“I love Cortney’s sound and style; magical sparkles come out of her voicebox” Jim James, My Morning Jacket

Nashville based CORTNEY TIDWELL has announced details of her new album BOYS, the follow up to her debut album, Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up, which was released to universal critical acclaim in 2006 and cited as one of the best ten albums of the year by the UK’s Sunday Times newspaper. It will be released by City Slang Records. The album contains 11 brand new tracks, including Being Crosby, a duet with Jim James (My Morning Jacket).

Recorded in CORTNEY’s home and her friends’ homes and co-produced by CORTNEY, her husband Todd Tidwell and Ryan Norris, BOYS is, like its predecessor, an astonishingly eclectic and genre-defying mix of the many musical forms that have inspired her. It owes as much to Depeche Mode and Joy Division as it does to Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash, and as much, if not more, to Great Britain as to The Grand Ole Opry. It’s all held together by CORTNEY’s extraordinary voice: athletic and graceful, as capable of immaculate innocence as banshee wails, and equipped with an irrefutable ability to strike right to the heart.

Since …STARS… was released TIDWELL has seen a remix of its title track by the esteemed producer, DJ and musician Ewan Pearson end up in Pitchfork’s roundup of 2007’s Tracks Of The Year. CORTNEY also recently collaborated with Sideshow (the alter ego of Ninjatune artist Fink) while a featured vocal for Belgian band Arsenal was included on their most recent release, which sat atop the Belgian charts for two weeks. Rumours of further collaborations may prove accurate.