Florence Dore w/ members of Son Volt and The dBs

Savvy and Insightful Americana Songwriter Florence Dore Returns with New Album - Highways & Rocketships

Professor by day and rock star by night, Florence Dore has been dwelling in the space between music and literature for most of her adult existence. All the different strands of her life and career come together on Highways & Rocketships, her first solo album in 21 years. Following a series of singles, the 10-song collection will be out June 10 on Propeller Sound Recordings, the new imprint run by former R.E.M. manager Jefferson Holt.

Highways & Rocketships hits the sweet spot between classic rock, Americana and 1980s-vintage college radio. The hooks, ambience and arrangements are impeccable, evoking both modern-day pop sense and vintage blue-eyed soul, featuring contributions from some of leading lights of the past four decades of American indie-rock – Son Volt’s Mark Spencer, sometimes-Springsteen bassist Jeremy Chatzky, dB’s members Will Rigby (Dore’s husband since 2004) and Peter Holsapple, Southern Culture on the Skids bassist Mary Huff, Mipso fiddler/vocalist Libby Rodenbough and legendary R.E.M. co-producers Don Dixon and Mitch Easter among them.

This show will be part of a two-day public humanities residency in Fayetteville. Florence will be giving a talk at the University of Arkansas Pryor Center Monday 9/19, so be sure and catch her lecture there too!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Smoke & Barrel, 324 West Dickson Street, Fayetteville, United States