Damien Jurado unveils tender new track "Lincoln"

"Lincoln" arrives shortly after first single "South", which arrived with the announcement of Jurado's new record that follows on from 2018's The Horizon Just Laughed.

On the new single, Jurado explains, ""Lincoln", written in 1998, was originally slated for my third album not yet titled, Ghost of David. I had 13 songs recorded for the album onto a newly purchased digital 8-track machine. And, when the day came to mix the finished album, an error done on my part was made, erasing everything. Now under a deadline with the label to turn in a new album, I came up with the bright idea to scrap every song I had written for the album and start anew. All original material was written, and then recorded in a period of less than a week for Ghost of David."

He adds, "Years later, I would come across the only recorded demo I had made for the original album on a cassette. This song was "Lincoln". Over the years I considered "Lincoln" for many of my albums, but the song just couldn’t find the proper place to land. That was until I went in to record my latest album, In the Shape of a Storm. It felt not only fitting to put it on the record, but to have it be the opening song."

Jurado's forthcoming record is an acoustic one, recorded in just two hours at a studio in California, with only occasional contributions from Josh Gordon. Jurado says, "It just felt like it was time".