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"South Dakota" has already been included on Spotify's "Indigo," "Emerging Americana" and "Cosmic Country" Playlists, Rolling Stone France, Indie & Folk Radio, Songpickr, The Alternate Root, OCTA, VNYL, and Ear to the Ground!"South Dakota" is a finalist in the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest (2020). Thank You to the Current on MPR for being the first to play "South Dakota!" on an NPR station! It was also featured this week on South Dakota Public Radio! https://listen.sdpb.org/post/new-single-called-south-dakota
The first single "Go With the Flow" premiered on Glide Magazine and is now streaming everywhere! Including Playlisted on The Alternate Route, That Eric Alper, VNYL, Ear to the Ground, "New Nashville," and OneChord.net!
VNYL.org has made GO WITH THE FLOW VIbe of the month! "Go With the Flow" was recorded in Dalton, MA at the Stationery Factory with Johnny Irion (Producer) on a Studer Tape Machine owned by Jackson Browne. Brad and Johnny formed a spirited collaboration that included Johnny on Background Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keys, and drummer Brian Kantor (Fruit Bats, Vetiver) with Wes Buckley on Bass, and Rory Verbrugge on pedal steel.
“Go With the Flow” is the 5th full-length album from singer-songwriter Brad Lauretti. This new collection of songs was written mostly in Nashville, TN, and in various cities across Europe. After his last album “Real Job” was released Brad toured across Europe and Canada by himself, moved to Nashville, and finished writing the songs for this album from a beautiful balcony in Barcelona.
This Frontier Needs Heroes is the moniker of singer-songwriter Brad Lauretti, who in various forms and lineup changes, has spent the past 10 years playing shows all over the world. One night with Brad will run the gamut of all human emotions from humor, hedonism, activism to heartbreaking sadness. From Folk-Rock anthems to indie folk, flares of psychedelic, alt-country, to straight-up storytelling you get it all in one song. Influenced by songwriters like John Prine, Billy Bragg, Kris Kristofferson, and Townes Van Zandt his timeless songs mix love, humor, and protest seamlessly to get you through the tough times.
Originally from Brooklyn, NY Brad has traveled around a lot including stints in Nashville and Florida. He has performed at Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Folk Alliance International, Nordic Folk Alliance, Live at Heart (Sweden), Magnolia Festival, Hickey Fest, Gamble Rogers Folk Festival, Gram Parsons Guitar Pull, End of the Road (UK), Reeperbahn, Incubate, Athfest, Sing Out Loud, Savannah Stopover, and the winner of the Artsville Songwriting Contest. He is also the founder of the Stetson Kennedy Songwriter Residency.
He has supported Kath Bloom, Tallest Man on Earth, Handsome Family, Gruff Rhys, Daniel Romano, Cate Le Bon, David Dondero, Dar Williams, Chatham County Line, Scott H. Biram, She Keeps Bees and The Blank Tapes.
"This Frontier Needs Heroes brings a Nashville flair to the Northeast, yet retains a rugged folksy charm in line with The Basement Tapes and John Prine." -Glide Magazine
"This Frontier Needs Heroes’ song of longing for that heart’s ship that passed in the night. Lauretti’s songwriting instincts immediately draw you in to an all-too-familiar emotional space of yearning." -Americana Highways
"A captivating work of country/folk magic, sonically very reminiscent of the new Laurel Canyon sound associated with Jonathan Wilson and friends." -Lonesome Highway
"This Frontier Needs Heroes have been releasing music for over a decade and you can hear that lived-in feel in the playing and the maturity of the arrangement and sublime vocal melodies of singer-songwriter Brad Lauretti on this new song ‘South Dakota’. It’s a mix of gorgeous, folk-tinged vocals, the grit and electric twang of the guitar, combined with a sweet soul groove that Levon Helm would be proud of, that makes this such a great sound." -Post to Wire
"With the vocals raw and echoey, it opens with the title track, a laid back number about going where life takes you, inspired by floating downstream on tubes on North Florida’s freshwater springs and with a decided John Prine feel to it, fleshed-out by piano and bar-band guitar." -Folk Radio UK
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