Paul McClure Releases Double A-side this 3rd July...

Paul McClure Releases Double A-Side Single this 3rd July…

A) ‘I Love You In The Morning’

AA) ‘Shoe Song Blues’

Written by Paul McClure

Performed by Paul McClure & The Local Heroes.

As if we’d let something like a worldwide lockdown get in the way of us creating new music…

The Local Heroes have existed as something of a movable feast of session musicians and members of other bands – many from the Clubhouse Records family – for the past four or five years. Tristan and Danny Tipping (bass and electric guitar) have played more Local Heroes gigs than most but this is their first appearance on an official McClure recording. And about time too…

Joel and Rhiannon Payne (keys and vocals) both played on last year’s Market Town (Clubhouse Records 2019) and Mike Monaghan (Drums) makes his return since the Orange EP of 2017 which included the huge hit ‘Baby That’s You’ which was accompanied by a video starring actor James Sutton.

Joel has once again taken on producer duties following on from the fantastic job he did on ‘Market Town’.

Paul has spent lockdown home-schooling his two children – whom many of you will know from the songs written about them and the many anecdotes in his live shows – but still found time to write new songs, the first of which is ‘I Love You In The Morning’. Recorded remotely and mixed and mastered by Joel. 

‘Shoe Song Blues’ has been a regular in Paul’s live shows for the last year, played solo as a walking blues with guitar and harmonica as a kind of homage to the likes of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, but when it came to recording he wanted to raise the stakes a little and make it more like the old time bands round one microphone – only ‘lockdown’ style - with the parts mostly played by Paul recorded into his 8-track at home with bass (Tristan) and mandolin (Danny) added later. 

Both songs are available to preorder from Paul’s Bandcamp page now, and will be available in a ‘Pay what you will‘ capacity from 3rdJuly. 

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