WATCH AND SHARE “NORMA GALE” HERE
NEW MISTAKES, OUT NOW VIA SONIC UNYON
"A wildness lurks and prowls the 12 tracks, and even at its most polished, New Mistakes wants to be raw...a Canadian songwriting legend in the making.” - CBC Music
"Perfectly suited for stadium-sized crowds to sing along to… without sacrificing the nuance or creativity that were hallmarks of her prior albums" - Exclaim!
"New Mistakes is Lightfoot's most accomplished music yet" - PopMatters
"[New Mistakes is] a map of the heart featuring a masterful balance of hard riffs, heart-wrenching ballads, and soaring choruses" - The Record
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Terra Lightfoot has shared a new music video for the single "Norma Gale". With a compelling narrative and simmering arrangement that builds from subdued organ chords to an explosive refrain, the song pays tribute to the eponymous Nashville songwriter. The video further details Gale's journey through the 1970s Nashville music scene with photos and imagery from her life. The video premiered today via the The Boot.
WATCH AND SHARE “NORMA GALE” HERE
Lightfoot explains the poignant story behind the song: "I was inspired to write this song after meeting a Canadian woman named Norma Gale who was a near-famous country star in the 1970s. She played all over the world but specifically had a great following in Nashville, played with Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty. This song is one of my first songwriter songs, I'd say. It chronicles the life of Norma as a musician in the ’70s, and trying to bring up her young son while she's gunning for sustainable success. I kept in touch with Norma and her son and let them know when I finally made it to Nashville to do some writing, but unfortunately she had passed away two weeks earlier."
Produced by Gus van Go and Werner F (Arkells, Sam Roberts Band, Wintersleep), New Mistakes is a heady journey. As poignant as it is rollicking and vulnerable as it is rowdy, it cruises long and sometimes lonesome highways that lead everywhere from brokedown dive bars and endless prairie skies to mountain ranges and the Mojave Desert.
Built around Lightfoot’s killer live band the session impresses on all counts. It’s Lightfoot’s hungriest and most raw album to date, able to mesmerize with graceful melodies one moment, and step into the ring to deliver a hurricane of hooks or a heart-wrenching chorus the next.
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Having just completed her first tour in Japan, Lightfoot is now on the road in Australia and will return to Canada later this month to continue supporting Whitehorse before heading to the UK on tour. Full tour dates can be found below.
TERRA LIGHTFOOT ON TOUR
Nov 9 - Sydney, NSW - LeadBelly
Nov 10, 11, 12 - Majors Creek, NSW - Majors Creek Festival
Nov 16 - Brisbane, QLD - Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall
Nov 22 - Montreal, QC - Cafe Campus %
Nov 27 - Leeds, UK - Oporto
Nov 28 - London, UK - The Waiting Room
Nov 30 - Edinburgh, UK - The Leith Depot
Dec 1 - Suffolk, UK - Easton Farm Park
Dec 2 - Ullapool, UK - The Arch Inn (solo)
Dec 8 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall %
Jan 12, 13 - Hamilton, ON - McMaster LIVElab
Jan 20 - Halifax, NS - In The Dead Of Winter Festival
% with Whitehorse