49th Ann Arbor Folk Festival
Saturday, January 31st
at Hill Auditorium
Tickets
Member and Student Pre-Sale: Nov 12 & 13
Public Sale: Nov 14
Amos Lee’s eleventh studio album, Transmissions, features twelve songs recorded live in a rural New York studio in less than a week, marking a return to an old-school style. The self-produced album explores themes of loss, aging, and finding one’s place in a changing world and is his first original music release on his own Hoagiemouth Records.
The last few years have been wildly productive for Philadelphia native Lee. After 2022’s Dreamland album (which featured “Worry No More,” a Top Ten AAA hit and his biggest single in over a decade), he followed up with two full-length projects paying homage to musical heroes—My Ideal: A Tribute to ‘Chet Baker Sings’ and Honeysuckle Switches: The Songs of Lucinda Williams. He expresses his awe for these two renegade artists; Williams for her incomparable language and Baker for his delivery. “I love songs that have the ability to expose a wide range of emotions in a short song,” he says. “That’s what my favorite songs always do.”
Amos Lee’s own perfectly constructed songs linger in the mind and the heart. His tremendous vocal range, technical skill and emotional depth combine into something personal that stays with you long after you hear it. “Great songwriters don’t come along that often. Amos is an exceptional artist, a true story teller, unique to his generation,” says Willie Nelson, and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.