Video: Nikki Lane, ‘Highway Queen’
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Country pop outlaw Nikki Lane will release her third album, “Highway Queen,” on Feb. 17 through New West Records. Dan Auerbach produced 2014’s “All or Nothin’,” and Dave Cobb did her 2011 debut, “Walk of Shame,” but “Highway Queen” finds the Greenville, S.C., native taking the reins. She co-produced the record with musician/boyfriend Jonathan Tyler at Matt Pence’s Echo Lab Studio in Denton, Texas, and finished it at Club Roar in Nashville, with engineer Collin Dupuis. The band on “Highway Queen” features the Texas Gentlemen, a rotating group of musicians from all over the States led by Beau Patrick Bedford.
While the matching “777” tattoo she shares with Tyler indicates she’s happy in love at the moment, Lane’s album traces a few milestone moments in her life, from failed marriage (“Forever Lasts Forever”) to finding love again (“Jackpot”). An overarching theme of gambling in love, life and music stretches across the album, with Lane taking the wheel, as seen in the title track’s video where she crushes cars with a monster truck and sings, “You can tie her down, you can bottle lightning, but the highway queen don’t need no king.”
||| Watch: “Highway Queen”
||| Live: Nikki Lane performs on April 29 at Stagecoach Festival in Indio, Calif.
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