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Nels Andrews
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'Scrimshaw' - #14 - The Lonesome Drifter's Best Albums of 2012
Nels Andrews has spent the last decade wandering, gathering songs, and singing them all over the globe, sharing them around campfires, coffeeshops, clubs , festivals, and living room floors. Modern Folk. He will be touring with his long time sideman Brandon Seabrook on banjo and mandolin (Brandon was named by the Village Voice's critics as 'Best Guitar Player 2012' )
Critically, he’s struck a nerve, earning songwriting awards from prestigious US festivals such as Kerrville, Telluride, and Mountain Stage. BBC 2's legendary DJ Bob Harris recognized his work as an album of the year. He has been in the top 5 of the year Americana UK charts, as well as KRO Dutch National Radio, Alt-country NL, Ctrl Alt Country (Belgium), and the European Radio Americana Chart . Nels’ premiere album Sunday Shoes continued to find itself in Top Ten albums of the year lists, almost always as the only independent release. His second album, Off Track Betting, received similar critical acclaim, leading to headlining shows at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, and national television broadcast from the legendary Bim Huis in Amsterdam.
Nels has just released his third studio album ‘Scrimshaw’, joining up once again with acclaimed producer Todd Sickafoose (Tiny Resistors, Anais Mitchell, Ani Difranco, Andrew Bird, Yoko Ono) and , features his touring band Jonathan Goldberger (Tiny resistors) and Brandon Seabrook (Peter Evans, Mark Ribot, Trevor Dunn) and wildly talented friends from all over the country. The record was recorded overlooking the Naval Yards in Red Hook Brooklyn, and tells stories culled from a time off the road, working as a chauffeur in Manhattan and watching his infant son grow into a toddler in his Brooklyn apartment.
Nels has shared stages across the US and Europe with the likes of Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Dick Gaughan, Slaid Cleaves, and The Tallest Man on Earth , and twice on the main stage at Holland's TakeRoot festival, The Big Big Country festival in Glasgow, Scotland, and The Orange/Vodaphone Evolution festival in Newcastle, England
"On a par with James Taylor and Jackson Browne - one of the best." Promoter (Grateful Fred’s 2013)
"He has the rare ability to conjure entire vistas and characters in no more than a couple of lines. His songs are music as landscape, timeless tales that instantly take root in your mind as though they've been there forever. In fact, if Annie Proulx wrote songs she would sound like Nels Andrews." Americana UK
"Nels will be touring the UK in the later half of April 2013. Miss it at your peril!" Folking.com
"One of The Best Albums of the year" Bob Harris, BBC Radio2
“Sparsely arranged, slyly intelligent country-folk stuffed with juniper winds, Juarez jails and long women in short dresses, delivered with all the gruff urgency of Tom Waits over lap steel and ruptured guitar.” UNCUT ****
'The nine songs are a delight. Scrimshaw is full of good music, deft singing and clever, original lyrics' (4/5) - The Telegraph 2012
“The audience hang on his every word, recognizing that they’re in the presence of someone special, and he could have played encores forever. Instead he contents himself with just the one, and heads off into the night, leaving behind awe, wonder and satisfied minds.” Americana UK Live Review, The Maze, Nottingham
Discography
Sunday Shoes - 2005
Off Track Betting - 2008
Scrimshaw - 2011
UK Tour Dates
April 2013
16th The Green Note presents Songwriters Circle @ The Old Queens Head, Islington, London (Nels Andrew, Peter Mulvey & Allison Russell)
17th Henry Tudor House, Shrewsbury,
18th John Jones presents @ The B-Bar, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
19th No 8 Café, Launceston, Cornwall
20th The Chattery, Swansea, Wales
21st The Forge @ The Anvil, Basingstoke
24th Greenbird Promotions presents Nels Andrew @ The Musician, Leicester
25th Fallen Angle Club present Nels Andrew @ The Admiral Bar, Glasgow
26th Abington Hotel, by Biggar, Lanarkshire (with AJ Roach )
27th House Concert @ 42, Edinburgh (with AJ Roach)
3rd Grateful Fred’s, Liverpool