Real Warmth

Description

Joan Shelley follows up her critically acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her seventh album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station, Jake Xerxes Fussell), features 13 tracks and includes many guests from the city's fertile music scene such as Tamara Lindenman, Doug Paisley, drummer Philippe Melanson, saxophonist Karen Ng, Matt Kelley, and Ken Whiteley. Joan's partner, guitarist Nathan Salsburg, is also featured. Toronto artist Heather Goodchild designed and painted the cover and inner sleeve. Shelley has toured worldwide with Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Wilco, and others. She has performed at Lincoln Center and the Newport Folk Festival, has been featured on the covers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine and Fretboard Journal, and has been a guest on WTF with Marc Maron and Fresh Air.