14 days ago
Northern Transmissions
Murray A. Lightburn, the longtime frontman of The Dears, is back with a new single/video “Dumpster Gold,” to announce his third solo full-length album, Once Upon A Time In Montreal, available March 31st release via Dangerbird Records (Grandaddy, Milly). Discussing “Dumpster Gold”, Lightburn notes, “About a year or so after my old man passed, my mom called and said, ‘Murray, I’ve made a big decision: I’m selling the house’. We were the only family that ever lived in it, one of many identical houses in a section of Brossard, Quebec. There’s no hard bop on Once Upon A Time in Montreal, but it does feature an array of Montreal jazz players. As soon as Lozano finished, “I knew it was a 400-foot home run,” says Lightburn.
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