ISRAEL NASH
TEXAS-VIA-MISSOURI SINGER-SONGWRITER
ISSUES A MESSAGE OF RESILIENCE AND DETERMINATION
ON SOARING NEW SINGLE:
“CAN’T STOP”
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE
+ NEW ALBUM:
‘OZARKER’
RECORDED WITH KEVIN RATTERMAN
(MY MORNING JACKET, RAY LAMONTAGNE)
OUT 20 OCTOBER VIA LOOSE MUSIC
PRE-ORDER/SAVE HERE
Celebrated Texas-via-Missouri singer-songwriter Israel Nash and Loose Music are excited to present “Can’t Stop,” the third single lifted from the 20 October release of Nash’s new album titled ‘Ozarker’.
A sing-along, anthemic rocker that shakes with a message of resilience, determination, and a refusal to back down in the face of challenge, “Can’t Stop” is a driving song meant for open highways and free spirits who celebrate the unbreakable vigor that lies within. “Can’t Stop” also follows “Roman Candle” and the album’s fiery title track, a song that is the subject of Nash‘s Beyond The Song series, a rich, documentary-style collection dedicated to the stories and characters that inspire and shape the forthcoming album.
Recorded with producer Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Ray LaMontagne), Nash’s rousing new collection is an ode to his roots. But more than that, it’s a meditation on love and family, on the beauty and the pain we pass down through generations, on the ties that bind us through good times and bad. The music here harkens back to the heartland rock that Nash grew up on — Petty, Springsteen, Seger — with larger-than-life guitars and anthemic melodies, and whose lyrics are similarly cinematic, painting captivating portraits of everyday men and women doing their best to get by with dignity and self-respect. “I think the reason so much of that classic heartland rock and roll endures is because it touches on themes we all feel so deeply: desire, struggle, commitment, escape,” says Nash. “As an artist, I’m always aspiring to touch as many people as possible, and that’s what this music has always represented for me.”
Israel Nash may live in the Texas Hill Country, but he’ll always be an Ozarker at heart. The son of a Baptist preacher and an artist, Nash retreated to Dripping Springs, Texas, where he built his own studio on a ranch and began embracing a more spacious, psychedelic sound that has landed somewhere between Neil Young and Pink Floyd. “I was born and raised in small-town Missouri,” Nash reflects. “All the people and the stories and the music that shaped me come from that part of the country, and I could feel it calling back to me on this album.”
Inspired to learn more about his ancestry, Nash reached out to his mother, who began filling pages with her recollections of generations of Ozarkers. Some of the characters featured on this new album come directly from Nash’s own family history, others from second-hand accounts, but all share a distinctly Midwestern resilience, their hopes and dreams and triumphs and failures rendered with great tenderness and empathy. It would be easy for Nash to mythologize the place he comes from, to render judgment on the landscape and its people with the benefit of distance and hindsight, but ‘Ozarker‘ instead presents honest, intimate snapshots of its subjects, resisting the urge to romanticise the past and never losing sight of the humanity at the heart of it all.
The result is a lush wall of sound that feels both vintage and modern all at once as it swirls 50 years of American roots rock into a fierce sonic maelstrom. Opener “Can’t Stop” sets the stage, with percolating synthesisers bubbling up beneath reverb-drenched guitars that build into an explosive crescendo. Like much of the album, it’s a song about motion and growth and liberation, but there’s also doubt lurking beneath the surface. The fiery “Roman Candle” chases confidence and inner-strength, while the melancholy “Pieces” searches for a sense of normalcy in the wake of loss, and the dreamy “Firedance” refuses to surrender to the weight of the world.
Elsewhere, the rapturous title track tells the story of Nash’s great-grandfather, a migrant worker who fell in love with an orchard owner’s daughter and kept his promise to return in a year to marry her; the searing “Lost In America” — inspired by a family friend — follows a shell-shocked Vietnam vet who can’t find peace in his own skin; and the ominous “Shadowland” explores the vicious cycles of drug abuse and poverty that continue to haunt struggling families in rural Missouri. “No matter where you come from or where you go, you’ll always carry your past with you,” Nash reflects. “The people, the places, the stories, that’s what makes you you.” It’s what makes Israel Nash an Ozarker.
ISRAEL NASH – NEW SINGLE: “CAN’T STOP”
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE
NEW ALBUM: ‘OZARKER’
OUT 20 OCTOBER VIA LOOSE MUSIC
PRE-ORDER/SAVE HERE
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