Northern Irish singer/songwriter Foy Vance just wrapped US and UK/IE tours in support of his two new companion albums, From Muscle Shoals and To Memphis, released this summer via Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records/Elektra. While digging through demo tracks, he came across a handful of songs he had labeled ‘Soul’ that provided the genesis for From Muscle Shoals, and ‘Americana’ that formed the basis of To Memphis.
Foy recently shared stunning performance clips of songs including “You Love Are My Only” and “Pain Never Hurt Me Like Love” from FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL, and “I Won’t Let You Fall” and “Malibu Jane” from Memphis TN’s Sun Studios.
Vance will release a new studio album in 2020, a more traditional follow-up to The Wild Swan, which contained the BBC Radio 2 playlisted singles “Coco”, “Upbeat Feelgood”, and “Noam Chomsky Is A Soft Revolution”, and saw Vance perform on TODAY and The Late Late Show with James Corden. Vance’s previous album, Joy Of Nothing, won the inaugural Northern Ireland Music Prize for best album in 2013.