The Delines

About

Thursday 5 May 2022 | 7pm
Metronome
Tickets - £20.00
Age guidance: 14+ (under 16's must be with an adult)

Following a sold out show at Metronome in 2020, country-soul outfit, The Delines return to Metronome, Nottingham with new material for this special date with the full line-up. The band hails from Portland, Oregon where they have been working on new material over the past months before the lockdown which is set to be finished shortly. Jerry Joseph will be supporting and has just recorded his new album with the Drive-By Truckers featuring Jason Isbell which will be out this August 21st on decor. 

When the band released their first album The Imperial, it went straight in at number 1 where it stayed for two weeks and a further two in the top 4. The entire UK and Irish tour sold out and the press and radio loved it. It picked up where they left off following their stellar 2014 debut, Colfax. Like that album, The Imperial features Damnations, TX co-founder Boone evoking a beat-up Dusty Springfield or a weary Rickie Lee Jones on 10 tracks penned by Vlautin, who is also lead singer/songwriter for Richmond Fontaine whom broke up in 2016 and an acclaimed novelist (two of his books have become major films).

Equally adept at sounding broken-hearted and optimistic, weary and resilient, Boone conveys Vlautin's characters in a voice that's grittier than Bobbie Gentry's and more lonesome than Sammi Smith's, and steeped in the soul-ballad tradition. It's the voice Vlautin fell in love with when he first heard it during a tour Richmond Fontaine did with Damnations, TX, the band Boone had formed with her sister, Deborah Kelly.

Portland's Freddy Trujillo signed on to play bass. Sean Oldham ex of Richmond Fontaine on drums, multi-instrumentalist Cory Gray stepped in to round out the band's cinematic, late-night country-soul sound with keyboard and trumpet.