Blue House, by Nathan Xander

Blue House

by Nathan Xander

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1.	Mount Washington 02:31	buy track
2.	(What It Takes To) Make a Man 03:47	buy track
3.	Over You, Over Me 03:44	buy track
4.	You're Never Wrong 02:55	buy track
5.	Peter and Sam 02:53	buy track
6.	I Remember You Now 03:42	buy track
7.	Enoch's Blues 03:29	buy track
8.	Unknown Road 03:45	buy track
9.	Old Boots 05:19	buy track
10.	Shadows 02:23	buy track
11.	Pennsylvania 02:44	buy track
12.	Day to Day 04:00	buy track

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New York City based songwriter, Nathan Xander is a troubadour in the Texas sense, when he’s in Texas. Or in the California sense when he’s there. Or the Chicago sense, oh, OK. You get it. The man writes like he travels: well and often. He’s as familiar with Brooklyn as his hometown of Union City, PA, Gillian Welch as with X. Nathan’s new collection of songs, recorded in a big blue barn in Upstate New York, is his best work to date, and we at Trailer Fire Records are thrilled to share it with you.

Blue House represents the work of a writer in the prime of his craft. Nathan’s years of touring, with their joyful wildness and melancholy, come through in these songs. “Over You, Over Me” evokes that duality, while songs like “Shadows” growl and pulse with the frivolous energy of an artist who likes to break things. “Pennsylvania” is as anthemic a song as ought to be written, a wholehearted Mellencamp-esque thumper about home, while “I Remember You Now” is a psychedelic memory in homage to friends Xander has met along his traveler’s way. Each of the songs here are evidence of experience, which Nathan has in spades.

The Deli says Nathan “conjure[s] memories of smoke and sawdust.” Reglar Wiglar claims his writing “definitely gets to the heart of matters of the heart.” These recordings, as much as the band Nathan assembled, serve to underscore what his work represents: a life in pursuit of a good damn song. Blue House will not disappoint.

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released July 17, 2017

All Songs by Nathan Xander
Engineered & mixed by Drew Nix
Recorded at Bird Creek Studios, Garrison, NY & Newburgh, NY
Unknown Road recorded by Sam Wadsworth at Japam Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Carl Saff
Album design by James Cartwright
Cover illustration by Leigh Cox

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Nathan Xander New York, New York

Nathan Xander writes songs that are steeped in the quiet, restrained tension of what Greil Marcus called the 'Old, Weird America'.

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Sep 27

11th Street Bar

New York (NYC), NY
Oct 08

Circa

High Bridge, NJ
Oct 14

Fox and Crow

Jersey City, NJ
Oct 15

Knitting Factory - Baker Falls

New York (NYC), NY

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