Join us to celebrate the long-delayed release of Nathan’s new album. And we’ve delayed it a bit more from our originally scheduled date of September 11 until early November due to the late-summer Covid surge.
Recorded in 2019 in Capitola, California at Skunkworks Studios, delayed two years by the Pandemic, yet still relevant in every way, "Red, White and American Blues (it couldn't happen here) drops on CD and Digital from Needtoknow Music on September 11th, 2021.
In 13 original songs, featuring guest appearances by Patty Griffin, Regina McCrary, and Aubrie Sellers, the album takes the listener on a journey, from the Dead Thumb Blues of South Texas, through Swamp Music, American Roots Rock, and West Coast Spoken Jazz Poetry to the Folk stages of London.
Bell is the subject of a 2020 Documentary short film “I Don’t Do This For Love (American Songwriter Nathan Bell on tour in Scotland, Wales and England)” and was a best-of selection for Americana UK in 2016, 2017, and 2018 including Best Male Artist of 2017.
“This is the kind of artist that Nathan Bell is: The year Donald Trump was impeached as president of the United States, Nathan was writing songs that would make up Red, White and American Blues (it couldn’t happen here), the subtitle a direct reference to Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel imagining the possibility that the people of the United States of America could be mindlessly led to fascism. [2] Like Lewis’s novel, this album could be the most important piece of literature of our particular moment in time. You may call that last sentence hyperbole, but I just call it honest. Red, White and American Blues is not a protest album, although it has protest songs. It’s not a Black Lives Matter album, but in these songs, Black lives matter. It’s an American album. It’s a set of songs about a broken country and its broken people. It’s a cautionary album.”
-Mark Kemp, Author of “Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South”
Nathan will perform songs from the album along with a selection of songs from his previous catalog. Chattanooga roots music master Randy Steele will be Nathan’s special guest.
The show will be appropriate for all ages. CDs will be available at the show.
ADMISSION TO THIS SHOW REQUIRES DOCUMENTATION OF FULL VACCINATION FOR COVID-19 or NEGATIVE ANTIGEN OR MOLECULAR TEST from an ACCREDITED LAB. Audience size limited. Masks are encouraged.
