Local Artist Martin Devaney to release 8th Studio Album
Veteran St. Paul songwriter Martin Devaney returns with his eighth solo album – and 10th overall – Blueprint for a Ghost. The first release bearing his name since 2018’s Plaid on Plaid after a detour with his pandemic project Folios, Blueprint marks a return to form for Devaney, who worked with some old familiar friends to a craft warm bed of sound on which to lay his lyrical and literate tunes.
Blueprint for a Ghost was recorded primarily in September 2023 at Sparta Sound in Sparta, Minnesota with Rich Mattson (Minnesota songwriting legend and producer of Devaney’s House of Rust) and finished with Tom Herbers (Cactus Blossoms, Charlie Parr), who also mixed the record. Herbers worked most recently with Devaney on his Folios releases, but their collaborations go back to Devaney’s Somebody Somewhere (2002).
Rounding out the reunions are the band members themselves: Original guitar player Josh Peterson (Heiruspecs) and long-time bass player Matt Palin have returned to the lineup, along with drummer Ryan Lovan, who Devaney played with in Roma Di Luna. Guests on the album besides Mattson include Germaine Gemberling on vocals, AJ Srubas on fiddle, and Pete Sands (who played on the first three Devaney records) on various keyboards.
Blueprint for a Ghost will be available digitally on all streaming services on Friday, December 6 and on limited vinyl and CD in early December.
Devaney and Friends will celebrate the album release Thursday, December 19 at the White Squirrel Bar in St. Paul, MN with guests Mike Gunther and the Total Crapshoot. Music at 8 p.m.
Learn more and listen to Martin’s work at martindevaney.com.
