Jeremy Ivey is back with his new LP Waiting Out The Storm due October 9th and produced by his wife Margo Price and is Ivey’s follow-up to last year’s The Dream and the Dreamer. This record takes a wider look at the world around us—the landscape, the people that populate it, and the ways in which we help each other survive against all odds.
“I decided to be political, but not so strongly one-sided about it,” he continues when speaking on Waiting Out the Storm’s lyrical themes. “Some of these songs are about things that are current, but they could also be true 30 years from now.”
As a Nashville resident, he and his fellow citizens have witnessed a series of unimaginable hardships over the last year, from the devastating tornado that ripped through the city in March to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—which Ivey himself fell ill to for several months. “I couldn’t quite beat it, so I was on the fringe,” he recalls. “It was rough. I had to deal with my mortality in a way that I hadn’t done yet. I’m enjoying my life a little bit more now, though. I’m appreciating my health more. Sometimes it takes staring death in the face to get to that point.”
Although it was written over a year ago, Jeremy Ivey’s new single “Someone Else’s Problem” couldn’t be more apt for today’s pandemic-ridden and racially charged times. Co-writtenPrice, the song is the first new track from Ivey’s sophomore effort Waiting Out The Storm, produced by Price and coming out October 9 via ANTI- . Tracing the steps of a well-to-do businessman who doesn’t initially think issues like war, famine and immigration affect him, watch the new video for “Someone Else’s Problem” below..
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