Willy Vlautin

We chatted with American author, musician, and songwriter Willy Vlautin about The Delines’ new album, Mr Luck and Ms Doom. We also talk about his songwriting process, novel writing, and his fondness for Italian movie soundtracks from the 1960s and 1970s.

Mr Luck and Ms Doom, the fifth album by Portland-based country-soul band The Delines, demonstrates a mastery of big lounge ballads and further proves why Willy Vlautin is rightly considered one of America’s greatest songwriters and novelists.

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.

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.