Alamo Jake Bugg

• 1 When The Night 02:48
• 2 Never Can Tell 02:57
• 3 Alamo 03:30
• 4 The Life 02:24
• 5 Trapped In A Cage 02:37
• 6 Ten Stories High 03:25
• 7 Tall Poppies 03:44
• 8 Drop In The Water 03:57
• 9 Cloud In The Sky 05:52
• 10 Day By Day 02:07
• 11 Everywhere I Go 04:50
• Total Runtime 38:11

Info for Alamo

Jake Bugg returns with his seventh album "Alamo".

Produced by multi-grammy winning duo of longtime friend and producer Jimmy Hogarth (Anohni, Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini) and Steve McKewan (Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Eminem), Alamo sees Jake return to his folk leaning roots – raw, real and unguarded. Now 32, the album is an 11 track testament to his matured craft as a songwriter and an open-hearted revelation of his journey as a man through love and loneliness and back again. It’s an album that rolls along with pure but lush and authentic country music arrangements that get straight to the heart of the matter with nothing to hide behind.

There’s a battle-born that runs through Alamo. The finger pickin’ good Dylan and Cohen-inspired rootsy roadsong of ‘Day By Day’ as Bugg offers that “I’d like to make a difference, I’d like to make some sense, but everything is closing in” – an ode to just waking up every day and trying to leave the world a better place than you found it, despite what it throws in your face. On the tender and yearning opener ‘When The Night’ Jake pines “I find myself wishing I was someone else,” asking the album’s core question, as Bugg puts it, of “what does isolation really feel like and lead you to do?” The album’s title-track sees Jake navigate the pains of being in a relationship that’s crumbling around you and the poignant ‘Cloud In The Sky’ is Jake at his most open, untangling ghosts from the past.

“After all the years of touring and making records, it just felt like the right time to look inward. The last couple of years have been tough for me and I’ve had a lot of struggles. I’m trying to navigate those and figure out where they stem from,” Jake says of the record. “‘Alamo’ was only going to work if I was going to be honest and be as vulnerable as possible. I’ve always had a lot of defenses and barriers around me. I thought it was time to bring those down.”

Jake Bugg, electric and acoustic guitar, vocals

Jake Bugg
Recorded in London, Los Angeles and Nottingham, highlights are many and include the moving ‘Love Hope And Misery’ driven by a huge chorus, the stomping ‘Bitter Salt’, the soulful ‘Never Wanna Dance’ and the defining title track.

For all its diversity, the heartbeat of ‘On My One’ is the blues. “Blues is my favourite genre,” Jake admits. “Whether it’s soul or hip hop, it all stems from the blues. To me the blues just means singing your emotions and expressing your pain so others can feel it. That’s the beauty of music. If nothing else, I’d like to think I’ve done that with this record.”

To make three albums by the age of 21 is no mean feat. To singlehandedly make ‘On My One’ shapeshifting effortlessly from blues to pop, rap to folk and soul to country through great songwriting is nothing short of remarkable. Enjoy the ride.

This album contains no booklet.