Musical director of OBIE Award-winning Secret City to
release Haggard, Waits-influenced “Winter Bare” on April 14th.
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Jeremy Bass
as photographed by Robyn Hasty
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“Lift Me Up”
is the first single from Winter Bare
by Jeremy Bass. Hear it via Guitar
World or at the links below!
[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/jeremy-bass-lift-me-up
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“Wrapped up
in a warmth that put a smile on my face. It’s daring and simple all at the same
time.” – Guitar World
“‘Lift Me Up’
is the first song I wrote after months of not writing,” says Brooklyn’s Jeremy Bass of his isolated existence
in the winter of 2013 when he began working on Winter Bare, the first of his two upcoming albums. The track can be heard here
via an exclusive premiere at Guitar
World. “It was on one of those dark
nights when it was all I could do to keep myself from going crazy,” he
remembers. “Winter has always been tough for me, and the winter of 2013 was
especially hard.”
He isn’t kidding.
Just prior to the creation of Winter Bare, Bass was splitting up with his wife,
selling the house they shared together, and toiling away for the third year
straight on a debut album that he had become disconnected with by the time it
was finally released late last year. Returning to single living in Brooklyn
during the intense New York winter of 2013, Bass found himself secluded in an empty house, sifting through his
memories.
“I was drinking, I had run out of money, I was nearly
unemployed, and certainly unemployable,” he confesses. “But, I had a fireplace
and my guitars.” Though Bass was in the grip of despair, he
thought that maybe he could write his way out of it and actually change the
course of his life in the process.
He has.
“By the end of the winter, I’d fallen in love again,
and had a set of songs that wove their way through loneliness, despair and
near-insanity, to love and longing, and ultimately hope,” he says.
Unlike Bass’
labored-over debut album, Winter Bare – which arrives on April 14th and will be
followed up by an album of Bossa nova-inspired tunes called New
York in Spring on June 2nd
– is pure and to the point. Musically, the album bares the influence of musical
outlaws such as Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Tom Waits, artists Bass was
listening to as he taught himself to play mandolin and banjo, his “divorce
gifts” to himself.
“I suppose it’s fitting that the songs on Winter
Bare came out after a period of intense suffering in my personal life,
followed by unexpected and incredibly joyful personal freedom, and musical
exploration,” Bass concludes.
Winter Bare
arrives on April 14th to
be followed up by New York in Spring on June
2nd. Jeremy Bass is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Jeremy Bass
– Live
03/21 Los Angeles, CA @
Room 5 7PM
03/29 New York, NY @ Dixon Place The Secret City, 1130AM
04/06 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric 6PM
03/29 New York, NY @ Dixon Place The Secret City, 1130AM
04/06 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric 6PM
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Jeremy Bass
Winter
Bare
(Self-Released)
April 14th, 2015
Track Listing:
01. Introduction (Shoreline)
03. Winter Bare
04. One More Cigarette
05. Coming Back Home
06. Red Tailed Hawk
07. Winterlude (Banjo for Annie)
08. Counting
9. (Lookin’ For) The Heart of Saturday Night
(Vinyl-Only Bonus Track)
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Jeremy Bass Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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