Long Way Home

Grammy award winning singer songwriter Ray LaMontagne has announced the release of his new studio album "Long Way Home", out August 16th, 2024. Ahead of the album, LaMontagne unveiled the lead single "Step Into Your Power", accompanied by a video created with his son Tobias.

Produced with Seth Kauffman (Angel Olsen, Lana Del Ray), the 9 track folk rock album was recorded over the course of a few weeks in LaMontagne’s home studio. The 1st 3 tracks of "Long Way Home" include backing vocals from The Secret Sisters, while the album was engineered and mixed by LaMontagne, Kauffman and Ariel Bernstein.

The central theme of the record is the singer’s youth, and his days as a 21 years old sitting in a small club in Minneapolis, watching a Townes Van Zandt performance. LaMontagne reflects, “30 years later it occurs to me that every song on 'Long Way Home' is in one way or another honouring the journey. The languorous days of youth and innocence. The countless battles of adulthood, some won, more often lost. It's been a long hard road, and I wouldn’t change a minute. It took me 9 songs to express what Townes managed to say in one line. I guess I still got a lot to learn”.

LaMontagne has released 8 studio albums since his 2004 debut, "Trouble", which is certified platinum. 2006’s "Till The Sun Turns Black" and 2008’s "Gossip In The Grain" saw gold certifications. He received 2 Grammy nominations and won the award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for "God Willin’ And The Creek Don’t Rise".