The much-loved Australian indie roots artist Jordie Lane, who recently moved from Melbourne to LA to Nashville, is set to release his new album GLASSELLLAND on September 7, 2018 which combines the desert Tropicalia influences of his homeland with the modern Southwestern folk of his new home.
Taken from Glassellland, listen to Frederick Steele McNeil Ferguson below on which Lane shared the following:
“Frederick Steele McNeil Ferguson was my grandfather on my dad’s side.
“He died long before I was born and I knew little about him until one night I was back in Australia having dinner with my folks and my dad talked more about what he went through.
“As a 16-year-old he lied about his age so he could fight in world war one. I myself struggled to connect with what it would have been like way back then (when the prospect of war for a young man at that time was filled with excitement and adventure). I began to think about the idea of past trauma being passed on through the generations. I guess, in an attempt to understand what he went through.”
https://soundcloud.com/jordielane/09-frederick-steele-mcneil/s-WTmt5?in=jordielane/sets/glassellland/s-BXL8Q
From a melding of genres, influences, and backgrounds, GLASSELLLAND is the product of an outsider immersing himself in unfamiliar territory, and loving every moment of it. Jordie Lane has created a record steeped in mystery, but the kind that happily divulges its secret after a few listens. “That’s what this record’s really about,” says Jordie. “Tying reality and fantasy together.”