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Luke Roberts: Silver Chain:: Official Video

Nashville-based Luke Roberts has released the video for “Silver Chain” featuring banjo accompaniment and backup vocals by Kurt Vile. “Silver Chain” sounds like a cross between Jay Mascis and Jeff Tweedy in a gentle alt-country arrangement. That said, it’s highly suspect that Jeff Tweedy is going that route again. The video for “Silver Chain” features the Great Smoky Mountains in their majestic glory, which provide an ample visual for the tune. The last time that I went to the Smokies, I encountered a terrifying wolf that gave me nightmares. I could swear that I heard that wolf scratching at the door of the cabin.

Asked about his experience, Director, Dillon Hayes reports, “Shooting for this video was one of my favorite experiences I’ve had behind the camera.

It was just me, DP Dustin Lane, and Luke driving through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Luke’s car, listening to Silver Chain over and over again. The song is beautiful, and we were constantly inspired by the combination of the music and the setting.” Shot on 16mm film on a Bolex, the images are gritty and real and downright stunning in a way that perfectly encapsulates the music of Luke Roberts.

Sunlit Cross was recorded at Ronniejone$ound with Kyle Spence (who, in addition to recording tracks for Kurt Vile’s B’lieve I’m Goin Down, also drums with Vile and Harvey Milk). Spence and Roberts worked extensively on arrangements and instrumentation resulting in the most sonically rich record of Roberts’ career. Kurt Vile, with whom Luke had toured, added unwaveringly backing vocals and banjo on “Silver Chain.” In addition to Vile, other collaborators include John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) on pedal steel and Creston Spiers (Harvey Milk) on viola, guitar, and piano.

Working in such a bucolic environment, the Georgia pines, birds and crickets echoing all around, suited Roberts. “It feels like you’re in a billionaire’s office in a treehouse,” Roberts says, “making music with some real pros.”

Nashville-based Luke Roberts has released the video for “Silver Chain” featuring banjo accompaniment and backup vocals by Kurt Vile. “Silver Chain” sounds like a cross between Jay Mascis and Jeff Tweedy in a gentle alt-country arrangement. That said, it’s highly suspect that Jeff Tweedy is going that route again. The video for “Silver Chain” features the Great Smoky Mountains in their majestic glory, which provide an ample visual for the tune. The last time that I went to the Smokies, I encountered a terrifying wolf that gave me nightmares. I could swear that I heard that wolf scratching at the door of the cabin.

Asked about his experience, Director, Dillon Hayes reports, “Shooting for this video was one of my favorite experiences I’ve had behind the camera.

It was just me, DP Dustin Lane, and Luke driving through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Luke’s car, listening to Silver Chain over and over again. The song is beautiful, and we were constantly inspired by the combination of the music and the setting.” Shot on 16mm film on a Bolex, the images are gritty and real and downright stunning in a way that perfectly encapsulates the music of Luke Roberts.

Sunlit Cross was recorded at Ronniejone$ound with Kyle Spence (who, in addition to recording tracks for Kurt Vile’s B’lieve I’m Goin Down, also drums with Vile and Harvey Milk). Spence and Roberts worked extensively on arrangements and instrumentation resulting in the most sonically rich record of Roberts’ career. Kurt Vile, with whom Luke had toured, added unwaveringly backing vocals and banjo on “Silver Chain.” In addition to Vile, other collaborators include John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) on pedal steel and Creston Spiers (Harvey Milk) on viola, guitar, and piano.

Working in such a bucolic environment, the Georgia pines, birds and crickets echoing all around, suited Roberts. “It feels like you’re in a billionaire’s office in a treehouse,” Roberts says, “making music with some real pros.”

Roberts has long searched for freedom – even as a kid growing up in East Nashville, he began train-hopping, exploring who he was and where he should be in the world. Four years after the release of his second album, The Iron Gates at Throop and Newport, Roberts has gone from living in a trailer in Montana to living on acreage in Tennessee, where he is learning how to farm. In the passing years, Roberts dealt with heartbreak and wanderlust, driving between New York and Nashville, living out of his car for weeks, traveling to Cambodia and Thailand and finally to Kenya, where he stayed with a family whose day-to-day challenges and simple needs impressed him. It was in Kenya where the songs on Sunlit Cross originated. The record is a lullaby, Roberts says, one that pits darkness and disenchantment and the ugly side of life against levity, love, and childhood.