HIGHLY-ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM OUT NOW
ALL DRESSED UP
PRODUCED BY DAN AUERBACH
WATCH NEW PERFORMANCE FOR
‘DIGGIN’ IN THE COAL’
LIVE AT EASY EYE SOUND
US National Television Debut On ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’
With Album Track ‘Lonely‘
Following the recent release of her highly-lauded album All Dressed Up, Kentucky-born singer-songwriter Leah Blevins is set to make her UK debut this month with a number of festival appearances as well as supporting The Black Crowes.
UK DATES
JUN 25 • Albert Hall • Manchester, UK supporting The Black Crowes
JUN 26 • Rough Trade Denmark Street (In-Store) • London
JUN 27 • Hyde Park • London
JUN 28 • State Fayre Festival • Chelmsford
All Dressed Up blends soulful Americana with country and subtle pop sensibilities, offering both vulnerability and strength from an artist whose music is rooted in truth, resilience and unwavering faith. Produced by GRAMMY winning Dan Auerbach, All Dressed Up is Blevins’ second album and her first to be released on Easy Eye Sound, and has been hugely well received by both fans and media alike. Read the recent LA Times interview here.
Blevins recently made her national US television debut on The Kelly Clarkson Show, where she delivered a stunning performance of album standout ‘Lonely’, a Wurlitzer-soaked, Patsy Cline-esque ballad that captures the emotional depth and timeless sensibility woven throughout the record. Watch it here.
Raised in Sandy Hook, Kentucky, Blevins’ journey to this moment has been shaped by hardship, hope and an unshakable spiritual foundation. The daughter of a dentist who became a career politician, and a teenage gospel quartet pianist who fell into deep addiction, she knows the reality of oatmeal baths in red water, no heat in the winter and finding out the teacher giving your family refuge was also your mother’s supplier before she got sober over 20 years ago.
Living with her siblings, she started singing background vocals in their band; Patty Loveless, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert and The Judds informed their sound. By the time Blevins was studying Communications at Morehead State, Blevins joined Elliot Collett & the Articles who swept her away to Nashville. Though the band didn’t last long, the ethics she learned from touring with them gave her a compass and she made a choice to pursue a career as a solo artist.
“The way you speak to yourself is more powerful than any outside voice,” shares Blevins. “I think I’m innocent to the world, but I harbor all these experiences I’ve had. I spent so much of my life in a small town, trying to prove I’m something I’m not… I had an amazing English teacher who allowed us all to be bigger than Sandy Hook, studying Sylvia Plath and C.S. Lewis, just creating a world so far beyond what we knew.”
That perspective fuels All Dressed Up, a collection of songs that confront life’s hardest truths without judgment while exploring faith, love, addiction, self-worth and healing with compassion and clarity.
From the steel-laced spiritual seeking of ‘Hey God’, to the cautionary shimmer of ‘Be Careful Throwing Stones’, to the smoky ache of the title track, Blevins moves effortlessly through emotional terrain, pairing unfiltered storytelling with melodies that linger long after the final note.
Her fearless honesty attracted some of Nashville’s most revered songwriters — including Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges), Pat McLaughlin (John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Alan Jackson), Paul Overstreet (two-time GRAMMY, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music Song of the Year winner) — while legendary musicians such as iconic steel players Paul Franklin and Russ Pahl, who also contributes baritone, pianist Jim Moose Brown, organist Billy Swan, upright bassist Steve Mackie and GRAMMY-winning guitarist David Rawlings helped bring the songs to life with a spacious, emotionally rich sound.
The album also reflects Blevins’ mission to connect through music rather than chase recognition. “I didn’t need to be sought after or famous, but I knew I wanted to connect with people and to use music to bring us together,” says Blevins.
Introduced to Auerbach by friend Marcus King, Blevins found an immediate creative kinship that encouraged her to strip away polish in favor of honesty. Blevins continues, “Instead of being so put together, these songs say, ‘I’m human. I can be insecure.’ That’s real freedom.”
With All Dressed Up Leah Blevins continues to carve out a space defined not by perfection, but by authenticity by offering songs that meet listeners wherever they are, and remind them they’re not alone.
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