Suede & ‘Lene – the Nashville-based band led by GRAMMY® Award-winning songwriter/producer Angelo Petraglia (Kings of Leon, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Taylor Swift) and powerhouse frontwoman Eulene Sherman – have shared their debut album ‘Hymns For Lost Things‘ via Burnside/The Orchard.
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Suede & ‘Lene made an album the way Dylan did it in 1966: using the best musicians Nashville had to offer, while not striving for a strictly country result. The sessions quickly gelled with players of an extraordinarily high caliber; like Sam Bush – former New Grass Revival mainstay and frequent sideman with Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett – on mandolin and violin; and Dan Dugmore (Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor) on pedal steel. As Angelo explains, “It was coming fast, it was really flowing. We had about 55 songs. We ended up finishing, mixing and mastering 20 of them.”
From the autobiographical ‘Nashville ‘93‘ and slinky, insistent ‘B.O.T.T.‘ to the anthemic ‘Livin In The Country‘ and the Stooges-style rocker ‘I Was In a Cult‘, Suede & ‘Lene have crafted a collection of songs that sounds like a collision of worlds – sweet but unpolished, intricate but impulsive, balancing razor-sharp instincts with raw, unvarnished intimacy and concise social commentary. ‘A Message From Jane‘ may well be the LPs artistic centerpiece, introducing a fictional protagonist, ‘Jane‘, whose arresting reflections on life pour out as she struggles with her life as a musical artist throughout the album.
“‘Hymns for Lost Things‘ – we all have hymns for lost things; friends, lovers, pieces of ourselves, moments that slipped through our fingers. The songs on this album are about faith and betrayal, reckoning with what’s gone and what’s changed. These songs look back, not always gently. Little chapters torn from the book of what once was.” – Suede & ‘Lene
About Suede & ‘Lene:
Suede & ‘Lene didn’t plan this. Not really. One minute, Angelo Petraglia, a seasoned Nashville songmaker and sonic architect known for his work with artists spanning Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, and Trisha Yearwood to Kim Richey, The Black Keys, and Peter Wolf, was firing off songs in the worn-in corner of their 100-year-old Nashville bungalow. The next, Eulene Sherman, a classically-trained singer, actor, and frontwoman with such acclaimed combos as The Jane Shermans, was weaving harmonies, basslines and melodies into the mix. It wasn’t a band yet – just the buzz of two people with too much music in their heads to ignore it. But the songs wouldn’t stop. Coffee-fueled jam sessions turned into notebooks full of ideas. Somewhere along the way, the two New York City-born, Nashville transplants realized they weren’t just dabbling – they were building something special.
This project also marks a role reversal. For Angelo, it’s about stepping out of the shadows of writing and producing for others to tell his own stories. For Eulene, it’s a shift away from the spotlight–trading her lead-singer artist swagger for a place in the fabric, focusing on harmonies, basslines, and production. It’s a balancing act, and it works because neither of them ever lets ego get in the way of the song.
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