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Everything in Lucie Tiger’s life is in her songs, and everything in her songs is in her life.
The songs on Alabama Highway reflect the stories created on a journey that came at a pivotal point in her life. A journey that has changed the course of her future.
Whilst finding her voice as an emerging country-rock singer-songwriter from Sydney, Lucie discovered that so many of the songs that inspired her over the years were recorded in the same small town - Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It was inevitable that she would finally travel to the Shoals for the first time in 2019 where she recorded in the same studio, FAME, where many had done so before her including the Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin and more recently Jason Isbell and Allison Krauss. Whilst there, Lucie forged friendships and collaborations that are now central in her life.
The fit between Lucie’s songs and the ‘magic in the water’ at the Shoals, a music town on the banks of the Tennessee River, is reflected in the title track Alabama Highway, a heartfelt wish to take her home to the place where she’s found her tribe.
The Shoals is also the inspiration behind the second track on the album, Found My Home, which reached #20 on the Australian Radio CountryTown Hot 50 chart and #50 on the Music Row Country Breakout chart.
Lucie’s love of being on the road sees her draw inspiration from the people she meets and the joy of travelling along the old back roads through the South. Bitter With The Sweet was inspired by a man whose own challenges and travels with his dog gave Lucie reassurance that bitter moments can have a silver lining.
In The Devil You Know Lucie has reimagined the legend of the Devil at the Crossroads in a story that casts her in the title role as ‘the devil you know’ at the old crossroads, a nod to the history and traditions that swirl around Blues legend, Robert Johnson.
Midnight Goodbye, which reached #34 on the Australian Radio CountryTown Hot 50 chart and #68 on the Music Row Country Breakout chart, describes that universal feeling when you’ve just had your heart broken and you want the other person to walk out the door so you can move on and leave the heartbroken feelings for another day.
In Right Next To You, Lucie celebrates the sense of freedom from a life on the road and the anticipation of travelling with the one she’s chosen to share the adventures that lie ahead. And finally with Do Me Right Lucie captures the feeling that we’ve all had after being in lockdown: missing loved ones and keen to get out to a bar, let our hair down, and just have some fun.
Alabama Highway - Track listing
- Bitter With The Sweet
- Found My Home
- Alabama Highway
- Right Next To You
- Midnight Goodbye
- Do Me Right
- The Devil You Know
Alabama Highway was recorded across two continents during the pandemic. In Muscle Shoals, Bob Wray on bass guitar (The Highwaymen, Ray Charles), Will McFarlane on lead guitar (Bonnie Raitt) and Justin Holder on drums (Jason Isbell ShoalsFest) laid down their magic off the back of Lucie’s demo tracks. Back in Sydney, Lucie added rhythm guitar and vocals. This is the same crew as her previous EP Gasoline, which Lucie recorded in-house at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, produced by John Gifford III and mastered by Don Srygley in Muscle Shoals, both of whom were GRAMMY nominated for Gregg Allman’s final album ‘Southern Blood’. Gasoline won Country Blues Song of the Year at the Tamworth Songwriting Association Awards 2021.
A flamin' haired country-rocker who's Southern in spirit but not yet in zip code, Lucie Tiger’s music stands out amongst the country music crowd - her original songs blend truth with hope along with buried treasure in her lyrics for those searching out Lucie's inspirations. They're classic country-rock with a modern voice, coloured with a hefty dose of good old Americana charm and subtle hallmarks of the Blues.
Lucie Tiger released her debut album, Alabama Highway on April 15, 2022. The album debuted at #14 on the ARIA Country Albums chart (Australia's equivalent to the Billboard Chart) on 25 April 2022, (see link). Alabama Highway charted at #10 on the AIR 100% Independent Albums on the same day (see link).
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