PHILADELPHIA-BRED SINGER-SONGWRITER DAVE HAUSE RELEASES ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM, BLOOD HARMONY
NEW SINGLE, ‘CARRY THE LANTERN’ FEATURED IN THE 200th EPISODE OF CHICAGO FIRE THIS WEEK
BLOOD HARMONY, PRODUCED BY WILL HOGE, AVAILABLE NOW VIA BLOOD HARMONY RECORDS / SOUNDLY MUSIC
UK / EUROPEAN TOUR DATES IN JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2022
(Blood Harmony album cover art
DOWNLOAD / STREAM BLOOD HARMONY
“Euphoric … Hause has become expert at melding introspective, often edgy, Americana lyricism with the most irresistible of pop-rock hooks.” – Rolling Stone
“Hause still has the spirit of punk rock inside his roots music, and ‘Blood Harmony’ may be his best work yet.” — SPIN
“Beautifully crafted songs that are sung, played and produced as well as anything you’re going to hear in the world of Americana and roots-rock this year.” — AmericanaUK
LONDON, UK. / NASHVILLE, TN. – (Fri, 22nd Oct, 2021) – Philadelphia-raised singer-songwriter Dave Hause has today (22/10) released his acclaimed fifth album Blood Harmony, out to stream/download worldwide now. Produced by celebrated Americana singer-songwriter Will Hoge, Blood Harmony features a first class assemblage of musicians consisting of members of The E Street Band, and musicians known for their work with The Highwomen, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church and many more. The album features ten brand new songs including latest single ‘Carry The Lantern’, which was featured on the 200th episode of NBC / Sky Witness hit show Chicago Fire earlier this week.
Beneath the surface of Blood Harmony are multiple layers of meaning related to Hause’s role as a musician, a brother, a husband, a son and—having become a father to twins a few months before the release of 2019’s Kick—a dad. Created with his younger brother and longstanding writing partner, Tim Hause, and being released on their very own label, Blood Harmony also presents itself as a meaningful reassertion of what family means to them all.
On a base level, the term “blood harmony” is simple—it describes the specific sound two siblings make when they sing together. Given that Dave Hause has been writing and recording songs with his younger brother, Tim Hause, for a while now, it made sense to use that phrase as the title for his fifth solo record. But this being a Dave Hause album also means there’s much more to it than that.
“I thought ‘Blood Harmony‘ was a great title, and it’s really specific to how Tim and I have decided to work over the years,” says Hause. “It also pertains to my children because they’ll have their own Blood Harmony. So the germ of the album, the beating heart, is that I’m in a true family. I have a grounded reason to work and a bunch of people that I want to make proud with the work that we do. It’s a family business.”
You can hear Hause’s passion and dedication to his craft—as well as his determined approach to it—flowing through the veins of Blood Harmony’s ten stunning, sumptuous songs. Written with his brother over a series of weekly Zoom sessions, they began crafting songs together in January 2021. They’d been writing remotely together since 2017’s Bury Me In Philly so it wasn’t an entirely new process for them.
They traveled with 10 songs to Nashville where acclaimed songwriter Will Hoge took up the helm of producer. Through Hoge’s connections, what Hause calls “a staggering bunch of musicians” was assembled to flesh out the songs he and Tim had written. He’s not wrong–there was Brandi Carlile’s drummer Chris Powell, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street band bassist Garry Tallent, acclaimed session guitarist Tom Bukovac, Jason Isbell’s guitarist Sadler Vaden, and keyboardists Billy Justineau, who’s mainly worked with country superstars Eric Church and Brothers Osborne, Mike Webb, whose credits range from Chris Stapleton to John Prine, and Jen Gunderman, Sheryl Crow’s keyboard player.
It’s impossible to not hear and feel just how much Hause and his whole family—that beating heart at the centre of these songs—mean to him. It’s a truly beautiful thing.
Dave Hause has announced a 20-date UK/European tour next year – tickets on sale now:
28.01.2022 – Antwerp – Kavka
29.01.2022 – Hamburg – Knust
30.01.2022 – Frankfurt – Batchkapp
01.02.2022 – Munster – Skaters Palace
02.02.2022 – Berlin – SO36
03.02.2022 – Leipzig – Conne Island
04.02.2022 – Wien – Arena
05.02.2022 – München – Technikum
06.02.2022 – Milan – Legend Club
08.02.2022 – Zürich – Exil
09.02.2022 – Stuttgart – Im Wizemann
10.02.2022 – Köln – Die Kantine
11.02.2022 – Nijmegen – Doornroosje
12.02.2022 – Amsterdam – Melkweg
15.02.2022 – Nottingham – Rescue rooms
16.02.2022 – Glasgow – Òran Mór
17.02.2022 – Manchester – Gorilla
18.02.2022 – Birmingham – O2 Academy 2
19.02.2022 – London – Islington Assembly Hall
20.02.2022 – Bristol – Thekla