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13 March, 2026Print
Foy Vance’s The Wake Out Now, The Seventh Album In A Grief-Shaped Creative Resurgence
Will play shows today in Nashville at Vinyl Tap and Grand Ole Opry, and will continue with album release shows in NYC and LA next week
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Today (3.13), Emmy-award winning singer-songwriter Foy Vance shares his new album The Wake via Rounder Records. The journey to the album began in 1999, when the Northern Ireland-born musician lost his father, a traveling preacher who moved their family to the American South when Vance was little. That immense grief sparked a clarifying sense of purpose -- he committed to making seven albums, each one shaped by the impact of that loss.
He has carried one of his father’s favorite sayings -- “Give me the boy until he is 7, and I will show you the man” -- like a compass ever since. Now 26 years later, Vance -- who won an Emmy Award for his work on Ted Lasso -- is arriving at the end of that long-imagined arc with that seventh album, The Wake.
Produced by Ethan Johns (the Brit Award–winning producer known for his work with Paul McCartney, Ray LaMontagne, and more), the 13-track album brings Vance’s gritty vocal work to a potent convergence of folk, soul, and Southern blues, instilling every moment with unbridled vitality. At turns devastating, ecstatic, and wildly illuminating, The Wake carries a title that reflects both sorrow and the promise of healing, and reveals an artist highly attuned to the task of preserving the human spirit in an often-unforgiving world.
In its intimate exploration of the human condition, The Wake brings both introspective candor and canny observation across a breadth of topics, from his groovy meditation on the slippery essence of time with “I Ain’t Sold On Time” to his nine-minute outcry on AI’s ascent, “A.I.”
Vance -- a songwriter, painter, and filmmaker -- poured his relentless creativity into a series of visual works to accompany the album and each of the tracks, transforming the project into a testament to artistic expression. He illustrated the album cover and the album's visualizers, plus created "Homemade Films" for each of the lead tracks -- watch the just-released video for “We Almost Made it” and watch them all here.
To celebrate the release, Vance kicked off his series of sold-out, intimate album release shows and special record store performances with shows in the UK and Ireland, plus played a sold-out show in Nashville’s The Blue Room last night. He’ll play Nashville’s Vinyl Tap and Grand Ole Opry today (3.13) and continue with shows in NYC and LA next week.
Additionally, Vance recently announced his 60-date The Wake World Tour, which will start in Europe and the UK in September and will continue through the US, including Los Angeles (two nights), Denver, Nashville, Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York City. See the full dates below and get your tickets here: foyvance.com/tour/
Across the decades, Vance has built a body of work where emotional immediacy meets sweeping, soulful sound — stories told with a fearlessness and fragile humanity that feel hand-carved from his own life. The Wake is the final volume in a run of albums that began with his 2007 debut Hope, and also includes standouts like 2016’s The Wild Swan (executive-produced by Sir Elton John), 2019’s From Muscle Shoals (recorded at the historic FAME Studios), and To Memphis, and 2021’s Signs of Life. All have shaped his singular blend of Americana, folk, and soul, drawing praise from Rolling Stone, NPR, and Billboard, and earning admiration from artists including Ed Sheeran, Bonnie Raitt, Kacey Musgraves, and Sir Elton John.
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