Ian Noe Re-Emerges to Announces New Double Concept Album

In March of 2019, Saving Country Music proclaimed, “Remember the name Ian Noe, Music Fans.” After releasing his albums Between The Country (2019) and River Fools & Mountain Saints (2022), folks found out why. Though knowledge of his music still remains rather underground, for those devotees who’ve been following the Kentucky-based singer/songwriter with a rare voice and even more rare songcraft, few names loom larger. That is why the announcement of a new double album is being met with major excitement.

Though Ian Noe had a lot of momentum behind his back after his 2022 release, a broken wrist and cancelled shows resulted in a further downward spiral that had him taking an indefinite hiatus from music altogether, and virtually disappearing from the public space. It was a fair concern if we’d ever hear more Ian Noe music again, or if he’d perform more shows. But in a strange way, his absence only heightened the mystique around his music.

After finally re-emerging to play some shows recently, and releasing a tribute to Blaze Foley called “Jukebox Blues” in March, Ian Noe has announced the release of a new 16-song concept album called Canyon Falls Trailer Band. To be released on September 25th, it was produced by Andrija Tokic at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville, with contributions from Russ Pahl on guitar, Charlie McCoy on harmonica, and Billy Contreras on fiddle.

The concept behind the album is said to be a fictional band called the “Canyon Falls Trailer Band” who play a one-off showcase trying to earn industry approval. The band showcases a mix of country and folk rock, and their performance becomes the stuff of legend, even if the ultimate fate of the band goes unknown in the fictional realm.

“It feels like the parent or maybe the grandparent of the first two records,” Ian Noe says of the project. “Once it was finished, I realized it brought together everything I’d been writing about over the last seven or eight years.”

Ahead of the album, Ian Noe has released the song “The Heidelberg Fisherman’s Ball” (listen below). Noe says about the song, “This is simply the story of a fisherman’s gathering down by the riverside where the various women of Heidelberg present themselves like a date auction and try to find a mate.”

Canyon Falls Trailer Band is now available for pre-save and pre-order.

TRACK LIST:

1. “Canyon Falls Trailer Band”
2. “The Heidelberg Fisherman’s Ball”
3. “Tobacco Moon”
4. “She’s Familiar (In the Strangest Ways)”
5. “Kentucky Hurricane”
6. “What I’d Give”
7. “Redneck Mess”
8. “Antarctica”
9. “Another Night Like That”
10. “Bible County”
11. “Leeann”
12. “Return of the Interstellar Angels”
13. “Whiskey to Work”
14. “Jukebox Blues (For Blaze Foley)”
15. “Dixie Speed”
16. “Kickin’ it in Nashville”