Tag: Richmond Fontaine

Interview | No time for nostalgia: Willy Vlautin on the road to the end of the road with Richmond Fontaine

If Willy Vlautin were a nostalgic man, he might be starting to get emotional about now. If Vlautin strolled down memory lane he might prepare for Richmond Fontaine’s final ever live shows thinking about their first. But if Vlautin were…

Live | Richmond Fontaine @ Birmingham Hare & Hounds

The last Richmond Fontaine concert I went to a decade ago saw their set sabotaged by stage monitors blowing, leaving the band battling in vain to hear their own instruments. I’d not really given them a second thought since but…

Record Store Day | Shopping Guide K-Z

In case you hadn’t gathered, Saturday is Record Store Day. The A-J section of our pick of the 500+ special releases is here, and now for the rest of the alphabet. All those caveats about the prices being a guide…

Album | Richmond Fontaine – You Can’t Go Back If There is Nothing to Go Back To

Richmond Fontaine are back. After forming the Delines and releasing Colfax in 2014, Willy Vlautin returns with Richmond Fontaine’s tried and trusted recipe. It’s a winning formula, and even if this new record contains few surprises, that’s not going to…

Album | The Delines – Colfax

Three years ago, the progression of Willy Vlautin’s songwriting reached its logical conclusion with the ambitious ‘musical novel’ The High Country, a concept album in which Vlautin sought to combine his increasingly successful literary career with his first love, music.…

Interview | Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin

Vlautin, left, performs with Richmond Fontaine in Leeds “I’m not a huge fan of concept records,” says Willy Vlautin, the frontman and songwriter of Richmond Fontaine, who have just released, well, a concept album. The High Country is described as…

Album | Richmond Fontaine – The High Country

A simple but profound truth of gambling is that when you play for big stakes, the potential to lose heavily is sometimes obscured by the possibility of winning big. On Richmond Fontaine’s 10th album, frontman Willy Vlautin has set the…