Hear the tune and see the video from acclaimed Austin duo’s
“All We Are” album now via Huffington Post, Exclaim!
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(L-R): Vaughn Walters, Boxie, Jenny Parrott. Photo Credit: Laura Partain.
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The Austin, Texas
based country-folk songwriting duo known as Loves It has announced and launched three months of summer tour
dates in support of its current album All We Are, out now via Team Austin Records.
The band that has
become known for its seemingly never-ending love of the road (playing 200-plus
shows a year!) has also completed and premiered the video for “Dancin’” the latest single from All
We Are. Fans can see the video
via the website for Canada’s largest music paper, Exclaim!, and an MP3 of the
track is available now via Huffington
Post. A complete itinerary of tour
dates can be found below.
“‘Dancin’ is
about the journey of a young emotionally vulnerable woman who goes out to find
love and fulfill her potential,” explains the band’s Jenny Parrott of what bandmate Vaughn Walters describes
as a “Steve Earle Guitartown-era-feeling tune.”
“More specifically,” says Parrott,
it’s an autobiographical song about my first love, my music, my dreams and the
loss, and ultimate resolution that followed.”
She
continues, “My first love was a wonderful musician who invited me to move away
to Nebraska and front my first band when I was 19-years-old. The problem was
that everyone seemed to notice that he was an alcoholic but me. My Dad didn’t
want me to go, he saw this behavior in him from the beginning, but I was so
caught up with being in love.”
Parrott concludes, “I was blind at the time, but in
the end there was resolution, and the song ends on a compromise between father
and daughter where he shows his love by buying her dancing shoes. I had dreamed
that my Dad took me shopping, and it meant that everything was okay and he
could rest assured that I wouldn’t make any more horrible romantic decisions.”
The video for the
tune, directed by Jillian Hall, an Audience Choice Award winner at SXSW
for producing the film “Yakona,” is more lighthearted. The clip
sees Parrott and Walters racing to a gig, depicting them being
transformed along the way by their experiences with the different dancers they
encounter.
Director Hall
explains, “We called on our friends, friends of friends, and even visited dance
classes to recruit dancers. We found quite a variety of talent including
a yogi master, Cajun two-steppers, a contortionist, a ballerina, belly dancers,
and even my grandpa. I mostly work on documentary films, but I’ve been wanting
to collaborate with Jenny and Vaughn for a long time. I think
their music lends itself well to fun ideas.”
“I think it’s a
little bit ‘Alice In Wonderland’ meets bizarre but pleasant dream,” says
Parrott. “There are a lot of neat details. The two-steppers have
performed at the Democratic National Convention and The Smithsonian, the extras
were lured to Givens Park location by our flyers promising vegan snacks. The
rest was shot in East Austin at Ortega Elementary School.”
Jenny
Parrott and Vaughn Walters of Loves
It are available for interviews.
Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Loves It
All
We Are
(Team Austin – Out Now)
Track Listing:
01. Katydid
04. Rocketship
05. Flag
06. Peace
07. Anne-yr-sm
08. (Would You Like To Be) My First Divorce
10. Western Swing Murder
11. Scab
12. Choose
13. Appalachian Ballad
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Loves It Live
06/13 Mt. Vernon, TX
@ Audrey's House
lovesitmusic@gmail.com
for info
06/14 Austin, TX @ The Continental Club
06/16 Austin, TX @ The White Horse
06/20 Lake Way, TX @ Amlo Farms
06/21 San Marcos, TX @ San Marcos Farmer's Market
06/26 Cedar City, UT @ Groovefest @ Grind Coffeehouse
730PM
06/27 Cedar City, UT @ Groovefest @ Main Stage
130PM
06/28 Pindeale, WY @ Rock Rabbit @ Soundcheck Fest
Official After Party
06/29 Centennial, WY @ Beartree Tavern
06/30 Laramie, WY @ Coal Creek Coffee
07/03 Fort Collins, CO @ Wild Boar Coffee
07/12 Mount Solon, VA @ Local Roots Stage @ Red Wing Roots Festival
12PM
07/17 Gatlinburg, TN @ Sugarlands Distilling Company
07/18 Knoxville, TN @ Blue Plate Special @ WDVX
12PM
07/18 Bristol, TN @ Border Bash
07/19 Bowling Green, OH @ House Show
lovesitmusic@gmail.com
for info
07/26 Davis, WY @ Beer Garden Stage @ Brew Skies Festival
945PM
07/27 Wheeling, WV @ Vagabond Chef Kitchen @ McClure Hotel
07/28 Cleveland, OH @ Barking Spider
07/29 Detroit, MI @ PJ's Lager House
07/31 Minneapolis, MN @ Lee's Liquor Lounge
08/02 Madison, WI @ Sugar Maple Festival
08/03 Milwaukee, WI @ Frank's Power Plant
08/04 Marion, IN @ Beatniks Cafe
08/06 Columbus, OH @ Woodlands Tavern
08/08 Pittsburgh, PA @ Howler's Coyote Cafe
08/09 Bedford, PA @ Wills Mountain Festival
08/15 Washington, DC @ House Show
lovesitmusic@gmail.com
for info
08/16 Accident, MD @ MoonShadow Cafe
08/27 Brooklyn, NY @ 68 Jay St. Bar
09/04 Providence, RI @ Leviathan Exchange
09/06 Bowdoinham, ME @ House Show
lovesitmusic@gmail.com
for info
09/07 Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim
09/11 Worcester, MA @ Nick's Bar & Restaurant
09/12 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
09/13 Portsmouth, NH @ The Press Room
09/14 Philadelphia, PA @ Fiume
09/15 Baltimore, MD @ Dangerously Delicious Pies
09/19 Bristol, TN @ Rhythm and Roots Reunion
09/20 Bristol, TN @ Rhythm and Roots Reunion
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Loves It Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
