State Of The Union return with some new tunes and a rescheduled full tour in March 2023

The Mighty, STATE OF THE UNION (Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams) - MARCH 2023

STATE OF THE UNION return with some new tunes and a rescheduled full tour in MARCH 2023.

Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams aka State of the Union, create a magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere with two guitars and two voices. Their performances are consistently brilliant, equal parts emotive and entertaining. Audiences are still buzzing about their previous festival main stage appearances.

The two formed their collaboration in 2011 and created two albums in rapid succession, State of the Union and Snake Oil. Subsequent tours took them around the UK, to Ireland and Portugal, including a 14-date stint playing theatres with Eddi Reader and an appearance on The Andrew Marr Show (BBC 1).

What followed in 2017 is Saltwell Sessions, an album of covers, some obscure and some well-known, including Don’t Blame Me (The Everly Brothers), Halfway (Greg Trooper) and Unforgettable (Nat King Cole). Their 25-date tour that followed saw full houses night after night. Here's another opportunity to catch the brilliant duo.

PLEASE GET IN TOUCH FOR LIVE DATES : MARCH 2023 (plus general availability) Get in touch now, contact gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk tel: + 44 (0) 7905 952 374 Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC Click here to go to BROOKS WILLIAMS Click here to go to BOO HEWERDINE

 

 

 

BOO HEWERDINE - New solo album tour MAY 2022

BOO HEWERDINE - New solo album tour MAY 2022

A master in the art of songwriting, Boo Hewerdine (The Bible) reaches his 60th year in the creative form of his life. Producing and collaborating with young artists, taking musical risks and focussing on the minute details of life through new songs.

Touring with a new solo album in May 2022 and releasing a new mini collaborative album titled 'Singularities' out on Reveal Records on 5 November 2021.

As much in demand as ever as a songwriter, Boo is a well loved musician and continues to write poignant lyrics about everyday life and people that resonate with everyone.

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FOR TOURING DATES THROUGHOUT MAY 2022

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Alan Ritson Will Be Talking To Brooks Williams On Lincoln City Radio on Tuesday 3 August 2021 @ 7pm.

 Tune in to Fine Folk on LCRFM 103.6FM (http://lcrlincoln.com) on Tuesday 3rd August at 7pm to listen to an interview with Alan Ritson speaking to Brooks Williams.

Brooks is an American acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. His style combines roots, jazz, blues, classical, and folk. He has released albums of contemporary folk music, blues music, and of instrumental guitar music.

In addition to his solo recordings and tours, he has frequently recorded and toured with many other musicians over the years, including Boo Hewerdine, Jim Henry, Guy Davis and Steve Tilston.

 

Brooks Williams

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State of the Union Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams Booking Now for 2019

STATE OF THE UNION - Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams \*\*\*BOOKING NOW FOR 2019 FESTIVALS\*\*\* "Beautiful, classy playing and great songs" - Acousti

STATE OF THE UNION - Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams ***BOOKING NOW FOR 2019 FESTIVALS*** Boo & Brooks "Beautiful, classy playing and great songs" - Acoustic Magazine “Americana at its finest!” - fRoots Combining the mercurial talents of English songwriting legend Boo Hewerdine and acclaimed American Blues guitarist and songwriter Brooks Williams, State of the Union create a magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere, their performances consistently brilliant, equal parts emotive and entertaining. The original songs Hewerdine & Williams play are infused by a multitude of influences, from Willie Nelson to Johnny Cash, from the wide open Fenlands to the frenetic buzz of the city. Their recordings are made quickly, in most instances first take, live in the studio, but the sound this amazing acoustic duo capture is rich and expertly executed. About Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams Boo is perhaps best known from his years fronting much loved English rock band The Bible but he has since enjoyed a solo career spanning over two decades and written thousands of published songs including those for Eddi Reader, Sia, Chris Difford, Kris Drever and KD Lang. His most recent album “Swimming In Mercury” is due out in February 2017 on Reveal Records. Brooks Williams got his start in the clubs and bars in Boston USA (the same music scene that years earlier sparked the careers of Bonnie Raitt and Chris Smither) and from there he has toured in ever-widening circles for nearly three decades. In 2013 Williams was nominated best male vocalist by the UK’s foremost roots-music mavens, Spiral Earth. AmericanaUK says, “he has a beautiful voice that you just melt into.” He’s also ranked in the Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists. Over the years he has picked alongside Taj Mahal, John Hammond, Paul Jones, Little Feat, Maria Muldaur, Shawn Colvin and Leo Kottke, to name but a few. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO Boo & Brooks More about State of the Union, In conversation: How did you meet and when did you start playing music together? Brooks: “Boo invited me to step in last minute to play at his annual Christmas concert. I played a solo set and then sat in with Boo for a few songs. Even though we had never played together before it had a real magic feel to it. I think both of us knew there was something unique happening and worth exploring”. Boo: “Brooks came and played at one of my Christmas shows when there was so much snow my other guests couldn’t make it! It was magic and we decided to do more. We had actually met once before when Brooks interviewed me for a guitar magazine. Which is a bit like Muhammad Ali interviewing Eddie The Eagle….He is a guitar master!”. What are the main differences in your guitar styles / playing and approach to songwriting? Brooks: “On paper our two worlds are pretty far apart, but somehow we’re able to bring them together. It’s an overused phrase but I believe there is some real musical magic in State Of The Union. I like to think it gives us both the opportunity to showcase our ‘expected’ strengths, but also to explore and dig in to the other aspects of our music. In a way SOTU is an alter-ego”. Boo: “Brooks is a bluesman (of great subtlety) from Georgia and I was in an 80’s indie band….and yet it worked right away. I think the route of why it works musically is both of us have a love of good time… a sense of rhythm. And we both love the craft of writing”. What do you enjoy most about the duo’s live performances? Brooks: “It’s the whole package - getting to create a pretty big sound with just two guitars and two voices. Audiences from our earlier tours know what I mean. It’s fun. It’s big. And I’m not aware of anyone else doing it exactly like SOTU”. Boo: “It feels so much more than the sum of the parts…whenever we revisit SOTU it kicks into gear with ease, in a spooky way!”. What does State of The Union mean / why did you pick this band name ? Brooks: “Boo came up with the name. It represents us pretty well, I think. Two distinctly different musicians from different parts of the world with two different sets of influences coming together and making music. And even though on paper it shouldn’t work, there’s so much shared inspiration that it takes on a pretty cool life of its own”. Boo & Brooks For all booking enquiries and details on availability please contact: GAIL COOKE LAUGHING DOG MUSIC gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk 07905 952374 Click here for LAUGHING DOG MUSIC Click here for BROOKS WILLIAMS Click here for BOO HEWERDINE Click here for REVEAL RECORDS ©2018 Laughing Dog Music | Laughing Dog Music

Laughing Dog Artists for 2018 Festival Bookings

Laughing Dog Artists for 2018 Festival bookings STILLHOUSE CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO JILL JACKSON CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO FINDLAY NAPIER CLICK HERE FOR

Laughing Dog Artists for 2018 Festival bookings STILLHOUSE STILLHOUSE CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO Jill Jackson JILL JACKSON CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO FINDLAY NAPIER CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO DAN WHITEHOUSE CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO BROOKS WILLIAMS CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO BOO HEWERDINE CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO KLEZMER-ISH CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO Wes Finch & The Rude Mechanicals WES FINCH CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH FOR FESTIVAL DATES IN 2018 Dates may be available outside of these periods so please enquire. Get in touch now, contact gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk tel: + 44 (0) 7905 952 374 Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC ©2018 Laughing Dog Music | Laughing Dog Music

Boo Hewerdine - Band dates released for December

Band dates released for December "One of the country’s most consistently admired songwriters" - Folk Radio UK "Simple, poetic reflections on life an

Band dates released for December Boo Hewerdine "One of the country’s most consistently admired songwriters" - Folk Radio UK "Simple, poetic reflections on life and love" - The Guardian FULL BAND DATES AVAILABLE - 11 / 12 / 15 / 17 December 2017 Boo is well known as one of the greatest songwriter performers in the business, but incredibly, its been 7 years since Boo released his last studio album of original material 'God Bless The Pretty Things'. Not that he's been inactive, far from it, the period has been the most productive of his career. Boo wrote Radio Ballads for the BBC's Olympic and recent Child Migration series. There has been a huge array of writing and producing with both established and upcoming artists and passing something on to budding writers via his much loved song-writing workshops. Boo spent three years writing a daily blog which lead to podcast fun with that staff of The WORD (RIP) and invitations to join Radio broadcasts such as The Verb (BBC Radio 3) and a moment of personal satisfaction when his work was included in the radio round up Pick Of The Week on BBC Radio 4. Boo formed the duo State Of The Union with American guitarist Brooks Williams and recorded and released two albums and an EP, live in the studio with engineer Mark Freegard, the duo appeared on BBC1 TV Andrew Marr show performing their cover of Pet Shop Boys Rent. Boo has written lyrics and played on over 30 new recordings by and with other artists during the period including the acclaimed 2014 album (Vagabond) and 2015 EP (Back The Dogs) with Scottish singer Eddi Reader, Last Man Standing Ep (2015) with Kris Drever of Lau and Duke Special. Reveal Records compiled the first document of his career to date with a fine Best of compilation My Name In Brackets and swiftly followed that with an album of lost recordings found in a box! This album was Open which received five star reviews and was number 5 in the Telegraph Albums of The Year 2015. His new album Swimming in Mercury was released this month to critical acclaim. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO Boo Hewerdine Hewerdine says... “I felt like I had to wait for the right time to tell some old stories, working on the Best of compilation My Name In Brackets and finding the Open recordings took me back a little, each song a placed me in a memory. I soon realised I had to go further and revisit the time when I was first making music. Taking the bus down to Rough Trade in London with my demo tape Julia, playing cheap guitars with broken strings. For Swimming In Mercury and Born I have used instruments I’ve not used for years. The process has been more akin to when I was starting out in an indie band. I used my father’s old beat up piano and I wrote some songs with my son, Ben which was great. The lyrics came fast, I trusting my pen. Boo will also be touring with his band doing a few exclusive dates in December (11/12/15/ 17 available), here is the line-up: Boo - vocals and guitar Chris Pepper - drums Chris Bradbury - guitar and keyboards Mark Ellis - Bass CLICK HERE FOR BOO'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL Boo Hewerdine AVAILABILITY FOR 11/12/15/17 DEC (BAND) + Solo dates for 2018 PLEASE CONTACT: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC Click here to go to BOO HEWERDINE Click here to go to REVEAL RECORDS BB Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company