4 December, 2020Print
Nashville Singer/Songwriter Matt Urmy Shares New Single “Family” From Upcoming Album ‘South Of The Sky’ (Out Jan. 15)
Features Jonell Mosser On Vocals, Production By Truck Roley And Engineering By Brandon Bell (The Highwomen, Zac Brown Band, Dierks Bentley)
Today the East Nashville-based singer/songwriter Matt Urmy shares the optimistic new single “Family” from his forthcoming album ‘South of the Sky’ - out January 15, 2021. “Family” examines the importance of personal relationships, and how friends family and acts of intention take precedence over all else, and can help defy feelings of hopelessness in even the darkest of times. “The world’s going to give exactly what you pour,” he sings of the practice of intention. The song features the soulful addition of prolific Nashville vocalist Jonell Mosser who has sung background vocals for B.B. King, Etta James, Waylon Jennings, Patty Smythe and more.
LISTEN TO “FAMILY”: https://youtu.be/pRWp86XaDy8
Urmy’s upcoming concept album ‘South of the Sky’ attempts to explore and celebrate the multi- dimensionality of human life. Each song is filled with subtle references to the other tracks on the album, and each song on Side A has a mirror image, or sibling song on Side B. “Family” is perhaps the album’s most optimistic song as Urmy meditates on the album's lowest point. While Side A single “Helpless Fool” is a moment of self-introspection, “Family” examines the surface and how one's relationships and actions can inspire and ignite change.
Earlier album singles “Raging Hearts” and "Blind" landed on NPR Music's New Music Friday playlists. Urmy also recently released a powerful spoken word performance of the latter for WSMV’s TODAY In Nashville. Revisit the performance here: https://www.wsmv.com/today_in_nashville/matt-urmy-performs-blind/video_20a72d58-99e3-528d-a54a-f903da8470af.html
And watch the ‘South of the Sky’ album trailer here: https://youtu.be/HVKlDzPxAV4
More about Matt Urmy
Born in New York City and raised in Nashville, TN, Matt Urmy is a singer/songwriter, poet and entrepreneur. He founded Artist Growth, a cloud-based artist management & record label collaboration platform, which services both Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as well as artist managers at companies like Red Light Management, Vector Management, C3, Maverick, ROAR and many others. Urmy lives and works in Nashville with his partner Jaime - a pastry chef at popular East Nashville restaurant Lockeland Table - and their two boys, Ezra and Ocean. Matt’s debut album, 2017’s Out Of The Ashes, was a Rolling Stone favorite and compelled them to call Urmy, who dueted with the late John Prine on the album, an Artist To Watch.
More Info on Matt Urmy
https://www.instagram.com/matturmy
https://shorefire.com/roster/matt-urmy