{"id":1383,"date":"2017-06-05T19:51:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2017-06-05T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:51:55","slug":"eliot-bronson-to-release-james-in-august-new-album-produced-by-grammy-award-winner-dave-cobb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/eliot-bronson-to-release-james-in-august-new-album-produced-by-grammy-award-winner-dave-cobb\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliot Bronson to release “James” in August; new album produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Cobb"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 5, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eliot Bronson to release\u00a0James\u00a0<\/em>in August<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New album produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Cobb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Atlanta-based award-winning Americana singer-songwriter Eliot Bronson is set to release his next album,\u00a0James<\/em>, on August 25, 2017 via Rock Ridge Music (with distribution via ADA).\u00a0\u00a0James<\/em>\u00a0was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton), who also produced Bronson\u2019s most recent, self-titled album. \u201cIt was a pleasure working with Eliot,\u201d says Cobb. \u201cHe is a brilliant lyricist and poet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDave Cobb\u2019s honesty and old-fashioned vibe were so appealing to me,\u201d Bronson says. \u201cThey leant themselves to the way I created. And, of course, it was a huge boost to have this great artist\/producer at your back.\u201d Cobb and Bronson had worked together previously on his 2014 release,\u00a0Eliot Bronson<\/em>. \u201cBut this album is different,\u201d Bronson points out. \u201cIt\u2019s more sparse and economical. My voice is stronger. And I think it\u2019s a step away from the purely Americana vibe of the last one in a direction that I have a hard time defining. I\u2019m excited to discover how this music will define itself.\u00a0 I’m immensely proud of this record. It\u2019s the best thing I\u2019ve done. I can\u2019t wait to share it with everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

James\u00a0<\/em>offers songs that are more like pictures than movies, capturing moments and digging deeply into their meanings. A stomping beat, raw harmonica and searing electric slide drives the opening track, \u201cBreakdown In G Major,\u201d followed by a selection of songs that only confirm Bronson\u2019s restless, escalating excellence.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood Enough,\u201d for example, captures a relationship in its final stage \u2014 a stage that may end tomorrow or stretch on for years. Bronson sings it sorrowfully, asking the rhetorical question of whether \u201c\u2018good enough\u2019 is good enough for you\u201d from this point. \u201cWhen I stumbled onto that line, I was like, \u2018That\u2019ll probably stick,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cBut I think the song really came from the first line, \u2018Were we really that young?\u2019 Sometimes it takes just one line to resonate with me and get me to start writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s \u201cThe Mountain,\u201d whose elusive grandeur delivers a powerful message but leaves it to the listener to parse its meaning. \u201cThere\u2019s a very literalist current in writing and music right now,\u201d Bronson observes. \u201cThere aren\u2019t a lot of layers to lyrics these days. It\u2019s just what you see on the page. So when you don\u2019t write that way, you get, \u2018What are you hiding?\u2019\u201d He laughs and then concludes, \u201cI don\u2019t look at it that way. For me, it\u2019s more about how you feel when you hear it. What does it do for you? That\u2019s the message!\u201d<\/p>\n

One more, \u201cRough Ride,\u201d is a departure for Bronson. Here, the meaning is clear: When 25-year-old Freddie Gray fell unaccountably into a coma in the back of a Baltimore police van, much of America expressed shock and outrage. So did Bronson, but he channeled those emotions into this song. \u201cI had mixed feelings about writing this because I don\u2019t like inserting my political or social beliefs into art,\u201d he explains. \u201cArt should be about connecting people, not drawing lines between them. But I was listening to Dylan\u2019s\u00a0Desire\u00a0<\/em>album at the time, especially \u2018Hurricane.\u2019 I always wanted to write a song like that. It was like, \u2018How can you tell a story almost journalistically with great emotional impact and yet not come off heavy-handed?\u2019 I wanted to see if I could do it. Now I\u2019m glad I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally from Baltimore, Bronson grew up in a religious household \u2013 both his father and grandfather were Pentecostal ministers \u2013 and Bronson found shelter in music. At age 15, he got his first guitar and started teaching himself to play. From local coffee houses and venues beyond Baltimore, Bronson sharpened his writing and performance. A local following grew; the\u00a0Baltimore Sun<\/em>\u00a0anointed him \u201ca folk singing wunderkind.\u201d Expanding his range, Bronson then toured as one-half of a duo. They moved to Atlanta, and when his partner quit, Bronson persisted on his own.<\/p>\n

Embraced for his 2014 self-titled album by the likes of\u00a0CMT Edge<\/em>,\u00a0Country Weekly<\/em>,\u00a0Guitar World<\/em>, Sirius XM\u2019s Outlaw Country,\u00a0Acoustic Guitar Magazine<\/em>\u00a0and more,\u00a0Paste Magazine<\/em>\u00a0called Bronson and his music \u201can Americana gem\u201d and \u201ca poetic blend of urban coffee house and outskirts-of-town saloon.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Glide Magazine<\/em>\u00a0named the album \u201cone of the best releases\u201d of 2014 and called Bronson \u201ca rock and roll, folk, country mash-up \u2026 [with] strong songwriting and lush vocals. \u2026Eliot Bronson is like a gorgeous, magnificent hybrid of [Ryan] Adams, Jason Isbell, and Jim James. \u2026his songs are so purely authentic and well crafted\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Saving Country Music\u00a0<\/em>praised Bronson for \u201ccapturing moments of spectacular insight and feeling, and giving words to what previously were thought to be unmentionable, and undefinable feelings, and doing it all with a deep sense of mood and melody that make the emotions drip from the edges of the notes like tears.\u201d\u00a0Bop n Jazz<\/em>\u00a0upped that ante by heralding him as \u201cmaybe the best singer\/songwriter since Dylan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bronson has released three critically acclaimed solo albums and, prior to his solo career, was a member of The Brilliant Inventions. He has won such esteemed songwriting awards as first place at Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest and Eddie Owen Presents \u201cSongwriter Shootout,\u201d and he\u2019s been a finalist at Kerrville Folk Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriting Contest, and New Song Contest Lincoln Center NYC.<\/p>\n

Bronson plans to tour in support of his new album.\u00a0 Confirmed tour dates are listed below.\u00a0 More tour dates will be announced soon.<\/p>\n

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Eliot Bronson Tour Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sat 6\/24 \u2013 Eddie\u2019s Attic \u2013 Decatur, GA (two shows opening for The Roosevelts)<\/p>\n

Sat 7\/1 \u2013 The Bluebird Caf\u00e9 \u2013 Nashville, TN (in-the-round w\/Michael Logen + others)<\/p>\n

Thu 7\/6 \u2013 Camp House \u2013 Chattanooga, TN (w\/Michael Logen)<\/p>\n

Fri 7\/7 \u2013 Open Chord \u2013 Knoxville, TN (w\/Michael Logen)<\/p>\n

Thu 7\/20 \u2013 Country \u2013 Nashville, TN (in the round)<\/p>\n

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www.eliotbronson.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 5, 2017 \u00a0 Eliot Bronson to release\u00a0James\u00a0in August \u00a0 New album produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Cobb   Atlanta-based award-winning Americana singer-songwriter Eliot Bronson is set to release his next album,\u00a0James, on August 25, 2017 via Rock Ridge Music (with distribution via ADA).\u00a0\u00a0James\u00a0was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb … <\/p>\n

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