Due for release on 21st March on Blang Records (and Don Giovanni in the US), Jeffrey Lewis has announced his new album, The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis, this great news is accompanied by his lead single and video, “Sometimes Life Hits You”, a song that proved so popular during his post-pandemic tour, that audiences spontaneously screamed along to the “Fuck, That Hurt!” choruses.
The album cover (see below) features Lewis nakedly re-staging that well known album cover The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan which was famously photographed one snowy February day in 1963. The original featured Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo walking along together in the snow, just around the corner from Dylan’s 4th Street apartment. 60 years later, lifelong 4th St resident Jeffrey Lewis had the idea to try to take the same chilly photo but with no pants on, to prove himself “even more” freewheelin’ than Bob! This plan was foiled by global warming, as New York City winters no longer offer snowy street photo ops, but at least Jeffrey tried.
Described in these pages as one of the most intelligent, funny and interesting American songwriters in any genre, we’ve never tired of of Lewis’ self-deprecating humour, which led Thomas Blake, when reviewing Manhattan, to describe him as having the wit of Woody Allen, the cracked delivery that mixes early Dylan with early Beck, and the narrative tricksiness of Paul Auster…
Nine years ago, Lewis gave a great video tour of his New York home, sharing his eclectic tastes in records and comics (he’s also a comic book artist) – if you enjoy old school comic books then keep an eye out for the “Easter eggs” in this video – “…are you enough of an expert on comic book history to identify some of the iconic panels that get humorously repurposed?”
UK/EU Dates – more to be announced:
24th April – Hamburg, Molotow
25th April,. – Aalbourg, Studenterhuset
26th April – Copenhagen, Huset
27th April – Stockholm, Hus 7
28th April – Malmo, Plan B
29th April – Berlin, Lark
30th April – Stuttgart, Merlin
3rd May – Arlon, Les Aralunaires
4th May – Utrecht, dB’s
5th May – Paris, Supersonic Records
6th May – Paris, Supersonic Records
7th May – London, The Dome
8th May – Leicester, The International
9th May – Cambridge, Storey’s Field
10th May – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
11th May – Glasgow, Room 2
12th May – Newcastle, Gosforth Civic Theatre
13th May – Sheffield, Yellow Arch Studios
14th May – Cardiff, The Gate
15th May – Bristol, Strange Brew
16th May – Margate, Where Else?
17th May – Brussels, Les Nuits Botanique
Website: https://thejeffreylewissite.com/