Nancy K. Dillon
Seattle - Washington - United States
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Nancy K Dillon | American Songs & Stories: Echoes From the Future Meet Ghosts From the Past
Nancy K. Dillon is an award-winning American songwriter/performer possessing an extraordinarily warm and expressive voice, unique in its ability to reveal both strength and vulnerability. With a finely focused musical ear, Dillon mines a vein of avant garde Americana in her compelling tales of mythopoetic darkness and light melding past and future. She has released two solo studio albums and her live project, a 6-song EP (Live at The Royal Room) dropped on September 16, 2017. A brand new Christmas single "In the Bleak Midwinter" was just released on Rose Rock Records December 2017. Her third full-length studio album (A Game of Swans) is due out in January 2018. Official release date for "A Game of Swans" is January 20, 2018 with pre-sales beginning December 26, 2017.
NEW: CD Release Show Announced: March 4th 2018 at Tractor Tavern. Tickets available January 4, 2018 at ticketweb.com.
January 20, 2018 is "Official Release Date" for "A Game of Swans" by Nancy K. Dillon. Order your copy from iTunes, CD Baby, BandCamp or Amazon today! Do you Spotify? Check out Nancy's Spotify Artist Page and "Follow" - see button below.
On her newest recording, "A Game of Swans," Dillon hearkens back to her ancestral roots in Ireland, Scotland and England. Like her forebears, her gaze is firmly forward as she listens to dreams, makes plans and watches for signs leading into a new future. The 12 tracks on "A Game of Swans" reveal haunting strains of Celtic folk culture migrated to America, strains that have always flowed just beneath the surface of Dillon's music.
"A Game of Swans" contains 10 originals and collaborations as well as Nancy's version of songs by Drew Nelson/Janni Littlepage and Pat Long. The stories related on "A Game of Swans" draw characters from lost gold mines, haunted pioneer cabins, railroad hobos and immigrants' prayers for Civil War last chances. Simpatico musical support from uber-talented friends in America, Britain and Scotland color this new project with the perfect tones.
Inspired by the varied migratory paths taken by both her Georgia Loyalist and Scots-Irish Presbyterian forebears as they aimed towards better futures, Dillon herself took flight from her beloved home state of Oklahoma into the vast American West. Settling in the verdant beauty of the Pacific Northwest allows for road trips that still the mind and feed the imagination.
As a patchwork quilt holds pastel memories of summer dreams and dresses, Dillon's song-catcher sensibilities capture ephemera of the American story. Have a listen....hearken back....and lean forward.
Discography
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A Game of Swans
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Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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1 | Dutchman's Gold | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
2 | St. Jude | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
3 | Annabelle | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
4 | A Game of Swans | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
5 | Fire in the Hole | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
6 | 1-2-3 | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
7 | Ice & Bone | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
8 | White Dove | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
9 | Write Me a Letter | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
10 | Turn the Lights Down Low | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
11 | Poor Man's Lullaby | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
12 | White Dove (Reprise) [Instrumental] | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
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Roses Guide to Time Travel
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Label: Rose Rock
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Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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1 | All the Pretty America | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
2 | Last Town on the Line | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
3 | Desert Song | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
4 | Looks Like Rain | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
5 | The Ground She Walks on | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
6 | New Train | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
7 | No Goodbyes | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
8 | Good Old Friends | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
9 | Portland | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
10 | Glory Days | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
11 | Sweet Honey | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
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Just Let Me Dream
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Label: Rose Rock
Songs on the Album
Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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1 | Crossing 66 | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
2 | Just Let Me Dream | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
3 | Almost to Idaho | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
4 | Nothing in Texas | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
5 | Play 1-4 Susie | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
6 | O Susanna | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
7 | Ballad of Mabel Dodge | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
8 | Fire & Soul | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
9 | Tired Heart | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
10 | Antioch/Sacred Harp #277 | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
11 | Revelation | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
12 | Till the Music Dies | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
13 | Give Your Sweet Love to Me | Contemporary Folk | Folk |