⚡️ YOU BE THE LIGHTNING ⚡️
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⚡️ Cooking Vinyl Australia ⚡️
McNeil & The GoodLife are back on the road with a rescheduled Australian tour to launch their ARIA nominated new album, You Be the Lightning.
Combining McNeil’s Canadian roots with a shimmering indie Americana sound, the powerhouse outfit received critical praise around the country following their new release through Cooking Vinyl Australia – home to such luminary songwriters as Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin and John Prine.
With high radio rotation for singles Catch You and Not Like A Brother, You Be the Lighting was made Feature Album on Double J, PBS FM and 2SER and was followed by a coveted ARIA nomination for ‘Best Blues and Roots Album’. Capping off the run of accolades, they won ‘Best Country Album’ at the Music Victoria Awards and received a nomination for the prestigious Australian Music Prize.
In an unforgiving year, You Be the Lightning shone brightly, and the band can’t wait to finish what they started.
“It would be naïve of me to say that Tracy McNeil sounds like someone else because the truth is she’s a f*ucking force for nature, unique, a powerhouse, a slayer, a genius, a musician of the highest degree.” Nkechi Anele – Triple J
She has played sold-out shows across Australia, a recent national Canadian tour and played major festivals including Artwells (CAN), Ness Creek Music Festival (CAN), AmericanaFest (Sounds Australia Showcase) Nashville (USA), and Australian festivals Out On The Weekend, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Dashville Skyline, Bigsound and Australian Music Week.
Throughout her musical career, Tracy has supported international artists Dawes, Old Crow Medicine Show, Eilen Jewell, Mary Gauthier, Tony Joe White, Weddings Parties Anything and Australian Crawl legend James Reyne.
Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife features multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Dan Parsons on lead guitar, Tracy McNeil on rhythm guitar and lead vocals, Bree Hartley on drums, Craig Kelly on bass and Brendan McMahon on keys.
“…it should forever be considered an essential chapter of Australian alt-country and one of the first truly great records of 2020.” Dan Condon, Double J