Party: THE DELINES

Party: THE DELINES

The Delines were formed when Richmond Fontaine's Willy Vlautin heard the heartbreakingly beautiful voice of Amy Boone and wrote an album, Colfax Avenue, especially for her. He called upon friends such as fellow Rfer Sean Oldham, The Decembrists' Jenny Conlee-Drizos and pedal steel legend Tucker Jackson to play on it and they in turn decided to put the show on the road. Their Bristol debut earlier this year sold out weeks before and attracted comments such as: “As ever Vlautin's songs were tightly drawn short stories of people trying to get by. There was sister looking for her younger war-damaged brother (Colfax Avenue), the 45-year old woman who can't run away from her dead-end life (State Line), the woman paying the price for having married a drunken drifter (He Told Her The City Was Killing Him), the girl desperate to escape from her mundane life for just one night (I Won't Slip Up). Sounds pretty downbeat? Well it would have been if the songs hadn't been so exceptionally well written and the musicianship quite so good.” 9/10. Keith Clark – Bristol Evening Post. As an award winning novelist (The Motel Life, The Free) Willie Vlautin is used to praise - "He writes with sympathy and compassion for the downtrodden, many of whom are defined by an aching loneliness and a fear of love's shattering consequences.” Wall Street Journal. With its background of bleak landscapes and hard luck losers Colfax Avenue is as good as anything he has done, and is sure to be considered to be one of the albums of the year

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