Ray LaMontagne announces new album Long Way Home

Grammy award winning singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne has announced the release of his new studio album Long Way Home, out August 16.

Ahead of the album, LaMontagne will unveil the lead single ‘Step Into Your Power’ on June 5, accompanied by a video created with his son Tobias.

Produced with Seth Kauffman (Angel Olsen, Lana Del Ray), the nine-track folk rock album was recorded over the course of a few weeks in LaMontagne’s home studio.

The first three tracks of Long Way Home include backing vocals from The Secret Sisters, while the album was engineered and mixed by LaMontagne, Kauffman and Ariel Bernstein.

Ray’s new album, Long Way Home, is coming this August! His first single, “Step Into Your Power” will be yours next Wednesday, June 5th. Pre-save the song now and stay tuned next week for more information on how to pre-order Long Way Home.
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The central theme of the record is the singer’s youth, and his days as a 21 years old sitting in a small club in Minneapolis, watching a Townes Van Zandt performance.

LaMontagne reflects: “Thirty years later it occurs to me that every song on Long Way Home is in one way or another honouring the journey. The languorous days of youth and innocence.

“The countless battles of adulthood, some won, more often lost. It's been a long hard road, and I wouldn’t change a minute. It took me nine songs to express what Townes managed to say in one line. I guess I still got a lot to learn.”

LaMontagne has released eight studio albums since his 2004 debut, Trouble, which is certified RIAA Platinum. 2006’s Till the Sun Turns Black and 2008’s Gossip in the Grain saw RIAA Gold certifications. He received two Grammy nominations and won the award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for God Willin’ and The Creek Don’t Rise.

Long Way Home’s lead single, 'Step Into Your Power', can be pre-saved here.

Find the album’s full tracklist below:

1. Step Into Your Power
2. I Wouldn’t Change A Thing
3. Yearning
4. And They Called Her California
5. La De Dum, La De Da
6. My Lady Fair
7. The Way Things Are
8. So, Damned, Blue
9. Long Way Home