Richmond fontaine

Willy Vlautin and his cult Portland outfit have shared a live take of ‘Night In The City’ ahead of their farewell string of UK dates, culminating at London Electric Ballroom on October 21.

The highly revered alt-country Portland outfit ‘Richmond Fontaine’ is back with more hard luck stories – it will, however, be their swansong providing ‘an end piece for all the characters who inhabited the world of Richmond Fontaine over the years.’

This weeks Ark is full of goodness from Warren Zevon, Richmond Fontaine, Charlie Parr and Grand Drive. We delve back to ’58 with The Louvin Brothers, ’77 with Wire, and an ’80s classic from John Cougar!

Richmond Fontaine’s frontman, Willy Vlautin, has already established his credible talents as a songwriter and novelist. It therefore seems inevitable that the two creative ends would eventually intertwine. The High Country, does just that by becoming a song-novel.

Well, there’s always a first for everything and this is your first audio story on offer from FRUK. A Motorcycle for a Horse is a new short story from critically acclaimed author and Richmond Fontaine frontman Willy Vlautin who has been described by the independent as mining a lost seam of American writing.