For Immediate Release
March 1, 2021
Roger Street Friedman to release new single, “Come What May,” on March 5th
Larry Campbell and Friedman team up again on production of new single
Upcoming livestream scheduled for March 9th
Sea Cliff, NY-based Americana singer-songwriter Roger Street Friedman is set to release a new single, “Come What May,” on March 5, 2021, via Nashville-based label Rock Ridge Music. It is the title track from a forthcoming EP, set for release this summer (more details and release date to be announced soon). The song and video are premiering at Americana Highways on March 3rd.
Friedman played and sang everything on the track except drums and backing vocals (he contributed guitars, piano and fretless bass), with Jim Toscano providing the drums and percussion, and Teresa Williams and Lucy Kaplansky singing background vocals. Produced by Friedman and Grammy-winning producer Larry Campbell (a longtime collaborator of Levon Helm), “Come What May” was mixed by Friedman and engineered by Fader Istheman. The video for the song was shot and edited by Friedman himself, as part of a pandemic undertaking to learn more about video creation and production.
Says Friedman about the song: “It’s a song about commitment. About having the epiphany that staying in a relationship – even when it’s hard, especially when it’s hard, actually – is what brings you closer together and makes the love even stronger. The song uses the road as a metaphor for traveling back to each other emotionally, ‘come hell or come what may.’”
Fans eager to see Friedman live can do so via livestream from his studio on March 9th at 8:30 p.m. eastern when he celebrates the release of “Come What May” with a performance on Americana Highways’ Facebook page as part of their “Live Music from the Quarantine” series.
“Come What May” is the follow-up to Friedman’s fall 2020 single releases, “Carry Me (Acoustic) feat. Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams and Lucy Kaplansky” (October 2020 release) and “Poison in the Cut” (September 2020 release). Earlier in 2020, Friedman released the album Rise, which was produced by Campbell. American Songwriter praised the “poise of the arrangements and perfected production,” while Goldmine Magazine called it “sumptuous… [with] affecting musical vignettes… Inspiring and infectious… striking and seductive… It’s the culmination of a career that’s seen his reputation elevated to upper strata of today’s most consistent Americana artists.” American Blues Scene was fond of the “honest, vulnerable songwriting that has won Friedman praise everywhere,” and Americana-UK espoused the “excellent songcraft,” dubbing it “delicate and beautiful.”
The award-winning singer-songwriter has consistently released honest, vulnerable songs that have won Friedman praise everywhere from USA Today to No Depression – reflective vignettes recalling the singer-songwriter tradition of Marc Cohn and Robbie Robertson, set to a blend of folk-rock, progressive Americana, and soulful R&B. Friedman was bitten by the music bug early, learning to write songs and even developing his studio engineering skills. It was an avocation, however, until a combination of events – the deaths of his father and mother, marriage, and, later, the births of his two children – steered Friedman back to music, leading to the acclaimed 2014 debut, The Waiting Sky, and 2017’s Shoot The Moon, which reached #2 on the Roots Music Report Americana Country Album Chart and spent 25 weeks in the top 20.
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