NYC-based Americana singer-songwriter Riley Etheridge Jr.
will be releasing his next album, The Arrogance Of Youth, on
September 18, 2012, via Rock Ridge Music (with distribution through ADA).
The album features a broad palette of authentic and finely crafted
Americana—late-night blues, hard-luck folk, buoyant Bayou soul, barn-burning
country. Etheridge’s third album eloquently and emotionally looks deeply
into the highly relatable quandary of “if I knew then what I know now.”
Says Etheridge of the album: “The arrogance of youth
is a thread that winds itself through each of the songs. It’s about how,
as we mature, perspectives in our lives change in surprising ways. A lot of
things I knew for sure when I was 19 turned out to not be the case.”
On The Arrogance Of Youth, Etheridge
surrounds himself with some of the finest musicians of New Orleans and
Nashville (including a guest spot by longtime Willie Nelson harmonica player
Mickey Raphael on “Whole New Side Of Me”). Etheridge tracked the album in
both cities, lending a bi-locale aesthetic. Longtime producer and
creative partner Wendell Tilley was on board for this album, furthering the
duo’s vision of creating a unique Music City-country-meets-Crescent City-groove
sensibility to accompany Etheridge’s deeply confessional storytelling
lyrics.
Etheridge was born in South Carolina but spent 20 creatively
transformative years in Louisiana, soaking up the region’s unique and rich
musical heritage. MusicFog.com succinctly says: “Riley lives
in New York now, but you can still track the south in his music.” Etheridge has
been favorably compared to Radney Foster, Billy Joe Shaver, and Uncle Tupelo,
among others. His moving lyrics are often singled out in reviews. Innocent
Words praised his writing, saying, “Nothing grabs your attention more
than Etheridge’s clever word play and finesse with the language of love, lust,
and loss.” The bible of hip, modern Americana, No Depression, named
him an artist to watch. Over the years, Etheridge has shared stages
with a broad array of respected artists such as Ricky Skaggs, Sister Hazel,
Tony Lucca, and Matt Duke, among many others.
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