Sarah Buxton To Release New Project Signs of Life on 11/20

Artist: Sarah Buxton

Album: Signs of Life

Label: Big Dolphin Energy

Release date: November 20, 2021

“I always wanted to make a record that would live in somebody else’s world the way a Joni Mitchell record does in mine,” says Sarah Buxton about her new EP, Signs Of Life. “I always felt like Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks were my older sisters, walking with me, lifting my chin up and saying, ‘You got this.’” 

While Buxton may not be a household name just yet, she’s long established that kind of musical relationship with a hilariously long list of Nashville’s most popular and prolific artists, contributing her songs and her voice, oftentimes together, to records from the likes of Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Harry Connick Jr., Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Martina McBride, and many others. On November 20th, Buxton will share her voice and her songs with the world with the release of Signs Of Life, her first solo album in almost a decade. 

This week, Buxton released the EP’s first single, “Some Things Don’t Change,” a pulsing, groovy pop tune-meets-commentary on the reciprocal nature of humanity. “Every time there’s a new style, old folks say it’s too wild. It was better in the way back when. People talkin’ in the new slang, different way to say the same thing. Yeah, that’s how it’s always been.” 

 

“I feel like a huge theme in my life is learning how to love myself, listen to myself, observe myself, and accept myself,” says Buxton. “I used to have people I would go to for answers, but now, I’m trying to lean a little bit more on my own intuition.” Her intuition is the heart of this new collection of songs, beating deeply and freely, open and honest. For Buxton, Signs of Life is part of a bigger commitment to holding on to what matters and letting go of what we thought we needed but don’t. “It takes courage to grow younger in your heart as you’re getting older, and to not just close off,” Buxton says. “It takes a lot of shedding, too. There is a lot of grief in these songs. It’s been a time of growing up for me—but it’s also a return to who I was.”  

 

Whether writing songs or making music, a common thread of giving, receiving, and growing weaves throughout her work. “Pleasure, fun, and connecting with people—that’s when I make the best music, and when I’m the most happy,” she says. Recorded at Daniel Tashian’s studio—Tashian is also Buxton’s bandmate in Nashville’s beloved songwriter supergroup Skyline Motel along with Kate York and Ian Fitchuk—Signs of Life is a gorgeous product of the balance Buxton has mastered; chemistry with brilliant friends in support of her own confident vision. Tashian and Fitchuk contributed their part to the multi-instrumentalist chemistry along with a host of A-list musicians, including Buxton’s husband, session guitar wizard, Tom Bukovac.

 

The amalgamation of all of Buxton’s qualities is what makes her light shine so bright; her magnetic thoughtfulness, honesty, perspective, and songcraft. When they all meet in a room with instruments and microphones and the tape starts rolling, that’s when the lightning gets bottled to share with the world. The result, Signs Of Life, is sure to find the home with listeners as Buxton dreamed up; integral and ubiquitous in their every day like her Joni or Stevie. “Instead of being the artist’s, the song becomes yours when you listen to it—your song about your life.”

 

Signs Of Life Tracklisting:

Some Things Don’t Change

Only The Truth

Signs of Life

Like I Need You

By Myself

Little Bit Better

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Hear It Here - New Music From Sarah Buxton - "Only The Truth"

"It's time to let go. I have no plan. I have no help. I'm just releasing a song and clearing space for whatever wants to happens next." ~ Sarah Buxton on the new release of her new song "Only the Truth."

For Sarah Buxton, the last fifteen years have been a roller-coaster ride. The singer/songwriter has realized huge successes and at the same time has questioned at times where music would take her. Today, that journey aims to all points north with the release of a brand new independent song, "Only The Truth."

Buxton moved to Nashville following high school graduation both to attend Belmont University and follow her musical dreams and ambitions. The early 2000’s found her the lead singer of a southern rock band called Stoik Oak. But after that group called it quits- it was John Rich and others that encouraged her to find her country music voice and after singing back-up vocals from everyone from Kenny Rogers to Cowboy Troy, she landed her own record deal with Lyric Street Records back in 2006. Keith Urban recorded the Buxton co-write "Stupid Boy" on his album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing- which he took to #3 on the country charts in 2007. Buxton got her own self-titled album released in 2010 and chart four singles.

But with the exception of a side project titled Skyline Motel and a slew of hits written for other artists such as Gary Allan, The Band Perry, Chris Lane, Trisha Yearwood, Kelly Clarkson, Florida Georgia Line and more, we hadn't heard any new music from Sarah herself.

Until today...

Sarah Buxton and Friends Release Skyline Motel EP

Sarah Buxton, Kate York, Daniel Tashian, and Ian Fitchuk formed their quartet, Skyline Motel, in 2012 to create music on their own terms. Now, nearly two years later, the band has released their first EP. With a nod as much to Fleetwood Mac as to Nashville, it's truly great engaging songwriting from four very talented artists.

“Most of the singers in the band have been through the ringer with the label world and the music business in general,” said York to Music Row. “So the idea behind this whole project was just to make music for fun and on our terms. It has been nothing but fun since we started.”

“Skyline Motel started out as an idea that Kate had and would not let go!” Buxton teased.

“Years ago Daniel and I talked about how much we wanted to be in a Fleetwood Mac type band,” said York. “The idea for Skyline Motel came after meeting Sarah and turning in a song to my publisher, Carla Wallace, who said, ‘Who is this? Stevie Nicks and Christy McVie?’”

“There was no agenda that preceded the night that we wrote all the material,” said Fitchuk. “Everything since then has been a natural motion forward, an energy we’re just trying to enjoy.”

Buxton had a couple of mid-level hits of her own with "Space" and "Outside My Window," wrote "Stupid Boy" and "Put You In a Song" for Keith Urban and is the lovely vocals behind David Nail on "Let It Rain."  York has released three independent albums and has worked as an engineer and songwriter for over a decade in Nashville. Tashian has been a staff writer for Universal Music, Windswept Pacific/ Bug and is currently published by Big Yellow Dog Music in Nashville TN.  He was signed as an artist for Elektra records in the late 90′s and made one major label LP with T. Bone Burnett. Futchuk is another longtime Nashville grinder acting as a producer, writer, songwriter and musician for many years in town.

Skyline Motel EP Track Listing:
1. Language of Love
2. Skyline Motel
3. Sleep With Me
4. Feel Like Singing
5. Not About You

You can follow the band on Twitter at @skylinemotel