Texas-based rocker Israel Nash’s highly anticipated new album ‘Ozarker’ is out today on Loose.
The album, recorded with producer Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Ray LaMontagne), is an ode to Nash’s roots, but more than that, it’s a meditation on love and family, on the beauty and the pain we pass down through generations.
“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.”
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 the lyrics are similarly cinematic, painting captivating portraits of everyday men and women doing their best to get by with dignity and self-respect. Some of the characters 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 mythologise 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.
“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.”
In tandem with the release, Nash has announced an extensive ‘Ozarker’ tour of the UK and Europe at the start of 2024. The UK shows are as follows:
ISRAEL NASH 2024 UK/EU TOUR DATES
2024-01-28 Oslo, London, UK
2024-01-29 Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
2024-01-30 Celtic Connections, Glasgow, UK
Tickets for all shows are on sale now here.
ISRAEL NASH – ‘OZARKER’ IS OUT NOW
ON LIMITED EDITION PURPLE VINYL LP, BLACK VINYL LP, CD AND DIGITALLY.
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