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“Ten beautifully crafted acoustic songs steeped in darkness but imbued with resilience. In an era of falsity, Ledfoot’s sublime songwriting shines though” VIVE LE ROCK
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The King of Gothic Blues is back! Ledfoot (Tim Scott McConnell) will make a long-awaited return to the UK in late July to play four dates promoting his 2025 album, ‘Plain Simple Honesty’. His eighth full-length solo release, it is exactly what its title suggests; a collection of brutally honest songs straight from the heart relating small yet powerful stories that guide listeners through the darker corners of the human psyche, populated with characters who endure despite constant setbacks.
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“Telling the truth is sometimes the hardest thing to do, but it’s always worth the effort” LEDFOOT
‘Plain Simple Honesty’ blends Ledfoot’s signature sound with the rich tradition of American singer-songwriters. In addition to 12-string guitar, he plays baritone guitar, bass, percussion and banjo. The last of these was his first stringed instrument and displays the clear influence of early heroes Doc Boggs and Roscoe Holcomb.
Recorded at Studio Nyhagen in eastern Norway with Ledfoot co-producing alongside Kjartan Hesthagen and Markus O. Klyve, the trio achieved a sound that lies somewhere between the 2022 Norwegian Grammy-winning album ‘Coffin Nails’ and it’s 2024 follow-up, ‘Outsiders’.
LEDFOOT | BIOGRAPHY
Ledfoot (Tim Scott McConnell) is an American musician and songwriter who has been based in Norway for the last three decades. Starting out in 1980 as a member of The Rockats while still in his teens, he then recorded two solo records in the mid-’80s before co-founding The Havalinas, who also issued two albums and supported Bob Dylan on his ‘Oh Mercy’ world tour to promote the first of them. His 1987 solo song ‘High Hopes’ was subsequently covered twice by Bruce Springsteen, initially for the B’side of a 1996 single and again for what became the title song of a 2014 album that went to no. 1 in multiple territories, including both the US and UK.
In between those boosts from The Boss, McConnell had begun recording a highly distinctive brand of Gothic Blues as Ledfoot from his base in the Norwegian woods, with his first of his eight solo albums to date under that name appearing in 2007. His thickly-strung 12-string acoustic guitar played with a brass slide and stomp box served as accompaniment to his weather-beaten voice, sounding raw and genuinely real. He has gone on to win the Spellemann Award (Norwegian Grammy) in the Blues category twice, including in 2023 for ‘Coffin Nails’. His 2024 album ‘Outsiders’ saw him accompanied by a full band for a set of songs redolent of Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Bruce Springsteen and Mink DeVille.
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