POWERHOUSE VOCALIST TAMI NEILSON
TO REISSUE LAUDED ALBUM CHICKABOOM! DELUXE
AS DIGITAL-ONLY VERSION INCLUDING LIVE TRACKS
RECORDED AT LEGENDARY ROUNDHEAD STUDIOS
Due out February 19, 2021 on all Digital Platforms
After a year of building momentum, including performances at Americanafest in Nashville in the fall of 2019, Folk Alliance in New Orleans, festivals throughout North America and Europe, and a confirmed slot at Willie Nelson’s famed Luck Reunion, Tami Neilson launched her new album CHICKABOOM! in February, 2020.
The collection received rave reviews from top-drawer publications such as MOJO, Rolling Stone and American Songwriter. No Depression ironically proclaimed, “Just call 2020 the Year of Tami!” In a matter of weeks, as COVID-19 took over and the world plunged into lockdown, Tami’s world tour was cancelled, and all that hard-earned momentum ground to a halt. Still hoping to make her NZ dates, she entered Neil Finn’s iconic Roundhead Studios to promote those shows and perform with her band (whom she hadn’t seen in four months) and the 12-piece Big Boss Orchestra for the very first time for Radio New Zealand’s LIVE Sessions national broadcast. These one-take, reimagined selections make up five new dramatic arrangements on CHICKABOOM! DELUXE.
Not long after the world went sideways, the creative whirlwind got busy with her team, which includes her brothers Jay and Todd, musical and video collaborators, respectively. The Tami Show, a 12-episode series on YouTube, was born as a welcome respite from quarantine life. Offering a glimpse into Tami’s life with funny anecdotes, fashion inspiration, hair and make-up tutorials, and THAT VOICE, the show, along with additional videos from CHICKABOOM! can be viewed on her You Tube channel here.
The single “Hey Bus Driver” from CHICKABOOM! won Country Song of the Year at the New Zealand Country Music Awards and the track “You Were Mine” was nominated for the APRA Silver Scroll for Song of the Year. CHICKABOOM! was also nominated for Album of the Year at the Aotearoa Music Awards (previously named Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards).
In preparation for Tami’s recent “Brass, Strings, Sing!” Tour, Radio New Zealand arranged for Tami, her band and a 12 piece orchestra, to rehearse and record some of the show at Roundhead Studios in Auckland.
These recordings will now be made available as part of “Chickaboom! - Deluxe” , on all digital platforms from February 19th 2021.
Presave it HERE on your favourite platform
CHICKABOOM DELUXE! Full track listing:
Call Your Mama
Hey, Bus Driver!
Ten Tonne Truck
Queenie, Queenie
You Were Mine
16 Miles Of Chain
Tell Me That You Love Me
Any Fool With A Heart
Sister Mavis
Sleep
New bonus tracks – Live at Roundhead Studios
A Woman’s Pain
Call Your Mama
Roimata (Cry Myself To Sleep) ft Troy Kingi
Walk (Back To Your Arms)
You Were Mine