Luke Reynolds
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Luke Reynolds | |
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Birth name | Lucas Fitzpatrick Reynolds |
Born | April 20, 1979 |
Origin | Cornwall, Vermont |
Genres | pop, alternative, instrumental, field recordings |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, pedal steel, programming |
Labels | Island, Vanguard |
Website | http://lukereynoldsmusic.com/ |
Luke Reynolds (born April 20, 1979) is an American songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, studio musician, field recordist and producer.
Career
Studio Work
As a session guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, he has worked on wide-ranging projects from Sharon Van Etten (Remind Me Tomorrow), Neko Case (Hell-On), Sarah Jarosz (Grammy Award-winning album Undercurrent) and Miranda Lambert (ACM Album of the Year The Weight of These Wings), to Phosphorescent (C'est La Vie), Rayland Baxter (Imaginary Man), and Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Corazones).
Solo Work
Reynolds has released six solo albums—The Neighborhood (2019), The Space Between the Lines (2006), Pictures And Sound (2008), Maps (2010) and After The Flood (2014), and Vanishing Places Vol. 1 Bears Ears (2019), which was written and recorded based on a series of field recordings he made in Bears Ears National Monument. James Gadson played drums and Lars Horntveth contributed horns, woodwinds, and keyboards.
Early career
In 1999, Reynolds moved to Nashville to pursue music and attend Belmont University. He interned at Compass Records and Lost Highway Records. In 2002, he formed the band Blue Merle. In February 2005, Blue Merle released Burning in the Sun on Island Records, produced by Stephen Harris. The album reached number eight on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and peaked at number 199 on the Billboard 200.[1] The single, "Burning in the Sun", went top 5 at AAA radio.[2] They performed at Lollapalooza,[3] Farm Aid and Bonnaroo and toured with J.J. Cale and Guster. Their last show was Friday, April 21, 2006 at Vanderbilt University's Rites of Spring music festival.[4] Following Blue Merle,[5] Reynolds left Nashville and spent the next two and a half years writing a body of work which would be released under the name Pictures And Sound, released in August 2008. The album was produced by Jacquire King [6][7] and included a duet with Willie Nelson.[8]
Guster
Before starting their 2010 fall tour, Guster announced that Joe Pisapia would not be touring with the band. Instead, Joe would be touring with k.d. lang with whom he had been writing songs. It was also announced that Luke Reynolds would be filling in for Joe starting September 12, 2010.[9] In 2014 the band began recording Evermotion in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Evermotion was released on January 13, 2015 and was produced by Richard Swift.[10][11] Most recently, Guster released their album Look Alive in January 2019, recorded with producers Leo Abrahams and John Congleton. This is the band's second album with Reynolds as a full member and co-writer, following their Richard Swift produced LP, Evermotion.
Select discography
- 2019 The Neighborhood Luke Reynolds
- 2019 Blood Allison Moorer (Autotelic Records, Thirty Tigers)
- 2019 Vanishing Places Vol. 1 Bears Ears Luke Reynolds
- 2019 Remind Me Tomorrow Sharon Van Etten (Jagjaguwar)
- 2019 Look Alive Guster (Ocho Mule)
- 2018 C'est La Vie Phosphorescent (Dead Oceans)
- 2018 Hell-On Neko Case (Anti-)
- 2016 The Beginning of Things Charlie Worsham (Warner Bros)
- 2016 Corazones Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Ipecac Recordings)
- 2016 The Weight of These Wings Miranda Lambert (RCA)
- 2016 Undercurrent Sarah Jarosz (Sugar Hill)
- 2015 Imaginary Man Rayland Baxter (ATO)
- 2015 Evermotion Guster (Ocho Mule)
- 2014 Bob Dylan in the 80's Vol 1 Yellowbirds (ATO)
- 2014 After the Flood Luke Reynolds
- 2013 Live Acoustic Guster (Ocho Mule)
- 2011 On the Ocean EP Guster (Ocho Mule)
- 2011 Loverboy Brett Dennen (Dualtone Records)
- 2011 Self Titled The Belle Brigade (Warner Bros)
- 2010 Maps Luke Reynolds
- 2010 Chicken & Egg Tim O'Brien (Howdy Skies)
- 2008 Pictures And Sound Pictures And Sound (Vanguard)
- 2007 Soundtrack August Rush (Columbia)
- 2006 Space Between the Lines EP Luke Reynolds
- 2006 Hands Across the Water A Benefit For The Children Of The Tsunami Compilation (Compass Records)
- 2005 Live at Bull Moose Blue Merle (Island)
- 2005 Burning in the Sun Blue Merle (Island)
- 2004 The Fires EP Blue Merle (Island)
- 2003 Traveler Tim O'Brien (Sugar Hill)
References
- ^ "Blue Merle | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ^ "Blue Merle - UnRated Music Magazine". www.unratedmagazine.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Country News, Breaking Music Entertainment News from Nashville - CMT". CMT News.
- ^ "Blue Merle biography - Last.fm". Last.fm.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-08-16. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "AllMusic - Record Reviews, Streaming Songs, Genres & Bands". AllMusic.
- ^ "Blue Merle's Luke Reynolds Returns with Solo Debut - antiMUSIC News". www.antimusic.com.
- ^ "Joe Pisapia Leaves Guster To Tour with k.d. lang". Retrieved 7 September 2010.
- ^ "Working Swiftly". guster.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ^ "Evermotion - Guster | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-03-10.