JT & The Clouds

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One of the best shows from 2011 returns to The Maze! This will be a great show!

“Bittersweet tales of loss and longing: haunting melodies and sharpe lyrics. How is it that a band as good as JT and The Clouds, with four brilliant albums, is hardly known in Britain?” JT and the Clouds will suit fans of The Band, ‘The Basement Tapes,’ Memphis Soul and Willie Nelson.” Word Magazine – UK
Now a firm favourite of the Maze and Cosmic American we are pleased to have JT back once more and this time with his amazing band The Clouds. Many of you know JT through his relationship with Po’Girl and the Be Good Tanyas, both of whom he’s written songs for and toured with. Now he and a 3 piece version of his band, the Clouds, are touring here in their own right and no-one deserves the spotlight more. JT has been described as having the best white soul voice to come out of America in a generation and now he’s here to ‘absolutely explode your mind and spirit and then rebuild them with love and gentle care.’

JT and the Clouds come from Chicago; their music is Chicago music - rough edged, sad, hopeful, and shot through with soul. The music is alive to the ever-shifting tides of modern indie music, but remains steeped in the city's fine traditions of soul, rhythm and blues. They resist the urge to pigeonhole themselves in a genre, or be easily pigeonholed. Most of the people that inspire them are similarly hard to pin down. It's these ghosts of the past and future, awake in their music and words, that have pushed critics so far a field in reaching for name-checks to compare them to -- Sam Cooke, the Band, the Velvet Underground, Prince, Curtis Mayfield... and more recently, Bon Iver, M. Ward, Jeff Buckley ....

The Clouds, led by Jeremy "JT" Lindsay, have been putting out records and touring since 2004. Until recently, they got a bit more notoriety in far-off ports then their own backyard. Having received glowing reviews and several ‘best of 2011’ top ten listings, JT & The Clouds most recent record Caledonia genuinely deserves every word of praise. Caledonia grooves, and rocks a bit harder than previous outings but finally captures how it should be when he is out grooving with the Clouds. JT's words may still ask you to sort through the same minefield of heartbreak and lonely hunger, but the Clouds have determined that you should at least be able to dance while you’re doing it, actually it’s also brilliant.

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