See Sundy Best’s Nicholas Jamerson’s Funky New ‘Veteran’s Day’
As one half of rootsy duo Sundy Best, Nicholas Jamerson helped carry a novel model of Kentucky roots music to audiences from California to Canada. The band simply launched the brand new album Almar Sky on December 16th, however each Jamerson and Sundy Best’s percussionist Kristofer Bentley are additionally exploring solo initiatives.
Bentley launched the soulful Love Revival series on Christmas Day, whereas Jamerson minimize the Star City Sessions, a set of songs impressed largely by his household. On tracks just like the bouncy “Cracked” and “Desperado”-evoking “Guns A Blazin’,” Jamerson refines the back-porch aesthetic of Sundy Best. A brand new tune not included on the EP, nevertheless, finds the singer exploring nation funk. Recorded stay within the studio in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, the slinking “Veteran’s Day” appears like Jamerson’s tackle Willie Nelson’s “Shotgun Willie.”
“With the Star City Sessions, I carry artists to Prestonsburg and we report some music stay, no headphones, no click on. We simply play and seize what we get,” Jamersons tells Rolling Stone Country. “This tune particularly I wrote about my nice grandfather, who was a federal inspector. He additionally labored at a jail instructing prisoners carpentry previous to their being launched again into the world.” (Watch the video above.)
