Courtney Marie Andrews

Dahlia

Presented by: Blue Music

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0	DURHAM: Old Cinema Lauderette
P	Sunday 26th February, 2017
N	3:00pm

Event information

Perhaps currently best known for being Damien Jurado's lead guitarist, Courtney Marie Andrews has been on the road since she was 16 years old, when she left home in Arizona for her first tour. She travelled up and down the West Coast, busking and playing any bars or cafés that would have her. Soon after she took a Greyhound bus four nights straight from Phoenix to New York to do the same on the East Coast. For a decade or so since, Courtney's been a session and backup singer and guitarist for nearly 40 artists but has never stopped writing her own material. Picking up admirers like Damien Jurado and Ryan Adams along the way, she has quietly earned a reputation as a songwriter's songwriter.

A single titled "How Quickly Your Heart Mends" was released 26th August 2016. Courtney explains how the lyrics of "How Quickly Your Heart Mends" are based upon a lady she met whilst working at a small town bar:

"During my bartending shifts I had met this woman many times. She is beautiful, but still somehow she searches for love that is a faded red, white and blue. In some ways she is strong for enduring so much heartbreak. In other ways she is naive for believing that love can save her and that it's hers to own. I've always been drawn to the flaws in my characters because that is what makes them more relatable and more human."

As the song goes "The jukebox is playin' a sad country song / For all the ugly Americans / Now I feel like one of them / Dancin' alone and broken by the freedom".

It's really no wonder Ryan Adams called Courtney Marie Andrews "a phenomenal songwriter".

Courtney Marie Andrew's forthcoming album "Honest Life" is out 20th January on Loose Records and available to pre-order now on 180g turquoise vinyl, CD & download.

We're delighted to feature Courtney at the newly refurbished Old Cinema Launderette with increased capacity but still all of the old charm and quirkiness it's become renowned for.

It's a special matinee show with doors at 3pm and an anticipated finish time of 530pm.

Support comes from harmonious three-piece female group Dahlia.

This is a joint NE:MM and Old Cinema Launderette promotion.

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