Lucie Tiger released her debut album, Alabama Highway on April 15, 2022. The album reached #14 on the ARIA Country Albums chart (Australia's equivalent to the Billboard Country Music Chart) on 25 April 2022, (see link). Alabama Highway charted at #10 on the AIR 100% Independent Albums on the same day (see link).
Everything in Lucie Tiger’s life is in her songs, and everything in her songs is in her life.
The seven self-penned songs on Alabama Highway reflect the stories that emerged from a journey that came at a pivotal point in Lucie Tiger's life. Whilst finding her voice as an emerging country-rock singer-songwriter from Sydney, Lucie Tiger discovered that many of the songs that inspired her over the years were recorded in the same small town - Muscle Shoals, Alabama. She finally travelled to the Shoals in 2019, a place where the Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin as well as The Rolling Stones and more recently Jason Isbell and The Black Keys recorded.
Two singles on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart:
Found My Home #50 Music Row Country Breakout Chart - July 23, 2021 (14 weeks on the chart)
Midnight Goodbye #68 Music Row Country Breakout Chart - December 10, 2021 (10 weeks on the chart)
Three Top 40 singles in Australia
Found My Home #20 CountryTown Hot 50 Chart (AUS) - April 9, 2021 (6 weeks on the chart)
Midnight Goodbye #34 CountryTown Hot 50 Chart (AUS) - October 22, 2021 (8 weeks on the chart)
Do Me Right #36 CountryTown Hot 50 Chart (AUS) - December 21, 2021 (4 weeks on the chart)
Right Next To You #48 CountryTown Top 50 Chart (AUS) - May 20, 2022
Found My Home did exceptionally well, reaching #50 on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart and #20 on the CountryTown Hot 50 Chart (Australia).
Midnight Goodbye reached #34 on the Australian Radio CountryTown Hot 50 chart and #68 on the Music Row Country Breakout chart. The track describes that universal feeling when you’ve just had your heart broken and you want the other person to walk out the door so you can move on and leave the heartbroken feelings for another day.
Do Me Right peaked at #36 on the Australian Radio CountryTown Hot 50 chart and #78 on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart. The track captures the feeling that we all had after being in lockdown: missing loved ones and keen to get out to a bar, let our hair down, and just have some fun.
Right Next To You, which celebrates the sense of freedom from a life on the road and the anticipation of travelling with the one you've chosen, reached #48 on the Australian Radio CountryTown Hot 50 chart.
Aside from the singles that were promoted to radio, the fit between Lucie’s songs and the ‘magic in the water’ at the Shoals, a music town on the banks of the Tennessee River, is also reflected in the title track Alabama Highway.
Lucie’s love of being on the road sees her draw inspiration from the people she meets and the joy of travelling along the old back roads through the South. Bitter With The Sweet was inspired by a man whose own challenges and travels with his dog gave Lucie reassurance that bitter moments can have a silver lining.
In The Devil You Know Lucie has reimagined the legend of the Devil at the Crossroads in a story that casts her in the title role as ‘the devil you know’ at the old crossroads, a nod to the history and traditions that swirl around Blues legend, Robert Johnson.
Alabama Highway - Track listing
- Bitter With The Sweet
- Found My Home
- Alabama Highway
- Right Next To You
- Midnight Goodbye
- Do Me Right
- The Devil You Know
Alabama Highway was recorded across two continents during the Covid pandemic. In Muscle Shoals, Bob Wray on bass guitar (The Highwaymen, Ray Charles), Will McFarlane on lead guitar (Bonnie Raitt) and Justin Holder on drums (Jason Isbell, ShoalsFest) laid down their music, informed by Lucie’s demo tracks. Back in Sydney, Lucie added rhythm guitar and vocals. The tracks, which came together at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals with the help of John Gifford III, were mastered by Don Srygley in Muscle Shoals, both of whom were GRAMMY nominated for Gregg Allman’s final album ‘Southern Blood’.
Music Row Country Breakout Chart References:
https://musicrow.com/wp-content/CBOcharts/MRW-07-23-2021.pdf
https://musicrow.com/wp-content/CBOcharts/MRW-12-10-2021.pdf
https://musicrow.com/wp-content/CBOcharts/MRW-07-01-2022.pdf
CountryTown Hot 50 Chart References:
https://countrytown.com/charts/countrytown-hot-50?year=2021&week=14
https://themusicnetwork.com/charts/issues/1336/chart/?list=Country-HOT-50
https://themusicnetwork.com/charts/issues/1364/chart/?list=Countrytown-HOT-50
https://themusicnetwork.com/charts/issues/1354/chart/?list=Countrytown-HOT-50
https://countrytown.com/charts/countrytown-hot-50?year=2021&week=32
https://countrytown.com/charts/countrytown-hot-50?year=2021&week=52
https://countrytown.com/charts/countrytown-hot-50?year=2022&week=20