Sunday, May 15, 2011

Out This Week: Ben Sollee / Inclusions

I think Ben Sollee is one of the sweetest, smartest, and most aware individuals in music.  His new album, Inclusions was just released this week and is definitely worth listening (and buying). Click on the album cover below to buy from Insound.  An article from No Depression and his new video are below.

Inclusions art

HEARING EVERYONE'S STORY: Ben Sollee's stunning new album INCLUSIONS builds community

Ben Sollee believes that community is all about inclusion. And music is about inclusions. So it’s no wonder his new album bears that title.

INCLUSIONS, Sollee's second solo record, released May 10 by Thirty Tigers, is a sort of folk-urban stroll through all that is being gained—and lost—in modern society. "From an arts standpoint, there’s more mixing, melding collaboration than ever before,” Sollee says. “The idea behind the album is that some of them are intentional, some are incidental but they happen and they help define who we are now."

Sollee is the epitome of those different influences. His grandfather was a fiddler from the lush, dark heart of Appalachia and Sollee grew up hearing his father playing R&B on the guitar. He also grew up hearing of his family's heritage in the hills while he experienced a whole different way of life in the maintained urban landscape of Lexington, Kentucky, a sprawling metropolitan area struggling to become a big city.

(Continued... HEARING EVERYONE'S STORY: Ben Sollee's stunning new album INCLUSIONS builds community - Americana and roots music - No Depression)

He's also touring right now. Not in Cleveland, but he'll be in Pittsburgh on 5/18 and Detroit on 5/19.

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