The Wandering Hearts to Embark on Headline UK Tour
Acclaimed UK Americana trio The Wandering Hearts will embark on a headline UK Tour next month in support of their forthcoming album Déjà Vu (We Have All Been Here Before), out June 20 through Chrysalis Records on LP, CD & digital formats.
The Songs From Déjà Vu Tour will see The Wandering Hearts backed by a band of crack musicians as they perform their reimagining of the classic 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album. The tour starts in London at the iconic Union Chapel on June 12, and concludes at Pocklington Arts Centre in York on June 26.
The album includes The Wandering Hearts fresh new take on “Our House”, perhaps CSN&Y’s most famous song, and the band recently ran a competition to win an ‘Our House Session’. The band will go to the lucky winner’s house and perform an intimate set in front of their friends and family in their living room. The winner will be announced soon.
Championed by Bob Harris at Radio 2, the trio of Chess, Tara and vocalist/guitarist AJ Dean have twice reached No 1 in Official Charts’ Americana/Country Chart and been nominated for Album Of The Year at the UK Americana Awards. They’ve shared stages with the likes of Eagles and Robert Plant, and toured the US last year with Lissie.
Having established themselves as one of the UK’s most cherished Americana groups, The Wandering Hearts were ready to take on such a classic. Déjà Vu (We Have All Been Here Before) isn’t an album out to besmirch the original, but to become a loving companion to it, without being an overly reverential copy.
Déjà Vu (We Have All Been Here Before) was recorded with singer/producer Michael Rault (US Girls, July Talk) and singer-songwriter Pearl Charles at their Taurus Rising studio in Joshua Tree in the Californian desert. With The Wandering Hearts backed by a stellar cast of fellow musicians – drummer Garret Ray (Olivia Rodrigo, Sia), bassist Dustin Bookatz (Wim, Hero Fisher) and keyboardist Doug Organ (Linda Perry, Tegan And Sara).
The trio were aware they had to get the balance right between homage and reinvention in thinking how to reinvent the original record, as AJ reveals: “The more we talked about it, the more the idea of doing it ourselves appealed. With a cover, you either have to do something so different that it becomes something new, or because you love it so much that you have to pay tribute. I think our version of Déjà Vu is something in between.”
The Wandering Hearts’ Déjà Vu (We Have All Been Here Before) arrives barely a year after their third album, Mother, which continued their reputation as one of the finest vocal groups in any field. Although the band performed at the Americana Awards in 2019, when Graham Nash won a lifetime achievement prize, and worked with Lukas Nelson from Neil Young’s backing band The Chrome Hearts, they haven’t met any of CSN&Y.
They hope fans of the original approve, as AJ reasons: “It’s a record we love, that we’ve done our own thing with, without carbon copying it.”
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