Music News - Tami Neilson shares new single 'Hey Bus Driver!' featuring brother Jay Neilson
06 September 2019 - 0 Comments
No one forgets the first time they saw Tami Neilson. She can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit of Patsy Cline or the sensuality of Peggy Lee, or bring the audience to its feet on a rockabilly raver. She’s an artist with real range, whose powerful voice can take on big ballads, golden-age country, heartfelt Gospel, soul-infused R&B, Western swing, even old-style rock ‘n’ roll. Tami encompasses them all and is a personality-powered cyclonic force of nature in stylishly retro attire, long lashes and a stacked-high beehive.
Previous media accolades come from both sides of the Atlantic, including Rolling Stone, which called her “a fire-breathing belter on her own terms” and the U.K.’s Guardian, which asserted that “her powerhouse voice recalls 1950's stars such as Wanda Jackson and Patsy Cline.”
Of her new album’s title, Chickaboom! (out February 14, 2020 on Outside Music), Tami explains, “I wanted to write an album of punchy little songs, popping firecrackers that, when stripped back to nothing but a guitar, percussion and two voices, would still go boom!” The new collection brings much personal and family history to the table.
Listen to and watch Hey Bus Driver! here: Spotify | Apple Music | iTunes | YouTube
Tami grew up performing across North America with the Neilson Family Band, working alongside greats such as Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, and Kitty Wells. With her parents Betty and Ron (her late father a songwriter of considerable accomplishment) and two brothers Todd (drums) and Jay (bass), she spent years on the road learning her craft. This enabled Tami to explore her increasing vocal and emotional range and build a deep well of musical influences to draw upon when she started to write her own material.
Subsequently, Tami fell in love with a New Zealander, moved to the bottom of the world and began her solo career. Over many years she built a platform for herself through open-mic nights, playing soulless casinos and the dead-air time-slots at festivals, finding a small group of fellow travellers and supportive players, and then a series of increasingly impressive albums followed.
The early records saw her in a self-created territory between mainstream country and alternative country, a couple recorded around the kitchen table back home in Canada with brother Jay, who is now an acclaimed producer and songwriter. Then awards started coming in New Zealand for albums that added breadth to her “country singer” label: Best Female Artist, Best Country Album, Best Country Song, an APRA Silver Scroll (songwriting) award and Album of the Year nominations. Her Dynamite! album of 2014 received rave reviews in Britain’s MOJO and the Guardian named it a Top 10 Best Country Music Album. Tami’s songs appeared on the Netflix series Wanted and the terrestrial TV series Nashville.
Tami Neilson’s singing and writing is too big to contain, as HMV noted: “There are singers and then there is Tami Neilson, for whom the word singer just isn’t big enough.”
Accompanied by her brother and longtime co-writer/collaborator Jay Neilson, the Big Boss Mama will bring her extensive songbook to the open New Zealand road this October. With 7 dates across country in a rare, up-close and personal show, fans can experience the songs acoustically, as they were written. Tickets are on-sale now! See list of dates and ticketing info below.
THIS IS TAMI NEILSON! WITH VERY SPECIAL GUEST JAY NEILSON
NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES
17 OCTOBER - MAYFAIR THEATRE, DUNEDIN [TICKETS]
18 OCTOBER - MEOW, WELLINGTON [TICKETS]
19 OCTOBER - THE PIANO, CHRISTCHURCH [TICKETS]
20 OCTOBER - THE TUNING FORK, AUCKLAND [TICKETS]
21 OCTOBER - NELSON ARTS FESTIVAL, NELSON THEATRE ROYAL, NELSON
[FESTIVAL TICKETS]
26 OCTOBER - THE SAWMILL, LEIGH [TICKETS]
28 OCTOBER - TAURANGA ARTS FESTIVAL, TAURANGA [FESTIVAL TICKETS]
Don’t miss Tami and Jay when they’re in a town near you!
For more information and ticketing, head to tamineilson.com
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