Luray Announces Tour Dates
By: Kaitlin Milligan Jul. 17, 2019
Luray, the Richmond, VA by way of Wisconsin musician also known as Shannon Carey, is excited to announce upcoming tour dates in support of the new album Dig, out July 26th on 6131 Records. Dig was produced by her brother S. Carey and recorded with engineer Brian Joseph, whose own credits include Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell and Local Natives Sunlit Youth among others. Today Luray also sharing the new single "Green And Golden". Early praise for the music found on Dig comes from The New York Times, who write that her songs take Carey "where introspection can carry her: from banjo picking to distant roaring electric guitars to glimmering thumb-piano plinks, from isolation to sweet intransigence." All upcoming tour dates may be found below.
Evocative music can be some of the best. And Carey, who performs under the moniker Luray, has a particular knack for doing just that. Her songs feel welcoming, yet elusive, like a long-forgotten photograph you find at the bottom of a box, a memory that gets hazier with each passing year.
"My songs tell me what's going on with me, like my unconscious trying to get my attention," explains Carey, who had plenty to unravel in her life leading up to the recording of her sophomore full length, Dig. "My marriage broke up while I was writing this album and the songs started to speak to me about my relationship and what I was hoping for and holding onto. What I wasn't letting myself acknowledge. I moved to Richmond and set to finishing the songs for the record. I wrote more songs about how it felt to lose, and how it felt to be starting over."
Although Carey has called Richmond, Virginia home for a number of years, her music has an inescapable imprint of her Wisconsin upbringing. And it's back in Eau Claire, Wisconsin that she set about recording the album, enlisting her brother Sean Carey to produce. "The band drove out to Wisconsin and met up with Sean and engineer Brian Joseph, who had just completed building his own studio, which he called The Hive. It's in the woods and feels very 'Northern Wisconsin' -feels like a little haven from the world." The Hive became the perfect locale to capture such a personal collection of songs. "It's hard to explain how intimate the recording process was, but it felt very insular and almost delicate. After the end of that relationship that had been so central, I felt a little fragile and obviously in transition. Sometimes you can hear something tentative in my vocals. I had been getting my new life together for the past year, but it still felt strange."
The eleven songs that came to form Dig provide a stolen glance at a snapshot of Shannon Carey's life, yet invite listeners into the story to explore for themselves. It also marks the closing of one chapter and the beginning of the next.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
AUGUST
15 - Washington, DC - Songbyrd
16 - Richmond, VA - Gallery 5
SEPTEMBER
06 - Charlottesville, VA - The Garage
19 - Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse
20 - Eau Claire, WI - Oxbow Hotel
21 - Fort Atkinson, WI - Cafe Carpe
22 - Chicago, IL - Music Means Family *house show
OCTOBER
09 - New York, NY - Rockwood Music Hall
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