Early James pushed himself to find a singing voice and songwriting style all his own, and it certainly got the attention of Nashville's Dan Auerbach. The Birmingham, AL artist was invited into Dan's Easy Eye Sound studio to write and produce his debut album Singing For My Supper in 2020. That release was acclaimed by stymied by the pandemic. Not so the new one, Strange Time To Be Alive, with its surreal, suggestive language and fevered country noir soundscape.
Auerbach founded Easy Eye in 2017, naming the label after his Nashville recording studio. Since, Easy Eye Sound has released over 20 albums by artists including Grammy-nominated Yola, Shannon and the Clams, Robert Finley, Early James and more. Auerbach himself has earned eight Grammys, and has been nominated for producer of the year two years running. This year, he s up for producing and co-writing Marcus King s acclaimed
El Dorado (released on both Easy Eye and King s label home Fantasy Records), as well as the label s
Cypress Grove by Jimmy Duck Holmes and
Singing For My Supper by Early James, among others. When I founded Easy Eye Sound, it was meant as a home base for my musical vision and as a way to discover and support artists I believe in,” Auerbach said in a statement. “It s exciting to see the record label and recording studio evolve.