The Delines

The idea for The Delines came after Willy Vlautin of the band Richmond Fontaine heard singer Amy Boone (The Damnations) sing one single ballad. He was so moved by her voice that he secretly wrote songs with her in mind for over a year before approaching her to start a new band.

Luckily for all concerned, she liked what she heard and The Delines were formed, with Fontaine’s Sean Oldham on drums, Freddie Trujillo on bass, Vlautin on guitar and multi-instrumentalist Cory Gray on keyboards and horns.

Vlautin himself is no stranger to critical acclaim in the US, UK and mainland Europe, enjoying cult success and rave reviews from the New York Times, Washington Post, Uncut, MOJO, Hot Press, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal and more, as both a novelist (with seven books under his belt) and as the former frontman and songwriter for the Americana outfit Richmond Fontaine (who made eleven studio albums). Three of his novels have been turned into feature films: The Motel Life, Lean on Pete and the upcoming Netflix movie The Night Always Comes (starring Vanessa Kirby). Fellow writer Ursula K. Le Guin stated that “Willy Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing. An unsentimental Steinbeck, a heartbroken Haruf, Willy Vlautin tells us who really lives now in our America, our city in ruins.”