“You never really know when you’ve made it. There’s never one moment,” says I Draw Slow front woman Louise Holden, after the band’s recent signing to a top Nashville record label.
“It’s always like, ‘oh if we get to do that, then we’ve made it!’ and then you do it, but it’s just another step and then there’s another step,” she told Róisín Ingle on the latest Róisín Meets podcast.
The Dublin five-piece have been on tour in the US 15 times in the last four years and earlier this year were signed to Compass Records on Nashville’s iconic Music Row, through which they released their fourth album ‘Turn Your Face to the Sun’ last May.
Holden’s brother Dave plays guitar and sings harmonies to her lead vocals on their folk songs, which often get mislabelled as bluegrass, but they are trying not to get too annoyed by that anymore.
The Holdens were just home from the US to launch their new album at Whelan’s in Dublin the night before they came into The Irish Times’ studio and were preparing to head back out on another jaunt soon after.
In this podcast you will hear them perform three songs off the new album: Carolina, Honeymoon and Garage Flowers.
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Turn Your Face to the Sun, by I Draw Slow, is out now.
