, Stephanie. The song was recently highlighted by Rolling Stone, who said “After years of exploring tangled heartbreak, Jayhawks singer-songwriter Gary Louris has written the most straightforward love song of his career.”

“This was originally a straightforward love song for no one,” says Louris. “However when my niece was married I rewrote it and performed it for their wedding dance. Now it has become an ode and testament to my lovely wife.” He continues, “It is a song of commitment, of partnership and a realization of when two people have that magical bond that cannot truly be explained in words.”

His first solo release since Vagabonds in 2008, Jump For Joy includes 10 never-before-released songs written, performed and produced entirely by Louris himself, as well as cover art illustrated by his son, Henry Louris. Louris has released two previous singles – the bouncy “Almost Home” and the breezy “New Normal,” which The New York Times called “a song that suits the pandemic’s sense of time: static but also vanishing.”

He recently spoke about the new album on The Adam Carolla Show and with American Songwriter, who called it “an intimate reconnection with the artist who does it all.”

Gary Louris has built a deeply compelling body of work as the lead singer/songwriter of seminal band The Jayhawks and co-founder of alt-rock supergroup Golden Smog, which has included members of Soul Asylum, Wilco, The Replacements and Big Star. He has produced records and contributed songs to GRAMMY Award-winning albums by Tedeschi Trucks Band and The Chicks, and recorded with a diverse group of acts including The Black Crowes, Uncle Tupelo, Joe Henry, Counting Crows, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Roger McGuinn, Nickel Creek and The Wallflowers.

Jump For Joy follows The Jayhawks’ 2020 release XOXO, which garnered high praise from press including HuffPost, Billboard, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, BrooklynVegan and more. The new album is available for pre-order here: https://orcd.co/jumpforjoy

Jump For Joy Tracklist

1. Almost Home
2. Living In Between
3. White Squirrel
4. New Normal
5. Mr. Updike
6. Follow
7. Too Late The Key
8. One Way Conversation
9. Jump For Joy
10. Dead Man’s Burden

 

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