If you consider yourself a fan of contemporary American folk music, chances are you will already be aware of Gregory Alan Isakov. Ever since 2003’s Rust Colored Stones, Isakov has been releasing an evocative brand of indie folk music, adding a Springsteenian energy to his own timeless, guitar-driven tales of love and loss. There are plenty of records to explore, but if you need convincing in a hurry just listen to his cover of Iron & Wine’s ‘The Trapeze Swinger’ for Fuel/Friends’ Chapel Session series and tell us you aren’t a believer.
Anyway, Isakov is back with a new album to be released early this summer, Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony. The perspicacious amongst you might be able to guess just what the record entails, but we’ll expand for the sake of clarity. After performing with the symphony in 2013, Isakov has enlisted their help to record eleven old compositions, transforming his humble folk songs into large, sweeping things. ‘Liars’, the first song from the album, was written by Ron Scott and the arrangement is from Jay Clifford, with the Colorado Symphony conducted by Scott O’Neil. Check out the video below, directed and edited by Sarah Megyesy:
Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony is due out on the 10th June and you can pre-order it now via iTunes. He is also taking the record onto the road, teaming up with a variety of other orchestras across a multitude of states: