JACKIE GREENE MAKES YEP ROC RECORDS LABEL DEBUT WITH BACK TO BIRTH

FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS OUT AUGUST 21, 2015

“TRUST SOMEBODY” PREMIERES AT WSJ’S SPEAKEASY

“BACK TO BIRTH” TOUR CONTINUES THROUGH 2015 WITH NEW DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED

Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Jackie Greene, who has been hailed by The New York Times as “the Prince of Americana” and by All Music as “prodigiously gifted,” will make his Yep Roc Records label debut with the release his first studio album in five years, Back To Birth, August 21, 2015. The album is available for pre-order with an instant download of “Trust Somebody,” which premiered at Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy.

Recorded at Portland’s Supernatural Sound and produced by Los Lobos member Steve Berlin, the 11-song set features Paul Rigby (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar); Damian Erskine (bass); Reinhardt Melz (drums); Jason Crosby (violin, string arrangements) with Greene stretching out on a number of instruments including guitar, piano, organ and drums.

“Musically, this record is kind of a return to the simplicity that I started with, although I feel like I have a much better idea of what I’m doing now,” Greene observes. “I think the lyrics are the part that’s really evolved. A lot of these songs are looking at the notion of a cyclical existence, and the sense that life goes in a circle.”

Back To Birth is Greene’s seventh studio album following his self-produced, self-released debut Rusty Nails (2000), Gone Wanderin’ (2002), Sweet Somewhere Bound (2005), American Myth (2006), Giving Up The Ghost (2008) and Till the Light Comes (2010).

Greene will be introducing songs from the new album on his “Back To Birth” tour, which will continue with acoustic and full band performances throughout 2015. Summer music festivals with his band Trigger Hippy, which Jackie co-fronts with Joan Osborne, are also planned.