Jesse Terry’s new album ‘Arcadia‘ – his seventh original album release – is out on October 4th, and features a shift in the kind of straight ahead roots-rock that we’ve come to expect from him into a more layered electric rock feel. Not that that means a single sound – as he explains himself he picks up on many different sides: “There are so many different parts to all of us – for me, I have the husband part, the father part, the song writing part, the touring part… and I like embracing all those different sides with my music, too. I listen to just as much Tom Petty as I listen to James Taylor. As much acoustic Neil Young as electric Neil Young. There’s a rock & roll side of me that’s been waiting in the wings for some time now, and this is the first album to capture that side and present me as a whole artist.”
‘Headlines‘, which we’re premiering today at Americana UK, is full of that rock side – electric guitars duelling with keyboards. It’s a song that looks at the role of the media in stirring up dissension, with Terry singing “headlines polarising make you choose a side / Headlines worded carefully guaranteed to divide.” It’s a deliberate evil, as he notes “the Devil’s in the headlines” rather, of course, than in a carefully argued assessment where the devil will be in the details. It’s a plea for some common ground, and a coming together.
Jesse Terry told Americana UK that the feeling he has is that “These days I feel overwhelmed & assaulted by non-stop messages – too many of them sow fear, division & self-doubt, in order to keep maximum eyeballs on a screen. It feels like common ground is being abandoned in order to keep the money machine churning, and that it’s a real show of strength & courage to turn those messages off & get back to the core of our shared humanity.”
Jesse Terry starts a UK tour on the 3rd, dates are:
OCT 3 THU: Black Swan Folk Club @ 7:30pm York, United Kingdom
OCT 4 FRI: The Met @ 8:00pm With Annie Keating, Bury, United Kingdom
OCT 5 SAT: Village Club @ 8:00pm Thornton Hough, United Kingdom
OCT 10 THU: The Cluny 2 @ 7:30pm with Attention Seekers Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
OCT 11 FRI: The Georgian Hotel @ 7:30pm Coatbridge, United Kingdom
OCT 12 SAT: Hindmarsh Hall @ 7:00pm Alnmouth, United Kingdom
OCT 13 SUN: The Old School House @ 7:00pm Robin Hood’s Bay, United Kingdom
OCT 16 WED: Aces & Eights @ 8:00pm London, United Kingdom
OCT 17 THU: United Reformed Church @ 7:45pm Oxted, United Kingdom
OCT 18 FRI: The Brunswick @ 7:30pm with Si Connelly, Hove, United Kingdom
OCT 19 SAT: The Drawingroom @ 8:00pm Chesham, United Kingdom
