Joy Williams' WHEN DOES A HEART MOVE ON Released Today

Joy Williams' new song, "When Does a Heart Move On" is out today. Listen HERE.

This is the fourth track unveiled from Williams' highly anticipated new solo album, Front Porch, which will be released May 3 via Sensibility/Thirty Tigers and is now available forpre-order. Each pre-order comes with an immediate download of "When Does a Heart Move On" as well as three previously released songs: the title track, "Canary" and "The Trouble With Wanting."

Already receiving widespread attention, the official music video for "Front Porch" recently premiered at Billboard, who proclaims, "On the memorable ballad she sings of retreating to the comfort of a front porch and the lyrics come alive within the characters in her powerful video." Watch/share HERE. Additionally, of "Canary," Rolling Stone proclaims, "As usual, her voice stills the spotlight, with everything building toward Williams' ringing, crystal-clear glory note in each chorus," and Houston Chronicle furthers, "Williams' vocal on the song reflects the assertiveness of its subject. A moment in its refrain finds her reaching high for a note and finding it." In addition to the official audio, live performance versions of both tracks-filmed at a 2018 show at The Franklin Theatre-can be viewed here: "Canary (Live)" and "The Trouble With Wanting (Live)." Most recently, Williams' cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" was released as part of her "Live from the Front Porch" series.

Produced by Kenneth Pattengale of The Milk Carton Kids and engineered by Matt Ross-Spang, Front Porch features 12 new songs and represents a new chapter in Williams' career, who recorded the album in Nashville during the pregnancy of her second child. She reflects, "There is an energy that is very creative in having a baby. It gives a sense of urgency on top of all the creative energy. Cellularly, your body is experiencing something really different. Everything you are feeling is elevated. And you have a time-stamped sense of urgency." Already receiving praise, Rolling Stone states the new music, "...is both familiar and new, and explicitly clear that there's nothing missing when she goes it alone."

"So much of this is about coming home," says Williams. "Whether to a physical place or to yourself. The lines on my face, I can see them more clearly now. But a lot of them are laugh lines. This record feels like breathing more deeply into who I am. Come what may."

Joy Williams is the winner of four Grammy Awards. She has released four solo albums and four EPs since her self-titled debut in 2001. She was half of The Civil Wars from 2009 until 2014, after which she released her solo LP, 2015's VENUS, which was praised by NPR Music for it's "new, more adventurous pop sound," furthering, "Williams takes on this material without shirking its heaviness, but her gift for melodies that rise up like warm winds brings a climate of grace to even the most difficult subject matter."

FRONT PORCH TRACK LIST

1. Canary
2. Front Porch
3. When Does a Heart Move On
4. All I Need
5. The Trouble With Wanting
6. No Place Like You
7. One and Only
8. When Creation Was Young
9. Preacher's Daughter
10. Hotel St. Cecilia
11. Be With You
12. Look How Far We've Come

Image: Album cover, photo credit: Andy Barron

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