This November Ags will be touring the UK with Texas country artist Summer Dean, opening all the shows on what will be her first trip to the UK!
Summer’s new album ‘The Biggest Life’, produced by Bruce Robison, has been receiving rave reviews and her reputation as a live performer has been growing following tours with the likes of Colter Wall and Mike and The Moonpies.
Be sure to catch Ags with the ‘Blue Jean Country Queen’ on one of these dates! Tickets and info can be found HERE.
The new album ‘Siempre’, funded by a Kickstarter campaign and produced by Ags himself is officially released today!
Early reviews have called it “his best album to date” (Country Music People), “damn good” (Rocking Magpie), “great” (Nightshift magazine) and ” a visionary album” (EF Country).
‘Siempre’ is available to buy on CD HERE, with vinyl on the way soon! You can also stream and download it HERE.
The final single from the soon-to-be-released album ‘Siempre’ has been premiered by Glide Magazine!
‘Change My Mind’ is a tejano-flavoured polka, and Glide calls it: “…a tune that feels like a welcome revival of a brief period in country music that is far too overlooked, with Connolly’s country crooning fusing with the accordion and bajo quinto as naturally as chips and queso.”
Read the full article HERE.
‘Change My Mind’ will available to stream and download from tomorrow (26th May), while ‘Siempre’ will be released on 16th June 2023.
The major roots music website The Bluegrass Situation has premiered the second single from the upcoming album Siempre!
The song is called ‘Overwhelmed’. It’s a barroom waltz that Ags sees as an important piece of the patchwork of Texas music that makes up the new record.
Read the article HERE.
Siempre is due for release on 16th June 2023. You can pre-order it on CD today!
CD copies of the forthcoming album ‘Siempre’ are now available to pre-order! Just head to the Shop page on this site to receve your copy on or before the release date of 16th June 2023.
Please note that vinyl is currently on track but, due to known delays in the market, pre-orders for that won’t begin until a delivery date has been assured.
The roots website Americana Highways have today premiered Ags’s new single ‘Headed South For A While’!
They say: “Ags Connolly’s vocals contain an indelibly gritty wisdom that brings comfort to your jittery heart, and the way accordion is played adds a Western tinge to the production.”
Read the article HERE…
‘Headed South For A While’ is the first single from Ags’s new album ‘Siempre’, which is due for release on 16th June 2023.
Ags will be returning to the Netherlands for a run of dates in March and April!
After his successful tour there in 2020 and acclaimed appearance at the Ramblin’ Roots Festival in Utrecht in 2022, Ags is returning to play more Dutch shows this year.
The run will take in all the below venues – with a break in the middle for two UK shows with Mike and The Moonpies!
As was recently imparted to all the backers of the Kickstarter campaign, the new album ‘Siempre’ has now been recorded and mixed!
There’s still a way to go before it sees the light of day but the sessions were productive and successful, ably engineered and overseen by Stuart Jones at Woodworm Studios in Oxfordshire.
More news to come as things move forward with ‘Siempre’!
Yes folks, the Kickstarter campaign for Ags’ new album ‘Siempre’ is now complete and has been fully-funded!
Huge thanks to everyone who backed and supported the project. Ags will post updates on the progress of the album via the Kickstarter page.
Ags plans to start recording ‘Siempre’ in December with a planned release for the album in summer 2023. Stay tuned!
The Kickstarter campaign to fund Ags’s new album ‘Siempre’ has just over a month left to run!
The campaign is intended to enable the recording and production of the new album, and will only succeed if it is fully funded. Support so far has been incredible but there is still a little way to go!
If you haven’t had a chance yet, head over to the campaign page to see what the fuss is about! Check out Ags’s plans for the album and the rewards on offer for backers – oh, and ask any questions you may have…
You can back the campaign and read all about it HERE.
