Travers Gregory's New Album 'Highway Kings' Out 4/12

By: Mar. 29, 2017
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Travers Geoffray is a New Orleans musician through and through. A third generation NOLA jazz musician, Geoffray honed his craft with years of performing in the city's institution of a band Mississippi Rail Company. Now he is releasing his first-ever solo album, Highway Kings, on April 12th. Courtesy of Relix, listen to the title track HERE.

Produced by Grammy-winning gospel/bluegrass vet Michael Latterel (Jim Lauderdale, Rhonda Vincent) at Nashville's House of Blues Studio, Highway Kings is about the lures and pitfalls of the open road, stretching like an empty canvas before him, as Travers starts up the engine of his solo career, examining what makes him tick. The new songs were more introspective, varied, and less about maintaining that party atmosphere all night long. Pre-order it HERE.
"I spent almost two years writing "Highway Kings"," explained Geoffray of writing the title track. "It took on many forms. Different melodies, different keys, different lyrics, different tempos, different changes. Writing "Highway Kings" felt like solving a crossword. "Highway Kings" became a catalyst for many of the other songs on the record. Some songs were written before or around the time of "Highway Kings", but "Highway Kings" tied them all together, gave them context. A world to live in."
Combining the organic Americana roots of Sturgill Simpson, the lyrical depth of Jason Isbell and Tom Waits' Tin Pan Alley/country-blues hybrid story-telling, Highway Kings' songs are both literary and cinematic, evoking the epic sweep of "The Grapes of Wrath" in the title track, with its trip through Oklahoma and "the buffalos on golden prairies up above the Utah sky," ending up at the "crystal shores" of California.
"I love the mystique of the open road and traveling," he says. "Many of these songs are not just about physical trips, but the imaginary ones we go on in our heads, because a lot of people can't just pick up and go when they please."
Travers is hitting the open road himself this month, performing on the Acura Main Stage at the New Orleans' Jazz and Heritage Festival, as well as headlining shows in the music cities of Nashville and Athens, Georgia. All upcoming tour dates are listed below.
TOUR DATES
3/31 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
4/23 - Nashville, TN - The Basement
4/24 - Athens, GA - Georgia Theater Rooftop
4/29 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
4/29 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
Pre-Order 'Highway Kings' HERE


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