Little Big Town

A Place To Land

‘If You believe in something, you’ve got to fight to see it through’ declares Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook. ‘We won’t ever give up’.

Little Big Town believes fiercely in the music on it’s new album, A Place To Land – so when a change of record label left it in limbo shortly after its November 2007 release, they didn’t give up on it. Now That Westbrook and band mates Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman and Phillip Sweet have found a new home at Capitol Records Nashville (and finally set to be released in the UK by Humphead Records), Little Big Town’s faith in A Place To Land has been rewarded with a new Life.

‘We want the world to hear this music’ Georgia native Schlapman says. ‘It’s our heart and soul. It’s who we are, and we put so much of ourselves into it. It’s how we tell the story of our lives’. But this isn’t the album plenty of Little Big Town Fans already know and love, it’s much more. Three brand new studio tracks demonstrate the group’s continuing growth and evolution, while ‘Life in a Northern Town’ the hit live collaboration with tour mates Sugarland and Jake Owen, captures it’s onstage sizzle. ‘We’re getting a boost of creativity from being in a new situation’, Arkansas born Sweet says of the new tracks. ‘The music is really feeling alive and fresh for us’. A Dazzling showcase of Little Big Town’s diversity, originality and song craft, A Place To Land was never short of inspiration. Recorded at long time producer Wayne Kirkpatrick’s studio outside Nashville, the follow up to 2005’s smash The Road To Here vividly reflects the emotional currents and concerns of the band right now. ‘We did a lot of soul searching while making these records. It was a very intense, and very gratifying experience’. Among the new studio tracks debuting alongside ‘Life In A Northern Town’ is one that harkens back to the beginnings of Little Big Town almost 10 years ago. Kirkpatrick’s ‘Love Profound’ was among the first song the group ever sang together, before they even met the man who wrote it. ‘It’s a beautiful song about the power of love and what it gets you through’ Schlapman says. ‘The lyrics ring absolutely true for us both individually and as a band. We’re a family, and the love we have for each other and for the music is the reason we’re still around’.

The road to here has been an eventful one, for certain – and the road ahead promises to be just as exciting. The first step in that process is this revisited, reloaded and renewed edition of the band’s finest work to date.

‘All we ever wanted to do was to travel around and write songs and play them for people’, Westbrook says. ‘There’s a great joy in that for all of us. We have a great life doing what we do, and we just want to keep doing it. We want to keep exploring, growing and finding new challenges’

Complete List of Little Big Town Albums

• A Place To Land
  
• The Road to Here
  
• Pain Killer