TERRA LIGHTFOOT RELEASES NEW STRIPPED DOWN ALBUM, HOME FRONT, OUT TODAY VIA MIDNIGHT CHOIR / SONIC UNYON
WATCH / SHARE “A GOOD SIGN” HERE
BUY / STREAM HOME FRONT HERE
BUY HOME FRONT PHYSICAL LP HERE
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS WEEK
CANADIAN TOUR DATES COMMENCE DECEMBER 4, TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
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Today, Terra Lightfoot is releasing her new album, Home Front, which was recorded “in the living room, on the back porch, in the relaxing moments after dinner or the late evening, when the crickets and peepers were singing their loudest,” of Lightfoot’s scenic home in Ontario’s Haliburton Highlands.
The album’s opening track, “A Good Sign”, was “the song that inspired the move to the country house, and this record, in the first place,” says Lightfoot. “A friend called and invited me to a place called ‘Peace Island’ not far from where we live now. I spent a week there in an old log cabin during the summer of 2020, and fell in love with the area. I wrote this song on the dock while staring out at the water at sunset. After many pandemic months spent in Hamilton in a small apartment with no outdoor space, the silence and vast openness of the wilderness and the lake was almost jarring. I wrote out the words and music, and a few months later ended up buying a house only a few minutes down the road.”
WATCH / SHARE “A GOOD SIGN” HERE
BUY / STREAM HOME FRONT HERE
BUY HOME FRONT PHYSICAL LP HERE
MORE ABOUT TERRA LIGHTFOOT + HOME FRONT
Seasoned rocker Terra Lightfoot has a well-earned reputation as a tireless live performer, with a tour history mapped across the globe and awards testifying to every mile logged along the way. To date, Lightfoot's marathon tours have touched down in eight countries across four continents. She also conceived, created, curated, produced and co-headlined The Longest Road Show, an all-female touring revue.
Most fans would reasonably assume that the singer-songwriter’s natural element is in the spotlight. But even accomplished touring artists like Lightfoot feel the insistent tug of home. That place, which for Lightfoot is a scenic hideaway, is captured in warm detail on the artist’s intimate new album, Home Front. In stark contrast to the anthemic alt-pop riffs of 2017’s New Mistakes and 2023’s Healing Power (each of which earned the artist JUNO Award nominations and Polaris Music Prize long list nods), this is an unplugged session in more ways than one.
LISTEN / SHARE “ALREADY THERE IN MY MIND” HERE
“This house is a special place,” explains Lightfoot. “It sits all by itself between woods and streams that go on for acres and acres and a beautiful wetland teeming with wildlife. I find myself living more comfortably in my own bones than ever before when I’m here. There is a deep quiet here, in the house that backs onto the beaver marsh. Blue herons fly, and moose and bears walk the forest path out back. It is a place where I can’t help but be more connected to the natural world. Being so engrossed in the world of loud rock ’n’ roll guitar doesn’t leave a lot of space for field recording or softly strummed nylon strings. Home Front is the place where I can share all those softer and sweeter moments.”
WATCH / SHARE “RED” FEAT. BILL PRIDDLE HERE
MORE ABOUT TERRA LIGHTFOOT
Terra Lightfoot is a JUNO Award and Polaris Music Prize nominated guitarist-singer-songwriter originally from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2020, she marked her first decade as a recording artist with Consider the Speed, recorded by Grammy-winning producer Jay Newland at Memphis' legendary Royal Studios. In early 2022, Lightfoot launched her own label, Midnight Choir, with single “Sleepyhead.” Sixth album Healing Power (released Oct 2023) reunited her with producer/engineer Gus van Go for a career-best outing that earned the artist a second JUNO Award nomination (for Best Adult Alternative Album of The Year) as well as a long-list nomination for the Polaris Music Prize.
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HOME FRONT TRACKLIST
1. A Good Sign
2. Sleepyhead
3. Already There In My Mind
4. The Queen of Trout Lake
5. Red Feat. Bill Priddle
6. Yours Forever
7. Counted On You
8. Out Of Time
9. Shooting Star
10. A Case of You
11. Hummingbirds Hum
TOUR DATES
Oct 17 - Uddevalla, SE - Uddevallakassetten
Oct 18 - Herrang, SE - Folkets Hus
Nov 11 - Belfast, IE - The Black Box
Nov 12 - Dublin, IE - Whelan's
Nov 13 - Glasgow, SCT - Saint Luke's
Nov 14 - Huddersfield, ENG - The Parish
Nov 16 - Manchester, ENG - The Deaf Institute
Nov 17 - London, ENG - 100 Club
Nov 19 - Dresden, GER - Jazzclub Tonne
Nov 21 - Darmstadt, GER - Central Station
Nov 23 - Cologne, GER - Gebaude 9
Nov 24 - Berlin, GER - Passionskirche
Nov 25 - Hamburg, GER - Fabrik
Nov 26 - Utrecht, NL - Tivoli Vredenburg
Dec 4 - St. Catharines, ON - Warehouse Concert Hall w/ Loviet
Dec 5 - Hamilton, ON - Bridgeworks w/ Loviet
Dec 6 - Toronto, ON - The Danforth Music Hall supporting The Trews
Dec 11 - Guelph, ON - Sonic Hall w/ Loviet
Dec 13 - London, ON - London Music Hall supporting The Trews
Feb 13 - Haliburton, ON - Haliburton Legion
Feb 21 - Burnstown, ON - The Neat Cafe
PRAISE FOR TERRA LIGHTFOOT
“One of Canada's best all-around musicians... an amazing tour de force, the complete package” - CBC Music
“Canada’s Terra Lightfoot has a huge voice and a big and gutsy guitar tone to match”
- Guitar Player
“Cuts like lightning to a tree” - The Globe and Mail
“One of today’s brightest emerging rock artists” - Twangville
“Timeless influences from above and below the border” - American Songwriter
“Drawing from rock, soul and blues, Terra Lightfoot is a monster talent” - PopMatters