WILD: The Lost Highway features Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson, Barry Saunders and Marlon Williams. Photo/supplied
THE Church Tour 2015 presents one of its most tantalising artist line-ups in its already storied seven-year history, with four of New Zealand's most lauded musical talents combining.
Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson, Barry Saunders and Marlon Williams are The Lost Highway - playing country, alt-country, spaghetti noir, country rock, rockabilly,
western folk, Americana and honky tonk.
"The bill for this year's Church Tour is something very special, it has all the elements we think you need for a landmark tour - talent, camaraderie, passion and freshness, bound together by great songs and incredible voices in stunning venues. It is going to be epic," says promoter Brent Eccles.
The tour will showcase the styles and genres that scatter loosely under the flag of country music, converging at a place where yarns, myths, tales, legends and fables come to life through exceptional songwriting delivered via the incomparable voices of four artists-in-arms
Delaney Davidson is a singer, songwriter, producer and travelling minstrel - 10 years on the road, of no fixed abode. He's inspired by icons from Hank Williams and Howlin' Wolf down through Johnny Cash and back up to Buster Keaton. Tami Neilson has a soulful voice straight from the golden age of country and rockabilly music. A winner of multiple Country Album of the Year Tuis and a prestigious APRA Silver Scroll for Song of the Year (2014) amongst many other career highlights, Tami has been described as a "red-hot honky-tonker somewhere between Patsy Cline and Wanda Jackson, with perhaps just a little bit of Peggy Lee sophistication" (Nick Bollinger, NZ National Radio).
