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Zach Schmidt has been waiting for this moment. His second full-length album Raise A Banner (out on April 16) was recorded and slated for a 2020 release but shelved along with so many other projects from artists around the world. Despite the delay - perhaps in a silver lining moment - the album’s themes are now more apropos than ever: fighting through hardship, searching for truth in a world of lies, enduring personal loss.
Produced by <a href="spotify:artist:1PdKRqoRmRPss6iYMksuZC" data-name="Sadler Vaden">Sadler Vaden</a> at Nashville’s Creative Workshop, Raise A Banner is a long-jumper’s leap forward for Schmidt and an exclamatory flag-planting of a commanding voice in the Americana genre, establishing him amongst the ilk with whom he recorded. Backing him throughout the album is <a href="spotify:artist:3Q8wgwyVVv0z4UEh1HB0KY" data-name="Jason Isbell">Jason Isbell</a>’s <a href="spotify:artist:3Lg3FGwBxOGuefqekQzRUf" data-name="Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit">Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit</a> (Jimbo Hart, Chad Gamble, Derry Deboria, and Vaden, with Isbell even contributing electric guitar on the barn-burning Foregone Conclusion), and longtime contributors, vocalist Jackie Berkley and pedal steel wingman Adam Kurtz.
Like some moments in life, on Raise A Banner sometimes it takes the pauses and the quieter moments to balance the effusive; when you really have to listen for you to hear the power of what’s being said. Raise A Banner is that silver lining moment for Zach Schmidt.
Produced by <a href="spotify:artist:1PdKRqoRmRPss6iYMksuZC" data-name="Sadler Vaden">Sadler Vaden</a> at Nashville’s Creative Workshop, Raise A Banner is a long-jumper’s leap forward for Schmidt and an exclamatory flag-planting of a commanding voice in the Americana genre, establishing him amongst the ilk with whom he recorded. Backing him throughout the album is <a href="spotify:artist:3Q8wgwyVVv0z4UEh1HB0KY" data-name="Jason Isbell">Jason Isbell</a>’s <a href="spotify:artist:3Lg3FGwBxOGuefqekQzRUf" data-name="Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit">Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit</a> (Jimbo Hart, Chad Gamble, Derry Deboria, and Vaden, with Isbell even contributing electric guitar on the barn-burning Foregone Conclusion), and longtime contributors, vocalist Jackie Berkley and pedal steel wingman Adam Kurtz.
Like some moments in life, on Raise A Banner sometimes it takes the pauses and the quieter moments to balance the effusive; when you really have to listen for you to hear the power of what’s being said. Raise A Banner is that silver lining moment for Zach Schmidt.
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