ZACHARY WILLIAMS Shares LENA HEADEY Directed Music Video For Title Track

ZACHARY WILLIAMS (THE LONE BELLOW)  RELEASES TITLE TRACK OFF DIRTY CAMARO AHEAD OF DEBUT SOLO ALBUM OUT TOMORROW, OCT 22 MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTED BY LENA HEADEY (GAME OF THRONES)   FEATURING HEADEY, MARC MENCHACA (OZARK), TOBY HUSS (HALT AND CATCH FIRE) AND LIAM JAMES (THE WAY WAY BACK) WATCH HERE

Today, Zachary Williams (The Lone Bellow) has released a new single, “Dirty Camaro” and its companion music video directed by Game of Thrones star Lena Headey. Headey appears alongside famed character actor Toby Huss of Halt and Catch Fire, child star Liam James of The Way Way Back and Ozark actor Marc Menchaca who has also appeared in music videos for The Lone Bellow and wrote Williams’ album liner notes. WATCH HERE.  Zachary Williams on the “Dirty Camaro” video Marc and I have been like brothers sense the day we met in NYC. He’s probably attended every single little show I’ve ever had in that city.. going back 15 years. He’s a wild wide open hearted man with a big hug and a very slow story telling mind. He has always inspired me.. and he’s in love.. him and Lena are like that song “like two sparrows in a hurricane”. Watching them with each other is a beautiful thing. Obviously, I couldn’t believe it when they agreed to write, produce, and star in this video. What Lena came up with was so wild and glorious.. especially watching them make it. It was the longest day of creative hard work I had ever witnessed. We filmed it at my good buddy Will Guidara and Christina Tosi’s barn. There was so much joy and hospitality happening around the scenes being shot that I can feel it all when I watch it.

“Dirty Camaro” is the title track off of Williams’ first ever solo effort, out tomorrow, Friday, October 22nd via Dultone. The album was produced by Robert Ellis and Josh Block at Niles City Sound in Fort Worth, TX and features Anderson East, John Paul White, Ashley Monroe and Thad Cockrell and the gospel group Settles Connection.He has also shared album tracks “Can’t Tell The Difference,” featuring singer-songwriters Anderson East & John Paul White, “Game For Guessing” which includes an appearance from the album’s producer, Texas singer-songwriter Robert Ellis and his duet with Monroe - “Her Picture.” Fans can pre-order Dirty Camaro today and limited edition vinyl, CD, and merch available via Dualtone. Zachary Williams is best known as ⅓ of the Nashville-based supergroup The Lone Bellow. All born in the South, the three members met while living in Brooklyn and quickly found that in addition to having commonality in their upbringing, they all had wildly potent voices, a knack for harmonies and a desire to write in the great Southern story-telling tradition - songs about heartbreak and struggles and the human condition. The Lone Bellow has released five studio albums with one produced by Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Sturgil Simpson) and two produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner (Taylor Swift, Sharon Van Etten), including their most recent Half Moon Light.

Photo Credit: Eric Ryan Anderson

The pursuit of music wasn’t always a fore drawn conclusion for Williams, rather it was the colossal hammer of fate and its aftermath that led him there. He had married his childhood best friend early (as kids in the South do), and soon after their life began, barely adults themselves Stacy suffered a terrible accident falling from her horse. Paralysis was the diagnosis and Williams’ immediate answer was movement - move to New York City, move to follow their dreams, spiritually walk right out of that place. Miraculously, Stacy eventually was able to walk again but their plans were in place. Williams began playing open mics at Rockwood Music Hall, gathering a fervent fan-base leading to Bowery Ballroom sell-outs before abandoning his solo-career for The Lone Bellow. Dirty Camaro serves as a book end to that pursuit, a return to unfinished business and the solo album he always meant to write. He honors Stacy in the song “Anything” singing, “you were my first favorite day, first dream that didn't let me sleep, first time I ever felt this way. You were my first anything.” Dirty Camaro is filled with lush string arrangements, vaudevillian piano, touches of honky tonk, saxophones and a wink that often isn’t found in The Lone Bellow’s earnest music. It’s lyrically reminiscent of Randy Newman and John Prine and its Williams self-effacing sense of humour that drives and entertains throughout. It's clear that Williams has lived enough life to know he knows nothing. And his musings on the meaning of it all is an admixture of the people you love and the scenes that have amused you.  What stands out most in Zachary Williams’ Dirty Camaro is its dynamism and its musical dynamics. Each song is its own universe. There are quieter moments in the ballad “Elizabeth” and in the scorned-lover narrative duet “Her Picture” with Ashley Monroe. There are burn-the-house-down revivals (“That’s Why I Still Sleep With The Lights On”), gospel meditations (“Road Over That Mountain” featuring Settles Connection), Hank Williams Jr. style bar-band tracks (“Dirty Camaro”) and lounge-singer longings (“Airplane”). All of it is quilted together with Williams’ phenomenal access to his emotional interior and it's buoyed by a voice that fans have been moved by for years. It hits different here, untethered and free to explore all the versions of himself he’s been ever since that moment he found himself, by her hospital bed.

Zachary Williams is currently on tour with The Lone Bellow. Solo tour dates to be announced soon. The Lone Bellow Tour Oct 01 - Stages Music Arts - Cockeysville, MD Oct 03 - Rams Head On Stage - Annapolis, MD Oct 07 - Fall for Greenville - Greenville, SC Oct 14 - The 04 Center - Austin, TX Oct 15 - The 04 Center - Austin, TX Oct 16 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX Oct 17 - The Heights Theater - Houston, TX Oct 19 - Acadiana Center for the Arts - Lafayette, LA Nov 04 - Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, MN Nov 05 - Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI Nov 06 - Shank Hall - Milwaukee, WI Nov 07 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL Nov 08 - The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI Nov 10 - Taft Theatre - Cincinnati, OH Nov 11 - Asbury Hall Babeville - Buffalo, NY Nov 12 - Center for the Arts of Homer - Homer, NY Nov 13 - Gateway City Arts - Holyoke, MA Nov 15 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA Nov 16 - Webster Hall - New York, NY Nov 17 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA Nov 18 - Troy Savings Bank Music Hall - Troy, NY Nov 19 - Vogel Theatre - Red Bank, NJ Nov 20 - 9:30 Club - Washington D.C. Nov 21 - Haw River Ballroom - Saxapahaw, NC