Ray LaMontagne new album out today

Ray LaMontagne today releases his much-anticipated third album, Gossip In The Grain, through 14th Floor Records. Recorded with returning producer, Ethan Johns in Box, England, and touching upon a range of styles and musical settings– spanning pastoral folk, railroad blues, front porch country, and plangent balladry – Gossip In The Grain proves to be his most creative and emotionally expansive collection to date.

Whereas LaMontagne's two previous albums, Trouble and Till The Sun Turns Black, were largely solo affairs, with Johns serving as multi-tasking instrumentalist, Gossip In The Grain sees him joined by members of his touring band, bassist Jennifer Condos and guitarist Eric Heywood (with Johns largely handling drum duties). Along with his band members, LaMontagne is also joined on two tracks – "A Falling Through" and "I Still Care For You" – by singer/songwriter Leona Naess.

As LaMontagne explains "It was time to open up a little bit more, not be quite so reserved in my choice of songs that I wanted to record." Recently called by Vanity Fair "a fresh reminder that the genuine artist is not yet an extinct species," Gossip In The Grain reconfirms Ray LaMontagne as an artist and a craftsman, a songwriter who is able to work his melodic gifts and distinctive lyricism through a myriad of musical traditions.

Tracklisting:

01 You Are The Best Thing
02 Let It Be Me
03 Sarah
04 I Still Care For You
05 Winter Birds
06 Meg White
07 Hey Me, Hey Mama
08 Henry Nearly Killed Me (It's A Shame)
09 A Falling Through
10 Gossip In The Grain