Jeff Plankenhorn is pleased to announce the release of his new single "Alone at Sea", the title track off of his 4th album, due September 29th via Blue Corn Music..The single and lyric video for "Alone at Sea" has been premiered by Americana Highways, and the record can pre-saved here. Lastly, new tour dates have been announced. (Scroll down for dates.)
Plankenhorn's songwriting, expressive vocals, and musicianship are front and center on Alone At Sea produced by Colin Linden (Bruce Cockburn, Keb Mo). Lyrically that exploration manifests in songs such as the title track, which poured out of Plankenhorn, aka Plank, so fast, he had to be convinced not to tamper with it. "Alone At Sea" is nestled between two of the album's many up-tempo tunes and envisions an adventurous soul who's searching for self-awareness and learns to appreciate solitude — as Plank has since moved to Canada's Vancouver Island freed him from his previously landlocked Austin, Texas existence. Plankenhorn explains that the song “Alone At Sea” is almost a stream of consciousness, a song I wrote combining the search for self-awareness and love for adventure. To find yourself alone but to be OK. But who will you leave behind?"
Born and raised in the midwest, Plank's musical travels began when his older brother gave Jeff his first guitar at age ten. Fast forward to his dropping out of college because his three bands (a bluegrass group, a hip-hop collective, and a 12-piece funk outfit) were doing so well. His musical journey led to Memphis and a chance meeting with Texas singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard – as well as to Plank's 20-year sojourn in the Lone Star state. The slide guitarists’ next level talent opened many doors leading Jeff to perform with the likes of of Hubbard and Joe Ely, Ruthie Foster, Bob Schneider, the late Jimmy LaFave, and others. In 2016, he officially launched a new chapter as a solo artist with the release of SoulSlide.
"His first solo album, 2003's Plank, included contributions by British-born Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer, the late Faces/Small Faces/Rolling Stones keyboardist Ian "Mac" McLagan — Jeff paid tribute to Mac on the Alone At Sea blues-rocker "Juggling Sand." Jeff paid tribute on the Alone At Sea song, blues-rocker "Juggling Sand." "I hope that someday I learn to play piano like him," says the too-modest Plank, whose luscious licks always get audiences moving when he reunites with his Purgatory Players’ partner, Scrappy Jud Newcomb. In fact, Newcomb shares writing credits on two songs: “Flat Tire,” a horns-of-a-dilemma, get-me-out-of-this-jam tale, and “Maybe It’s Not Too Late.” A favorite at the Purgatory Players’ weekly fundraising “pseudo-gospelish brunches,” the uptempo tune, full of tasty slide guitar and horn work, is a nod to Plank’s love of the sacred steel tradition born in African-American Pentecostal churches.
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