Real Warmth

Real WarmthJoan Shelley follows her critically acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13 tracks feature many guests from the city's fertile music scene (Tamara Lindenman, Doug Paisley). Shelley has toured the world with Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Wilco and others. She has played Lincoln Center, Newport Folk Festival, appeared on the covers of both Acoustic

The annals of music history are overflowing with gifted guitar players whose egos prevented them from reaching their full potential: rather than being content to be exceptional members of a band

his first strictly solo guitar record - no singing

The great sage Ben Ratliff

drummer Ryan Sawyer and alto saxophonist Devin Waldan for a rich

Originally released in 2012 and long-elusive to fans

I Look After You

” playing each tune for more than enough time to fill two sides of an album

"We Are Together Again" was recorded at End of an Ear studios in Louisville

Television-esque multi-guitar jams played with motorik precision and a fiercely American intensity: you know

Raising goats

this is the sound of Joan Shelley emerging as one of music's most expressive emotional syndicates

no guests - all display a notable increase in confidence and ease