Israel Nash

In the final moments of Ozarker, on which he pays homage to his Ozark roots in small-town Missouri, some of the songs drawing on his family history, Israel Nash sings, “I didn’t strike the match but I let it burn”. This album positively blazes.

Recorded over the course of a year in his Texas studio, Israel Nash’s ‘Topaz’ is a captivating album that runs the gamut from the personal to the political, the urgent to the dreamily laid back.

Described as a modern-day hippie-spiritual, the latest offering from Israel Nash is expansive and intimate, personal and universal, spawned of despair but fuelled by hope, it flies on a  higher plane. Book a seat.

Texas’ genre-bending rock ‘n’ roller Israel Nash announces his fifth studio album ‘Lifted’, a modern-day hippie-spiritual, which finds Nash continuing his tradition of creating a sonic landscape that is at once both vast and intimate – soaring and untamed at times, placid and sincerely personal at others. Listen to lead single Rolling On.

For her fourth album, Dripping Springs, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. There she teamed up with Israel Nash at his Plum Creek Sound studio and a stellar crew of musicians. Listen to the results here.

It’s true that Silver Season will partially reward those old hippies waiting for David Crosby to repeat his 70’s triumphs but Israel Nash has hit a lodestone that should satisfy anyone who likes their music somewhat blissed out and cosmic. Forget the acid, a few craft beers and a good listen will suffice.

Following his critically acclaimed 2013 album Rain Plans, Israel Nash has announced the release of his new album Silver Season from which you can hear the lead track Strangers here.

Israel Nash has announced a string of UK and European tour dates and also reveals a new live video for ‘Who In Time’. Watch it here.

We’ve a special track première today from Israel Nash that never made it to his album Rain Plans plus details of upcoming UK & European Tour dates.

In our final part of the Best Albums of 2013 we include the full list of all 92 Albums we chose along with the final few including: The Gentle Good, Blowzabella, RM Hubbert, Kathryn Williams & more.

Simon heads to The Slaughtered Lamb to catch Israel Nash Gripka and gets blown away! He declares at the end of the night “This is the gig I’ve waited more than 40 years for!”

Israel Nash Gripka’s latest release ‘Rain Plans’ is music that knows no bounds, rich and complex and just a little mysterious. But the pleasure of a mystery is surely to unravel its secrets…