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Salim Nourallah\u2019s fourth pre-album EP,\u00a0South<\/em>,\u00a0scheduled for release on September 7th<\/p>\n Final pre-album bundle to be released in advance of album<\/strong> Bundle four, entitled\u00a0South<\/em>, is set for release on September 7, 2018.\u00a0 Included on this release are two tracks that will also appear on\u00a0Somewhere South of Sane<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cTucumcari\u201d (a full-band version only available on the EP and the\u00a0Sane\u00a0<\/em>CD version) and \u201cSweet As a Weed\u201d \u2013 as well as a special bonus track entitled \u201cJoykillers.\u201d \u00a0There will be two videos accompanying this bundle \u2013 a clip for the song \u201cTucumcari\u201d and one for \u201cSweet As a Weed\u201d \u2013 and they will premiere the week of\u00a0South<\/em>\u2019s release.<\/p>\n Nourallah explains \u201cTucumcari\u201d: \u201cI was raised in the Southwest. Tucumcari is a small town in New Mexico my family passed through on several occasions when I was a kid. There is a lone mountain just outside of Tucumcari with a tragic Apache legend attached to it. Basically, everyone dies for love. I hadn\u2019t thought of Tucumcari since I was a kid, so it was cosmically strange when I woke up one morning singing the word Tucumcari over this melody I\u2019d come up with the night before. It seemed to have come out of nowhere. The lyrics were inspired by something John Lennon said in the 1970s about long-term relationships being like climbing mountains. The analogy stayed with me many years until it somehow found its way into this song.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSweet As a Weed\u201d came out of a trip Nourallah took to the Show-Me State. \u201cI was having pre-gig chips and salsa with a friend in Malden, Missouri,\u201d Nourallah recalls. \u201cWe were talking about my daughter when he proclaimed, \u2018Well, she\u2019s about as sweet as a weed!\u2019 I nearly spit out\u00a0a chip. \u2018What? Is that actually a saying?\u2019 It was baffling to me. Weeds aren\u2019t sweet! He swore it was a legit Southern saying after I grilled him on it. I stuffed it away in my file of things to consider for songs. A year later, I was fooling around with a guitar figure in drop B tuning. The first words out of my mouth were, \u2018Sweet as a weed…\u2019 The words are not about my daughter though. They ended up being about a kind of woman I\u2019ve always been drawn to – especially in song, one of the first of those songs being, \u2018For No One,\u2019 on The Beatles\u2019\u00a0Revolver<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJoykillers\u201d was born from both memories of Nourallah\u2019s youth juxtaposed with being a parent himself. \u201cWhen I was about 12, my brother and I were happily bouncing a tennis ball off a brick wall on the side of our house in El Paso,\u201d he recalls. \u201cOur father came out and barked, \u2018Stop doing that! The wall is going to fall down!!\u2019 These kinds of things happened a lot. Now that I’m a parent it strikes me as sad when I see kids blissfully playing and having fun – totally engaged with the moment – and some adult bursts in with a joy killing warning. Sometimes I catch myself. I’m that adult, even though I don’t want to be. Although \u2018Joykillers\u2019 was a favorite of a couple friends I played it for, I didn’t think it quite fit in with the rest of\u00a0Somewhere South of Sane<\/em>. It has thusly been relegated to bonus track land.\u201d<\/p>\n Already released bundles one,\u00a0North\u00a0<\/em>(which came out June 1, 2018) and\u00a0West\u00a0<\/em>(which came out June 29, 2018), precede bundle three,\u00a0East\u00a0<\/em>(which will be released July 27, 2018), and\u00a0South<\/em>. The four EPs give fans a sneak peek into what is in store for them on\u00a0Somewhere South of Sane<\/em>. The 21 tracks that comprise the four-sided album are what he calls, \u201cthe work of a functional crazy person.\u201d Nourallah is equal parts songwriter and producer, creating a shifting sonic landscape that could easily be mistaken for the work of multiple artists. This is the sound of someone trying to save his own mind. Nourallah did \u2014 in the end \u2014 and created nothing short of a musical odyssey.<\/p>\n As a solo artist, Nourallah has long mined the terrain between catchy and devastating. After gaining initial acclaim with the Denton, TX-based Nourallah Brothers, he went on to release six solo albums. His debut,\u00a0Polaroid<\/em>\u00a0(2004), had\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0calling him \u201ca singer-songwriter who can stop time.\u201d 2015\u2019s\u00a0Skeleton Closet<\/em>\u00a0was cited by\u00a0Dusted\u00a0<\/em>as a \u201cmasterful balance of the said and the unsaid… like a good novel, full of implications and shadowy contradictions and complexities.\u201d As a producer, Nourallah boasts quite an impressive C.V. of production credits (Old 97\u2019s, the Damnwells, Rhett Miller, the Deathray Davies). He\u2019s also been involved in numerous other projects, including co-founding and running A & R for the Palo Santo music group. Over the years, his work on both sides of the sound booth has won him an armful of Dallas Observer music awards. That, and the consistent quality of Salim Nourallah\u2019s music, have proven that some musicians actually can continue to stay relevant.<\/p>\n http:\/\/salimnourallah.com\u00a0<\/a> For Immediate Release July 9, 2018 \u00a0 Salim Nourallah\u2019s fourth pre-album EP,\u00a0South,\u00a0scheduled for release on September 7th Final pre-album bundle to be released in advance of album Respected Dallas, TX-based singer\/songwriter\/producer\/musician-of-many-trades Salim Nourallah is set to release a sprawling double-album,\u00a0Somewhere South of Sane, on September 28, 2018 on Palo Santo Records.\u00a0 In advance of the … <\/p>\n
\nRespected Dallas, TX-based singer\/songwriter\/producer\/musician-of-many-trades Salim Nourallah is set to release a sprawling double-album,\u00a0Somewhere South of Sane<\/em>, on September 28, 2018 on Palo Santo Records.\u00a0 In advance of the album release, Nourallah is releasing four pre-album \u201cbundles\u201d that will include tracks from the album as well as previously recorded but unreleased material or acoustic re-imaginings of tracks from past Nourallah albums.\u00a0 Each bundle, (EP) will be accompanied by new online video content.<\/p>\n
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