Ida Mae get "Lost on Your Time"

Thursday, July 6, 2023 – The Nashville / London-based Americana duo Ida Mae released their new single "Lost on Your Time," the second song to be released from their forthcoming album, "Thunder Above You," out on Aug. 25.

The 11-song collection, the follow-up to 2021's "Click Click Domino," was conceived following Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean discovering she was pregnant while on tour with Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams in San Francisco. They went to the English countryside of Norwich and teamed with longtime collaborators Ethan Johns, who contributed drums and bassist Nick Pini (Laura Marling, Nick Mulvey), to record the album live to tape in seven days.

Turpin said, "When I wrote 'Lost on Your Time,' I'd been diving deeper into the folk roots of my childhood. I was rediscovering guitar tunings used by Nick Drake, Richard Thompson and Martin Simpson. I'd ordered a guitar from Roger Fylde, a parlor guitar made partly of a piece of Sinker Redwood, cut from a 200-year-old tree pulled from a river bed in Northern California."

"'Lost on Your Time' was the first song written on the guitar. The combination of the century-old American wood and ancient British ballad melodies I was learning seemed to gently come together. "

"The symbolism and imagery of those old songs seeped into the lyric. The song echoes the night drives we'd taken through the mountains in the USA, moving from show to show. Those still moments when it was just me, Stephanie and the road. It was the first song we cut on the record. The whole band live in close proximity. I can hear the nervous tension and excitement between the players as a static energy on the recording."

"Lost on Your Time" follows the release of the "My Whispers Are Wildfire."

In planning the new album, Turpin said, "Much of my teenage years were spent obsessing over what bands like Free and Led Zeppelin were listening to, and as a teenager I'd go to my local arts center and see people like Martin Simpson and Bert Jansch perform. As I've got older I've begun to rediscover them, Nick Drake, and John Martyn. So I began to lean more into the British folk world, and that's definitely expressed itself on the album."

The track list is:
1 My Whispers Are Wildfire
2 Into Your River
3 American Cars
4 Doing It for Badness
5 Lost on Your Time
6 To Your Love
7 Wild Flying Dove
8 Feel the World Turning
9 Landslide
10 Thunder Above You
11 Hold You Like Fading Light

Tour dates are:
July 22 -Boulder, CO - Chautauqua Auditorium (with The Wood Brothers)
July 23 - Breckenridge, CO - Riverwalk Center (with The Wood Brothers)
July 24 - Fort Collins, CO - New Belgium Brewing Company (with The Wood Brothers)
July 26- Grand Junction, CO - The Avalon Theatre (with The Wood Brothers)
Aug. 8/24-27 - Kettering, UK - Greenbelt Festival