Kyle Frederick - Burn Your Poor Mouth Down (2020)

Melody Chef Music and Byron House Music have joined forces to record and release Already November, the new Americana EP from Kyle Frederick, available now on iTunes, Amazon, and other leading digital retailers.

Singer, songwriter and musician Frederick authored all of the EP’s tunes, and credits the commute between his home and Nashville for helping create them. In 2016, Frederick began devoting the hours he spent behind the wheel to writing. The songs that resulted are intense explorations of love and loss, the search for meaning and redemption, the passage of time and the legacies we leave behind.

That songs of experience should come from Frederick is only fitting. He has spent decades working on the creative and business sides of the music industry. He served as lead guitarist for acts such as Joe Sun, Earl Thomas Conley and Foster & Lloyd. Frederick then joined country star Clay Walker’s band, eventually becoming Walker’s manager. He also managed SHeDAISY and ran Walker’s Band Against MS charity. Already November is his third solo record.

Frederick’s new songs drew an enthusiastic response from Nashville studio owner, producer and bassist extraordinaire Byron House. House has toured and recorded with an impressive list of major acts, including Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, and Nickel Creek, and will be opening shows for The Eagles this year with JD and The Straight Shot.

House was intrigued by his old friend’s new direction. Having co-produced and recorded Frederick’s 2015 EP “Eventide,” House again offered his bass playing skills and Bethlehem Road Studio. House and Frederick shared production and split publishing between Frederick’s Melody Chef Music and House’s publishing company.

House and Frederick focused on eight tunes. The material led them beyond their initial concept of a bare-bones acoustic record to a more fleshed-out set featuring imaginative arrangements. Frederick stuck to his conviction to play only acoustic guitar, and a variety of talents handled drums, background vocals and other instruments. The result is a strikingly original record that rewards every listen.

Byron HouseByron House was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He grew up playing a variety of instruments and enjoying many different styles of music. At age 17, bass became his main instrument. Originally inspired by Jaco Pastorius, he focused on fretless electric bass for a season, and soon began playing upright and fretted electric bass as well. He trained classically with Ernest Szugyi at Western Kentucky University, and is currently studying with jazz legend/master bassist Ron Carter.

Byron is a Grammy-nominated bass player. Career highlights include live and/or in studio performances with the likes of Amy Grant, Buddy & Julie Miller, Chris Thile, Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Douglas, Jorma Kaukonen, Linda Ronstadt, Mark O’Connor, Michael Bolton, Nickel Creek, Sam Bush, and The Whistles and The Bells, to name a few. Also, in 2010-11 Byron recorded and toured as a member of Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy. Among the most recent of Byron’s releases is the Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell album, “The Traveling Kind” (Nonesuch). In 2015 he began recording and touring with JD & The Straight Shot.

Byron’s production credits include Jorma Kaukonen’s “Stars In My Crown” , The Waybacks’ “Loaded”, and Tina Lie’s “Free Enough To Fall”.