Hold The Spark, the third album from North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Florence Dore, is out now. For the new collection, Dore delivers emotion-driven vocals and is backed by a Rock band. The songs span the spectrum, from a love song for her daughter, to a Stooges-leaning rocker skewering academic meetings, to reflections on missed romance and mortality.

Produced by Don Dixon (R.E.M.) and mixed by Paul Voran (Bon Iver, Nathaniel Rateliff, Waxahatchee), Hold the Spark features an all-star cast including Jason Wilber (John Prine) and Chris Masterson (The Wallflowers, Steve Earle & the Dukes) on guitars, with husband Will Rigby (Steve Earle & the Dukes, The dB’s) on drums, plus guest appearances from Mitch Easter, Libby Rodenbough, Robert Sledge, Kelly Pratt, and Eleanor Whitmore.

Florence Dore’s second album, Highways & Rocketships (Propeller Sound Recordings 2022) won Best Americana Album of the Year at Lonesome Highway Magazine in 2022, and Dore toured extensively behind that album, selling out New York’s Rockwood Music Hall and playing clubs from Cleveland and Boston to Atlanta, Nashville, and New Orleans. She landed opening slots with Steve Earle, Southern Culture on the Skids, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, and Dash Rip Rock.