Single I Elles Bailey – Sunshine City
Take a Trip to Sunshine City with Elles Bailey’s New Single
Ever-rising, award-winning Elles Bailey releases the next single from her next album, ‘Shining in the Half Light’. That single is Sunshine City, released on Friday 15th Oct, following in the ongoing successful wake of ‘Cheats and Liars’.Elles’ forthcoming album is due for release in early 2022.
Elles will also be touring in the UK between 28th October and 11th December on her headline Sunshine City Tour. 7 venues have already sold out, with three on final ticket warnings so book ASAP!
Elles Bailey confidently straddles the worlds of Blues, Americana, Roots and Rock, earning top awards and accolades.
Her vocal stylings and songwriting skills are of consistent excellence, as heard on her hit albums ‘Wildfire’ and ‘Road I Call Home’ — the latter winning The UK Blues Awards’ Album of The Year — and that doesn’t change on‘Shining in The Half Light’. Elles has co-written every track on it, working with a rich array of collaborators both here in the UK and over the Atlantic in Nashville. However, unlike her last records — both recorded Stateside — this is her first UK-recorded offering. She and her touring band headed to Devon to Middle Farm Studios in Dec 2020 to record the album in isolation, with new producer Dan Weller.
As Elles described her album to Blazing Minds, “It still sounds like an Elles Bailey record, but it does feel like it’s expanded, and the band were on fire!”
Sunshine City’— the second single — follows ‘Cheats and Liars’ (released in August, 2021), which has spent a mighty 7 weeks on the Planet Rock A-ListPlaylist (plus 2 weeks on the B-List), as well as being the most-played track on the station between 16th August-12th October (according to the UK Airplay Charts). ‘Cheats and Liars’ continues to be supported by Spotify on their Blues and Roots Rock playlist.
Straight out of the gate, ‘Sunshine City’ hits and hooks you with forceful rock guitar, pacy percussion, engaging bass and subtly shimmery keyboards. Then, prepared to be wowed as Elles’ uniquely timbred lead vocals enter the fray, showing her range, style and power. All these things fuse together to make this song one of Elles’ rockiest releases, showing how a woman rightly crowned “The Blues Princess” by Blues in Britain can cross and transcend genres’, moving effortlessly between blues, Americana, country, roots and rock. With music this fine, labels aren’t what matters: it’s lived experience and feeling. Elles shows rock drive and gusto aplenty and you’ll also find some soaring, exuberant guitar solos from Joe Wilkins in this up-tempo number.
Speaking of her latest single, Elles says, “I guess you could say it’s the polar opposite to my last single ‘Cheats & Liars’ — ‘Sunshine City’ doesn’t take itself seriously in any way! It’s my ’throw your hair back, laugh out loud, put your foot down, drive faster’ kind of a tune.”
Website: https://www.ellesbailey.com/
