OLD MAN LUEDECKE RELEASES DELUXE EDITION OF SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO

November 14, 2025

SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE OUT TODAY VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

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Today, two-time JUNO Award winner Old Man Luedecke releases the deluxe edition of his 2024, electric guitar-driven record She Told Me Where To Go. Commenting on the release of this deluxe edition, Luedecke says, “My banjo never made it onto the original version of She Told Me Where To Go. Though it was always in the trunk of my car or in the corner of the studio, and though the songs have rung out with it in countless concerts since the album's release in 2024, the decision in the recording sessions was always “no banjo.” Now, however, we present several of the album cuts reimagined in my classic format of solo banjo and voice. Hope you enjoy, find yourself munching pleasantly on the words, and share it with friends and family.”

The deluxe edition also includes his cover of Cat Power’s “The Greatest” featuring Willa Owen. "As a lyrics guy, I didn’t really know what this was about but felt its melancholy resignation so deeply and the release in the tag line for many years,” says Luedecke. “Earlier this year, I saw a moving Cat Power performance at Port Fairy Folk Festival in Australia that was affecting and highly theatrical and which infiltrated my subsequent dreams. Looking for a song to sing that would be a challenge, I found myself listening to this on repeat around a visit to a Bavarian restaurant in rural New Brunswick. On the morning of the session, I called my friend Willa Owen to help me out as I was leaving for the studio. She helped a lot and this happened."

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MORE ABOUT SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE
Old Man Luedecke lumbered up the highway to record these tunes with Joshua Van Tassel (Bahamas, Donovan Woods). The thought was to strip the songs down to the studs, just Chris and his banjo. They revisited a few album tracks, including the title track, and added a new song, the lead single “Five and Ten” an ode to older, simpler times. “It’s a song about the passage of time, both melancholy and tender that touches on love and ambition,” cites Luedecke.

Behind She Told Me Where to Go, Luedecke toured from his home in the maritimes to far reaching parts of Canada’s arctic, on through to Europe, and down to Australia and many parts in between. Hot off the heels of wins at the East Coast Music Awards and the Nova Scotia Music Awards, he’ll be back down under early in 2026 as well as making a couple stops in Canada.

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SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE TRACKLIST
01 She Told Me Where to Go
02 Guy Fieri
03 Going on the Mountain
04 The Quiet Good
05 The Raven and the Dove
06 Shine on Love (feat. Reeny Smith)
07 My Status is the Baddest (feat. Bahamas)
08 Dreadful Wind and Rain
09 Misfits in Old Clothes
10 Red Eye
11 Our Moment in the Sage
12 Holy Rain
13 Five and Ten
14 The Raven and the Dove (Banjo Version)
15 She Told Me Where To Go (Banjo Version)
16 My Status is the Baddest (Banjo Version)
17 The Greatest (feat. Willa Owen)

TOUR DATES
Nov. 15 - Hugh’s Room - Toronto, ON
Dec. 30 - Jan 2 - Whare Flat Folk Festival - Halfway Bush, NZ
Jan. 4 - Wunderbar - Lyttleton, NZ
Jan. 7 - The Merri Creek Tavern - Northcote, NZ
Jan. 9 - MONA - Berridale, AUS
Jan. 9-11 - Cygnet Folk Festival - Cygnet, AUS
Jan. 12 - House Concert - Neika, AUS
Jan. 14 - The Vanguard - Newton, AUS
Jan. 15 - Smith’s Alternative - Canberra, AUS
Jan. 16-18 - Illawarra Folk Festival - Bulli, AUS
Jan. 23-25 - Auckland Folk Festival - Auckland, NZ
Mar. 7 - Bow Valley Music Club - Calgary, AB
Mar. 21 - PEI Bluegrass Festival - Dundas, PEI
Mar. 28 - Folkus Concert Series - Almonte, ON

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OLD MAN LUEDECKE TO RELEASE SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE EDITION

October 22, 2025

FEATURING LEAD SINGLE “FIVE AND TEN”, NEW RECORDINGS AND A COVER OF CAT POWER’S “THE GREATEST”

SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 14 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

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Today, two-time JUNO Award winner Old Man Luedecke announces a deluxe edition of his 2024, electric guitar-driven record She Told Me Where To Go with the previously unreleased track “Five and Ten”. The song is a tender and melancholic reflection on the passage of time, and its rolling banjo line sets the tone for the five new songs included in this extended version of the album.

Commenting on the release of this deluxe edition, Luedecke says, “My banjo never made it onto the original version of She Told Me Where To Go. Though it was always in the trunk of my car or in the corner of the studio, and though the songs have rung out with it in countless concerts since the album's release in 2024, the decision in the recording sessions was always “no banjo.” Now, however, we present several of the album cuts reimagined in my classic format of solo banjo and voice. Hope you enjoy, find yourself munching pleasantly on the words, and share it with friends and family.”

LISTEN / SHARE “FIVE AND TEN” HERE
BUY / STREAM “FIVE AND TEN” HERE

Old Man Luedecke lumbered up the highway to record these tunes with Joshua Van Tassel (Bahamas, Donovan Woods). The thought was to strip the songs down to the studs, just Chris and his banjo. They revisited a few album tracks, including the title track, as well as a back porch take on Cat Power’s “The Greatest”, with indie pop artist, and fellow Nova Scotian, Willa Owen joining him on vocals. “Earlier this year,” says Old Man Luedecke, “I saw a moving Cat Power performance at Port Fairy Folk Festival in Australia that was affecting and highly theatrical, and which infiltrated my subsequent dreams. Looking for a song to sing that would be a challenge, I found myself listening to this on repeat around a visit to a Bavarian restaurant in rural New Brunswick. On the morning of the session, I called my friend Willa to help me out as I was leaving for the studio. She adds a wonderful delicate foundation.”

Also, on this deluxe edition, a new song, the lead single “Five and Ten” an ode to older, simpler times. “It’s a song about the passage of time, both melancholy and tender that touches on love and ambition,” cites Luedecke.

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OLD MAN LUEDECKE SHARES NEW SINGLE, ON TOUR THIS WEEK

October 10, 2024

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Today, two time JUNO Award winner Old Man Luedecke is sharing the new single “Drinking Down The Gold” to kick off the beginning of his fall tour dates throughout Canada and Europe. Full tour dates can be found below. The track is the first of a few upcoming Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) produced singles that were recorded during the She Told Me Where to Go sessions in 2022.

“Drinking Down the Gold” is a beautiful ode to the ancient fellowship of drinking with friends. Drinking and talking and laughing in spite of it all. Drinking songs have long been an enthusiasm for Old Man Luedecke (“Little Stream of Whisky”, “I am Fine”) and this may be his last, since like many a good fellow before him he has lately succumbed to an alcohol-free lifestyle.

A beautiful tune with a lyric that name checks Valhalla, charts the progress of an evening and the morning after and like a fine drop of whisky warms the heart’s best places. This is a song to carry you into the darker months of the year with a holy sense of doing what you want with the sacrament of friendly carrying on.

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TOUR DATES
Oct 10 - Revelstoke, BC - Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre
Oct 11 - Vancouver, BC - The Rogue Folk Club
Oct 14 - Paris, FR - La Boule Noire
Oct 16 - Fredericia, DK - Tøjhuset
Oct 17 - København K, DK - Hotel Cecil
Oct 20 - Duffle, BE - Cinema Plaza Duffel
Oct 22 - Stuttgart, DE - Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Oct 23 - Lucerne, CH - Konzerthaus Schüür
Oct 29 - London, ON - Aeolian Hall
Oct 30 - Toronto, ON - Hugh’s Room
Oct 31 - Ottawa, ON - Fourth Stage
Nov 1 - Aurora, ON - Aurora Cultural Centre
Nov 21 - Halifax, NS - Light House Arts Centre
Dec 13 - Truro, NS - Marigold Cultural Centre

MORE ABOUT OLD MAN LUEDECKE’S SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO
How did Old Man Luedecke go from touring the world with his banjo to suddenly giving it all up to work as a deckhand on a scallop boat, and abandoning his signature instrument?

“I was just going over to my scallop farming neighbour’s house to get some scallops to have for dinner”, says Chris. “Knowing that the live music world had slowed down, he asked me if I wanted a job on his boat” And so, Luedecke accepted and began going out to sea in the North Atlantic, not far from his family home in rural Nova Scotia. He was giving up the game of music.

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Throughout that time working on the water, song ideas would pop in his head, and Chris would stash them away in his sea salt-stained notebook and battered iphone, not sure if anything would ever come of them. During downtimes, Chris and his family would host all-day sap boils and wiener roasts over an open fire on their property where they tapped their maple trees and boiled the sap to make syrup in the late days of several winters. A frequent visitor to these fires was Afie Jurvanen, aka Bahamas, who brought his family over for the BBQ and syrup and to chat music and play around on their guitars.

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“What about not playing the banjo on your next record?” suggested Jurvanen. Initially, Chris thought those may have been fighting words, and prepared to throw down with his fellow JUNO Award winner. Luckily, it didn’t come to blows and Chris understood that Afie’s question was rooted in how much of a fan he was of Chris’s song writing, and that maybe perceptions of the banjo distracted from that. This was the moment that “She Told Me Where to Go'' was conceived.

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“I was a musician, a banjo player, known for my old-time Appalachian-based sound, and Afie thought that we should let go of the chains and expectations that come with writing songs around an instrument, and that I should just write the songs without the instrument in mind. He convinced me to abandon my signature sound, and I had this newfound sense of freedom in my song writing.”

She Told Me Where to Go is a journey through the darkness and light of mid-life. The songs wrestle, long form, with the value of an artist in a time when music is ingested in fifteen second increments. There’s hopefulness in “Guy Fieri” but “Holy Rain” and “Misfits in Old Clothes” capture the ongoing struggle.

LISTEN / SHARE “THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE” HERE

The album took time. With Jurvanen producing, they worked on the songs for almost two years and then spaced out the tracking and the vocals over 10 months. This is the longest gestation period ever for an Old Man Luedecke record. “I took a note from the world of theatre, rehearsing and tweaking the songs endlessly before they were ready for the stage, or in this case, the studio.”

It might have been easier to just quit the game, and stick to scallops, but being able to let go of the instrument that made him, brought new life to his songs and the album-making process.

And fans need not worry, the banjo is always close at hand. There’s a treasure trove of songs that have soundtracked the lives of many, that feature that signature sound. The absence of the banjo is not forever, just for now.

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SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE OUT TODAY VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR TOUR DATES IN CANADA, NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA

FEATURING LEAD SINGLE “FIVE AND TEN”, NEW RECORDINGS AND A COVER OF CAT POWER’S “THE GREATEST”

SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 14 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR TOUR DATES IN CANADA, NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAPRE–ORDER SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE

ON TOUR THROUGHOUT CANADA BEGINNING THIS WEEK - FULL DATES BELOW

OLD MAN LUEDECKE’S NEW LP, SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO, PRODUCED BY AFIE JURVANEN, OUT NOW VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR TOUR DATES IN CANADA, NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
PRE–ORDER SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO DELUXE

**OLD MAN LUEDECKE’S NEW LP, SHE TOLD ME WHERE TO GO, PRODUCED BY AFIE JURVANEN, OUT NOW VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC**