BACK AROUND AGAIN
New album from Portland Glam-Folk duo
Ned and Wendy the Band
Back Around Again
Back Around Again
By Ned and Wendy the Band
Release date: July 25, 2024
Genre: Glam-Folk
8 Tracks
Unsigned, Distributed by AWAL
Music & Lyrics by Jordan Plotner and Lindsey Plotner
(a.k.a. Ned and Wendy the Band)
Produced by Jordan Plotner,
co-produced by Lindsey Plotner
Artwork by Jordan Plotner & Lindsey Plotner
All rights reserved by Ned and Wendy the Band
“(As always), it knocks me out.
The music is truly heartening (heart-touching? Ah, you know, it just draws me in.)”
–– Peter Guralnick on Back Around Again
Guralnick is a Grammy-Winning Music Critic, Screenwriter & Author of prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll, and more
Back Around Again by Ned and Wendy the Band
Music video by Lindsey & Jordan Plotner
Drops Thursday, August 1
"I still don’t know what glam-folk is…but if it is used to describe folk music full of the wildness of the outdoors and the lush infusions of more ambient, indie sonics, music which is full of wit and wisdom and wonder, acoustic music which seems not to know any generic confines or demarcations, music which is scintillating and shimmering, heaven-sent yet also be full of the scent of the fresh earth and the woodland trails, then this is surely it.”
–– Dave Franklin, The Big Takeover
July 25, 2024
BACK AROUND AGAIN
The story behind the album
In December 2019, Lindsey Ferguson (living in New York)
and Jordan Plotner (living in Los Angeles)
met over the phone.
Introduced by a mutual friend and music producer,
the two artists made plans to collaborate remotely
on a few songs
and that would be that.
Except that it wasn’t...
Instead, what followed was a
surreal covid love story,
Jordan’s medical diagnosis and
spinal fusion surgery, Lindsey’s decision to move to Los Angeles to live with Jordan (who she didn’t meet in person until move in day,) the formation of a band, a marriage, and a chance decision to
move to Portland....
...all leading to the release of Back Around Again
Back Around Again,
the third album from
Ned and Wendy the Band,
captures the ups, downs, ins, and outs of moving to a new city,
beginning a new marriage,
finding a new community,
and realizing that, somehow,
this new road still leads back to the same place:
home.
About
Ned and Wendy the Band
Two manic musicians in love
on a mission to create joy, wonder, and kick ass music.
Ned and Wendy the Band is a Portland-based Glam-Folk duo - “glam-folk” being a made up term that the band and a friend accidentally coined at The Old Portland (and it just felt right).
Their 2021 musical documentary short film Welcome Home Ned and Wendy premiered at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as one of eight finalists in the Emerging Young Voices in Film Festival, and it went on to win Best Romance Film in the 2021 Los Angeles Film Awards, as well as official selection in Dumbo Film Festival, Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival, and Cambria Film Festival of Romance, Love, and Rom-coms.
Lindsey and Jordan are also the hosts of the radio show City Hums, providing a platform for the wildly raw and talented musicians of Portland and beyond - on KXRW Vancouver 99.9FM. Recently, Lindsey and Jordan journeyed up to Seattle as the official media sponsor of the Northwest Folklife Festival, where they hosted live interviews with Mary Eliza, Strange & the Familiars, and Jet Black Pearl. Other artists featured on past episodes include Trinity Jane & Michael Easley, That Loathsome Devil, and Exceptional Failures.
With a love of community and connection, and a penchant for creating songs that make you want to dance while crying, Ned and Wendy the Band are on a mission to create joy, wonder, and kick ass music.
BACK AROUND AGAIN
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nedandwendytheband@gmail.com
412-610-0408
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