Shout Sister Shout Ghalia Volt
Album info
Album-Release:
2023
HRA-Release:
06.10.2023
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1Every Cloud03:32
- 2Changes04:43
- 3Can't Afford To Die04:07
- 4Insomnia04:31
- 5Shout Sister Shout04:33
- 6No Happy Home03:54
- 7She's Holdin' You Back03:48
- 8Can't Have It All04:14
- 9Hell Is Not Gonna Deal With You04:20
- 10Hop On A Ride03:17
- 11Dog Ya Around04:06
- 12Po' Boy John03:04
Info for Shout Sister Shout
Joshua Tree, California. A place where rock ‘n’ roll mythology is made, for better and worse. It was under these same burnished skies that Gram Parsons’ stolen body was set ablaze. Where U2 announced their bid for global infamy. And as Ghalia Volt reminds us, exactly thirty years ago, it was here that near-mythical producer and Queens Of The Stone Age conspirator David Catching founded the fabled Rancho De La Luna studio that would bring a stream of dust-blown musicians to his door like moths to a candle.
“Going to the desert to record Shout Sister Shout! with David Catching was something unique,” says the acclaimed Belgian singer-songwriter of her latest album that adds its own thumbprint to the Rancho De La Luna legend. “I have so many memories. Being on top of the hills facing the Joshua Tree Park. The stars, the moon, the coyote howls, the old vintage car that sat in front of the studio. And then, the history of Rancho De La Luna and all the rock 'n' roll neighbours. You just never know who's gonna push the door…”
Driving deep into the desert put a few more miles on the clock of a young nomad who has made the world her home. Six years have passed since Volt quit the busking circuit of her native Brussels for the heady throb of New Orleans, where she made her first ripples as the livewire frontwoman of local heroes Mama’s Boys. That hook-up led to Volt’s acclaimed debut album Let The Demons Out (declared “an irresistible force” by Classic Rock) and to Volt’s next stepping stone, to the hill country of Coldwater, Mississippi, for sessions with the Southern state’s Cody Dickinson, Watermelon Slim and Cedric Burnside on 2019’s Mississippi Blend. That album saw Volt dubbed “a natural-born star” by Henry Yates (NME, Classic Rock, The Guardian) and broke into the Billboard Blues Chart Top 3 on three separate occasions.
Even Covid couldn’t clip her wings, with the fierce multi-instrumentalist writing songs for her One Woman Band project on a month-long Amtrak train journey that carved across America, before loading up her van for solo shows. “I surfed the waves,” she reflects. “If it was bad in Europe, I’d tour in the States. If it was bad in the South, I’d go to the northern Midwest. One Woman Band opened lots of doors, let me play the biggest stages yet. But Shout Sister Shout! is my best material so far.”
“Every Cloud” kicks off like a road movie soundtrack, its jutting lick and battle cry vocal interrupted by a woozy organ freakout worthy of The Doors’ Ray Manzarek. “Can’t Afford To Die” pairs its propulsive rockabilly rattle with a sobering lyric. “Insomnia” is a trip, its slow-burn psychedelia swirling from the speakers. The seething “Hell Is Not Gonna Deal With You” finds Volt spitting venom onto the mic and studio drummer Danny Frankel practically battering holes in his kit, while “Po’ Boy John” is a cathouse rave-up, Volt imagining the backstory of an old guitar.
With its addictive beat and ghostly alt-gospel vocals, title track “Shout Sister Shout!” demands to be heard. “It’s a song encouraging women to speak loud for what they deserve,” she says. “Fight back, stare back, scream back.”
Ghalia Volt has done exactly that, returning from the wilderness with the album of her career and the songs that will ignite venues across the globe. “Right now,” she says, “I’m ready to jump back into a band, play these new songs live and run all around the stage…”
Ghalia Volt, guitar, vocals
Danny Frankel, drums, percussion
Ben Alleman, keyboards, piano
Special Guest:
David Catching, guitar
Ghalia Volt
One-Woman-Band Show: Ghalia Volt is returning back from New Orleans to introduce to Europe her new One-Woman-Band Show in support of her upcoming “solo” album on Ruf Records for January 2021 . Ghalia’s previous release “Mississippi Blend” made a powerful critical and commercial debut entering the Billboard Blues Charts top 3 position three times over the course of several months.
In 2014, the Belgian natural-born rockstar heard the siren song of the American South thereby leading her to many of the American musical Meccas, from Chicago to New Orleans and all points between. She especially made a name for herself in Mississippi becoming a regular at the annual Juke Joint Festival of Clarksdale as well as other popular Blues festivals of the region. Ghalia ultimately settled down in New Orleans as her place of residence and inspiration.
If you have yet to enjoy the great fortune of a Ghalia Volt performance, do come and witness her new One-Woman-Band Show. Deeply Influenced by the Delta and Hill Country Blues, she crafts an innovative fusion that strikes a balance between traditional and progressive Blues.
Not only will she cordially escort you through the captivating tales of her original compositions and lyrics, but she’ll seduce you with her electrifying voice and slide guitar work, while…drumming the beat with her two feet.