[Cover photo credit to Kenneth Locke]
Canadian singer/songwriter Emily Triggs has released her new album The Great Escape. Several of the songs on The Great Escape explore different aspects of North American culture.
Emily Triggs titled her new album The Great Escape partly because it “represents a break from old ways of thinking.” With her new material, Triggs set out to challenge herself by “ignoring any genre restrictions.”
The Great Escape was produced by longtime Neko Case collaborator Paul Rigby, who also played a multitude of instruments on the album. Other contributors to the sessions in Vancouver were engineer/multi-instrumentalist Dave Carswell (Destroyer, The Evaporators), bassist Darren Paris (Frazey Ford), drummer Geoff Hicks (Colin James) and engineer Erik Nielsen (City and Colour).
By coincidence, one of the studios where they recorded, Afterlife, was near where Triggs’ father Stanley recorded traditional folk songs on a houseboat in the early 1960s, which have since been released as a 3-disc set entitled The False Creek Tapes.
Emily Triggs says:
My last album Middletown was about resilience, but sometimes you don’t need to be resilient, you need to change. You don’t have to leave a place, it can be metaphoric; you just have to leave a past version of yourself behind.
The Great Escape is Triggs’ third solo release since 2014. She played in various bands up to 2019 and continues to perform as a duo with Lorrie Matheson called The Rosellas. Going solo helped Triggs reconnect with the Folk music passed down from her parents, and immerse herself in the sounds of Appalachia in West Virginia.
EMILY TRIGGS LIVE:
April 12 (Fri) :: Peace River AB :: Peace River Brewing
April 13 (Sat) :: Valleyview AB :: House Concert
April 14 (Sun) :: Grand Prairie AB :: Grand Prairie Live Theatre
April 24 (Wed) :: Calgary AB :: Pro Arts Society
May 4 (Sat) :: Nanton AB :: Mosquito Creek Music
June 8 (Sat) :: Longview AB :: Good Gal Vintage
June 24 (Mon) :: Toronto ON :: The Local
June 30 (Sun) :: Mansonville QC :: Sundays In The Park
July 1 (Mon) :: Hemmingford QC :: Canada Day Celebration
July 12 (Fri) :: Hemmingford QC :: Friday Night Coffee House
Aug 3 (Sat) :: Camrose AB :: Big Valley Jamboree
Aug 25 (Sun) :: Nelson BC :: House Concert
Aug 28 (Wed) :: Vancouver BC :: WISE Hall Lounge
Aug 30 (Fri) :: Roberts Creek BC :: Roberts Creek Legion
Aug 31 (Sat) :: Powell River BC :: Sunshine Music Festival
Sept 1 (Sun) :: Victoria BC :: Victoria Folk Club
Sept 4 (Wed) :: Vancouver BC :: WISE Hall Lounge
Nov 22 (Fri) :: Calgary AB :: Rocky Mountain Folk Club
