We’re happy to announce that we’ll be headlining our record label’s showcase on the Saloon Stage at this year’s Truck Festival outside Oxford, England on Saturday July 19th. Hope to see some of you out there!
“Listening to the new Hans Chew album, Life & Love, we are reminded of why we love rock’n’roll music. It has swagger, it has soul and, most importantly, an energy that remains undiminished throughout…”
http://someofitistrue.com/2014/04/25/the-music-doesnt-stop-29-hans-chew/
“Compelling, dynamite piano-fronted classic rock…these songs are beautifully recorded and masterfully produced…poetic and creative, this album is filled with surprises during each fresh new listen…rich in color and mood, many other artists will be happy to find it influential in their own songwriting process…"
Listen to the track "Mercy” included in their April playlist.
New York by way of Tennessee rocker Hans Chew follows up his critically acclaimed debut Tennessee & Other Stories, with the Dixie-fried rock ‘n’ roll awesomeness of Life & Love releasing April 1st via At the Helm.
Uncut Magazine calls Life & Love “invigorating in the extreme”, which is indeed why we do it.
From the new album Life & Love
Hans Chew has been compared to artists as varied as Bob Dylan, Meade Lux Lewis, John Prine, Albert Ammons, Nicky Hopkins and The Band, to name a few.
“My grandfather sang harmony in a Nashville gospel quartet and taught me that ‘high-lonesome sound’,” Chew explains. “While my mother turned me on to Hendrix and the Stones, my father only listened to classical music: I knew Beethoven’s Fifth before Led Zeppelin’s fourth.”
In 2004, after many years adrift, Chew took up permanent residence at the decrepit Clermont Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, armed with little more than a piano, an old Royal typewriter, a handful of New Orleans LPs, and a stack of ragtime, blues and boogie-woogie sheet music.
He checked out two years later with a handful of songs and moved to New York. These songs would become Chew’s 2010 debut album Tennessee & Other Stories…, which received four stars from Rolling Stone magazine.
Now Chew returns with new album Life & Love, which will be released by At The Helm Records on March 31. Check out the video for Junker’s Blues, one of the tracks from the new album, below.
Get a taste of our new album Life & Love on the current issue of Uncut magazine’s cover mount CD. At newsstands now. Album out April 1st.
Available locally at record stores, as well as from these folks:
Riding out across the eastern US with D. Charles Speer & The Helix in support of our new album Doubled Exposure. Tour dates as follows:
March 6, 2014
Trans Pecos
Ridgewood, NY
w/ Raaj Mahal, Pigeons
March 7, 2014
Ortlieb’s
Philadelphia, PA
w/ Ron Tubman
March 8, 2014
Holy Frijoles
Baltimore, MD
w/ Television Hill, Little Rib
March 9, 2014
House Party
Charlottesville, VA
March 10, 2014
Haus der Luge
Blacksburg, VA
w/ Nathan Bowles
March 11, 2014
Nightlight
Chapel Hill, NC
March 12, 2014
Static Age Records
Asheville, NC
March 13, 2014
WonderRoot
Atlanta, GA
w/ Lux Noise, Jason Howell
March 14, 2014
The Stone Fox
w/ Cherry Blossoms
March 15, 2014
Green Lantern
Lexington, KY
w/ Salad Influence
March 16, 2014
Empty Bottle
Chicago, IL
March 18, 2014
PJ’s Lager House
Detroit, MI
March 19, 2014
The Shop
Pittsburgh, PA
w/ Sagas
Good to luck to my main man Danny Davis later today in Sochi, where he’s representing the USA in the Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe!!! Yeah Danny!
Danny used our song “Forever Again” from the album Tennessee & Other Stories… for this video for Burton Snowboards a couple years ago (see the link). GO GO…GO DANNY GO!!!
“Sh*tkicking…James Booker…NYC rocker gang”? Yes, please.
We’re giving the vinyl test-pressings of “Life & Love” the green light tomorrow! You can pre-order now: http://atthehelmrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/hans-chew
Thankee!
Next Wednesday Jan 15th at @unionpool w/the mighty @endlessboogieny & (Stephen Tanner’s) Syphilitic Lust!!!
Photo: Benjamin Lowy for The New York Times
Glad to see Life & Love getting some early press: http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/the-best-albums-of-2014-thus-far @uncutmagazine @johnrmulvey
ALL ABOARD! The happy holiday train!
Check out the video of her painting it here: http://youtu.be/QoelJhhIKcM
