Nancy Elizabeth: Battle and Victory

Nancy Elizabeth is releasing Battle and Victory on September 24, via the UK’s The Leaf Label. This thirteen track album will be released on vinyl, CD, and digital. Two singles are preceding the release of the full-length: Hey Son and I Used To Try, each with b-sides. Hey Son was released on July 23 on a limited edition 7″ and digital. I Used To Try will be out on September 10 in similar format. Both songs can be heard on her Myspace.

Music lovers that are drawn to atypical instruments should take note of Nancy Elizabeth. Beyond the guitar, this 23 year-old’s repertoire includes khim, Indian Harmonium, Appalachian dulcimer, bouzouki, 22-string Celtic harp and others.

Battle and Victory was recorded, “in a 17th Century white stone cottage in the remote Welsh countryside, and a village hall outside Manchester, resulting in an intimate, uncontrived gem of a record. Using a minimum of recording equipment, the heartfelt honesty of her songs is revealed, extending to grander, more complex arrangements when the occasion calls, and bringing in friends to add cello, horns and percussion.”

Nancy Elizabeth – Battle and Victory track listing:
1. I’m Like The Paper
2. I Used To Try
3. Off With Your Axe
4. The Remote Past
5. Coriander
6. 8 Brown Legs
7. Electric
8. Hey Son
9. Weakened Bow
10. What Is Human
11. Lung
12. How Can I Stop?
13. Battle and Victory

Nancy Elizabeth will tour the UK with Thee, Stranded Horse in November, with plans being made for a tour in Italy and France. She will be backed up by a “small touring group,” though thus far she has been known for performing solo on guitar and harp.

“Nancy has been writing songs since she was 14, and has performed live for six years. In the last twelve months she has appeared at the Green Man Festival, and played alongside A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Tunng and James Yorkston among others.”

In 2006 Elizabeth released her debut EP, The Wheel Turning King, under her full name, Nancy Elizabeth Cunliffe. She decided to drop her family name since, “no one beyond a two mile radius of Wigan can pronounce ‘Cunliffe’ properly.”

Nancy Elizabeth – I Used To Try

Nancy Elizabeth on iTunes
Nancy Elizabeth at eMusic

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Sep 10 2007 – Bush Hall with john smith – LONDON
Sep 16 – End of the Road festival – DORSET
Sep 22 – thermal festival – MATLOCK BATH
Oct 11 – The Rampant Lion – MANCHESTER
Oct 30 – The Arches – GLASGOW
Nov 1 – The Corporation – SHEFFIELD
Nov 2 – Dulcimer – MANCHESTER
Nov 4 – The Adelphi – HULL
Nov 5 – Brudenell Social Club – LEEDS
Nov 7 – 93 Feet East – LONDON
Nov 8 – Taylor John’s house – COVENTRY
Nov 9 – Meantime Arts Space – CHELTENHAM
Nov 10 – The Cube – BRISTOL
Nov 11 – Miss peapods – FALMOUTH
Nov 12 – South Hill Arts Centre – RINGMEAD
Nov 13 – Arts Centre – COLCHESTER
Nov 18 – Yorkshire house, supporting John Renbourn – LANCASTER

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