A poignant study of loss from James McVey with his latest single ‘Hold On to the Times’. The video pictures McVey traveling in the back seat of a car, writing lyrics in a notebook. A simple arrangement featuring fiddle sits beneath his almost whispered vocal. This is latest song from his ‘Letters Home’ E.P. ‘Hold On to the Times’ and the other tracks were written while McVey was on tour recently with Henry Moodie.
James says, “I wrote and recorded this EP over a few weeks on tour a couple months ago. I had no plan to make this EP and no idea these songs would come to me on the road. These songs mean so much to me and I’m over the moon that you’re connecting with them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for breathing life into these songs.
After the solo outing of ‘Letters Home’, McVey returns to the road fronting his band The Vamps this September.
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
