LEWIS PUGH, guitarist and frontman with Leeds rockabillies The Burner Band, returns this Spring with a new solo album.
Following on from 2024's Bullets For Bread, Heretics & Heritage was produced and mainly played by multi-instrumentalist Pugh, drawing on folk, country, bluegrass and punk influence, while the lyrics were inspired by social history, including songs about Joan Little, an African-American woman tried and acquitted of murder in the mid-70s, and Irish suffragist Anna Haslam.
Raised by his musician parents on to the UK folk and bluegrass festival circuit, Pugh spent much of his teens and twenties engrossed in the Leeds punk and metal scenes in various bands, notably the Visible Noise-signed The Plight, touring with the likes of Gallows, Converge, Poison The Well and Cancer Bats. He's also lent his talents to a Grammy-nominated recording by Jason Ringenberg and Hey! Hello!'s Victoria Liedtke.
Trailed by a lyric video for his version of the 19th Century Suffolk murder ballad 'The Ballad Of Maria Marten', Heretics & Heritage is set for release through Shedload Records on 16 April, and is available to pre-order here.
Lewis has several dates lined up, including a London show at What's Cookin' as special guest to Swill from The Men They Couldn't Hang. Full dates are...
Feb 12 - Topic Folk Club, Bradford*
Feb 19 - Victoria Inn, Derby
Feb 20 - Nether Edge Bowling Club, Sheffield*
Mar 8 - Red Shed, Wakefield
Mar 11 - What's Cookin’, Leytonstone, London (w/Swill Odgers)
Mar 12 - Black Swan Folk Club, York*
Mar 22 - The Wynd Craft & Beer, Marske
Apr 11 - Beef Stock, Boom, Leeds
Apr 13 - The Grove, Leeds*
Apr 18 – St Saviour’s Community Hall, Retford*
Apr 23 - Fox and Newt, Leeds (w/Gypsy Pistoloros)
*w/Serious Sam Barrett & David Broad