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Orville Peck Announces New Show Pony EP, Shares New Video: Watch

“No Glory in the West” is the second track on the masked country singer’s Columbia Records debut

By Allison Hussey | Pitchfork | May 29, 2020

Orville Peck has announced a new EP titled Show Pony. It’s out June 12 via Columbia Records, marking his first release for the label. Orville Peck has also shared the music video for his new track “No Glory in the West.” The Isaiah Seret–directed visual finds Peck taking his horse across a snowy landscape. Watch below.

Show Pony includes “Summertime,” which Orville Peck shared earlier this year. There’s also a cover of Bobbie Gentry’s classic country tune “Fancy” and “Legends Never Die,” a duet with Shania Twain. Peck released his debut album Pony on Sub Pop last year.

Show Pony EP:

01 Summertime
02 No Glory in the West
03 Drive Me, Crazy
04 Kids
05 Legends Never Die (with Shania Twain)
06 Fancy

https://pitchfork.com/news/orville-peck-announces-new-show-pony-ep-shares-new-video-watch/

Show Pony - Orville Peck

‘Show Pony’ Orville Peck’s brand new 6 track EP will come out via Peck's new label home of Columbia. It will be the follow-up to last year's hugely successful debut, Pony. He explained in a statement:

"I loved my experience with Pony. However, Show Pony is a more confident perspective and allows me to share even more both lyrically and musically. Like all country albums, Show Pony is a little collection of stories – some sad, some happy – and I am excited for people to hear it. Working with Shania was a dream come true, her music made me feel empowered as a kid and was a huge influence on me."

https://www.roughtrade.com/us/orville-peck/show-pony

It doesn't look like Orville Peck's new 6-song EP Show Pony (featuring a duet with Shania) will be released June 12. According to Apple Music/iTunes, the release date has been pushed back to December 31.

Amazon also has the release date now set for December 31.

https://www.amazon.com/Show-Pony-Orville-Peck/dp/B08922WQZ9

Orville just posted the EP will now be released in July.

Orville Peck @orvillepeck

Hey gang, I know it’s only two days away but I’ve decided to push the release of my new EP ‘Show Pony’ to July. We’re undergoing a huge overdue worldwide transformation thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement and that is mainly what I want to put my focus on at the moment. The momentum is currently so strong, and it needs to keep going in order to dismantle the injustices of oppression, so if your voice hasn’t been heard yet just use it, or walk out and hear the protesters, and if you’re scared, tell them Orville sent you! Last week, thanks to the help of some lovely people we raised close to $37k, and this week I’ll be performing a little surprise from the EP at @wynwoodpride where we’re hoping to raise $100k. Lots of great performers, so if you guys like what you see, remember to tip- and y’all, even if you can’t tip, watching to actively educate yourself is also a win for everyone. Love you all for being kind people and I can’t wait for you to hear the album - but lets use this month to get our sh*t in order because this is only the start of the marathon for equality💕

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQoLKUgaS-/

11:35 AM ET - 10 Jun 20

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Why Orville Peck Is the Unconventional Best New Artist Pick the Grammys Need

By Joe Lynch | Billboard | June 15, 2020

In January, Orville Peck was seated at his first Grammy Awards after walking the red carpet with his friend Diplo. Peck recalls sitting “five rows from the front having the time of my life when I hear someone calling my name during the commercial break. I turn around, and Shania Twain is running down the aisle.”

By mid-March, the queer troubadour was recording a duet with Twain at her Las Vegas ranch just before the pandemic forced a lockdown. The session yielded the rollicking track “Legends Never Die” from Peck’s upcoming EP, Show Pony, out this July on Columbia. “I’ve been the biggest Shania fan my whole life, and she was literally the last person I got to hang out with before [self-isolating],” he says over Zoom, calling from his sunny Los Angeles apartment. Even in the comfort of his own home, he’s wearing his ever-present Lone Ranger disguise that shields his identity; today, it’s in the form of black tassels dangling down from his mask. (Peck keeps his real name, age and most other personal details private.)

Earning co-signs from Diplo and Twain speaks to the wide-ranging appeal of Peck, whose sonorous voice has garnered comparisons to Johnny Cash’s baritone and whose lyrics evoke the widescreen Westerns of old Hollywood. Peck’s self-produced debut album, Pony, arrived in March 2019 on Sub Pop, but by that December, he signed a new recording contract with Columbia. Since, he has performed the album’s breakout track, “Dead of Night,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!; was booked for first-time slots at Coachella and Stagecoach (both of which are postponed); and is slated to open for labelmate Harry Styles’ Harryween shows in 2021 (postponed from Oct. 2020).

Now, following a buzzy career launch and while gearing up for the release of his major-label debut, which should arrive before the Grammys’ eligibility period ends, Peck could be a dark horse contender for best new artist at the 2021 ceremony. His team submitted him in two Americana categories last year to no avail, but with backing from Columbia this time — which at the 2020 ceremony had Lil Nas X and Rosalía up for best new artist — there could be a similar push for Peck. “Having some recognition on a level like that?” he says. “Anybody would be lying to say they would not be thrilled.”

Peck always knew he wanted to perform, feeling “drawn to the theatricality of country stars” from the 1970s. “Gram Parsons used to wear the most incredible Nudie suits — Liberace could never,” he says. “Porter Wagoner came off fairly conservative [but wore] crazy bedazzled outfits ... while singing about holding back tears and heartbreak. The combination of all those things to me is a gay person’s dream. It’s drama. It’s bold.” And though he says he has been “making music practically my whole life,” it wasn’t until the late-2010s birth of his Peck persona in Toronto that he went all-in on country. “I had it ingrained that I had to work toward something that was employable or acceptable,” he says. “It’s the opposite of what you need to do as an artist. ”Peck started creating his own brand of queer camp for the Wild West.

Show Pony continues the narrative, but with added “dark flair” best heard on his gender-bending reinvention of “Fancy,” the 1969 feminist anthem by Bobbie Gentry. The EP’s visuals are similarly theatrical: In the clip for lead single “Summertime,” he trades his leather jacket for a flower-laden shirt after getting pinned down by vines with a mind of their own; meanwhile, “No Glory in the West” depicts Peck as a solitary cowboy dancing around a bonfire in the snow-covered mountains. It’s a sublime mixture of the heartfelt and the ridiculous that could only arrive through a distinctly queer lens. (As novelist Christopher Isherwood wrote about camp in 1954: “You can’t camp about something you don’t take seriously. You’re not making fun of it, you’re making fun out of it.”) Peck is so committed that he even caked his wall with old-timey “Wanted” and “Reward” posters ahead of a virtual Oculus gig.

“Without sounding cliché and pretentious, I genuinely try to make music that is important to me,” he says. “As long as the sincerity is there, it gives you the freedom to play it any way you want. It allows you to take it to a world of camp or theatricality.”

It has paid off so far, as his 35 million total U.S. streams (according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data) prove, but will it translate to a Grammy nod? A country act hasn’t won best new artist since Zac Brown Band in 2010, but Peck’s appreciation for and commitment to the genre’s traditional roots might get him there — or at least help round out those in the running. Either way, it’s nothing Peck is too hung up about. As he says, creating his persona “was the first step toward being the artist I always wanted to be.”

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/9400526/orville-peck-best-new-artist-grammys-show-pony-interview

Orville performed "No Glory In The West" from his new EP for CMT today. At the end of the performance he said "You can pick up my new EP in August." So apparently Show Pony has been pushed back again.

This could also possibly delay the single release of his duet with Shania ("Legends Never Die") supposedly due out in mid July.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmRTNXxxhac

Orville Peck @orvillepeck

hey everybody! Just got word that the official release date for ‘Show Pony’ will be Aug 14th. I wrote a duet for it and somehow wrangled one of my all time country music icons for it. Genuinely this is a dream come true. More soon! #letsgogirls … It's a bop.

1:12 PM ET - 14 Jul 20

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Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Legends Never Die 🔥🤠 Out August 14th on @orvillepeck’s EP ‘Show Pony'.

1:32 PM ET - 14 Jul 20

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

Well the song is a new song, Yes Shania didn't write it but if she performs it on Good Morning America then I'll be excited. I can wait a few more months for an album from her. He has a Johnny Cash vibe and it will be interesting too see how these two sound together. 

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Yeehaw 😏 (picture taken by Fred)

4:47 PM ET - 25 Jul 20

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Either Shania and Orville Peck are making a music video (most likely) for their duet "Legends Never Die" or they are recording a performance for Shania's appearance on "Good Morning America" on August 14. Orville's new 6-song EP Show Pony will be released the same day. If it is in fact a music video, does this confirm Shania will be debuting a new song of her own on "GMA"?

There’s a method to Orville Peck’s maskness

By Brad Wheeler | The Globe and Mail | August 11, 2020

Orville Peck was at the Grammy telecast earlier this year when a woman yelled his name during a commercial break. Peck turned around to see none other than Shania Twain coming his way. The country music icon got to Peck’s seat, hoisted him in her arms and hugged him. She’s a fan – not nearly the only one.

Peck stands out in the country music crowd. The crooner, with a moody baritone, substantial indie-music cred and a storyteller’s stone-lonesome heart, is mysterious, gay and never appears in public without his trademark tassled masks. Nowadays everyone and their dog is wearing a mask, but nobody pulls it off with the panache of the Canadian balladeer now based in Los Angeles.

Following up on the out-of-nowhere success of his 2019 debut album, Pony, Peck releases a new EP on Friday, which comes with a duet with his heroine/admirer Twain. The album is ironically called Show Pony, a term used to describe a person who appears to perform well, but has no actual ability. By phone, Peck spoke to The Globe and Mail about persons, personas and the twain they meet, and the Twain he met. 

Orville Peck, what’s your deal?

I’m a country and western artist who likes to sing songs about myself with the sincerity that is required in the genre and in a way that is perceived as new and different and that maybe challenges the status quo.

And what about the fancy masks you wear? Do you wear them to remove yourself from the equation, so as to let the songs stand on their own?

That’s one of the byproducts, for sure. It’s not the main intention though. What I love about country music is that it is very much at the crossroads of sincerity and performance. I think that’s a beautiful space to create art in. You can be as bold and dramatic and theatrical as you want, but you get away with it because all of it is steeped in sincerity. I like to work from that place.

But with the performative aspects, don’t you risk people questioning your sincerity?

I’ve gotten questions like that. But at the end of the day it isn’t my job to answer that for people. I spend all my effort trying to make art that I think I would enjoy and that I can feel proud of, because it’s from a genuine place. I can’t also worry whether other people see that or not. That’s a battle you’re probably going to lose at some point.

Any other intentions with your look?

I like things that are not just spoon-fed to me. I grew up loving artists like David Bowie and Freddie Mercury and Elton John. These are prolific artists who created profound lyrics and songs, but also looked like they were from outer space. You can do both those things.

Clearly one person who doesn’t question your sincerity is Shania Twain, who you duet with on "Legends Never Die" on your new EP Show Pony. How did that come together?

I’d heard that she was a fan of mine. My first reaction was that I didn’t think that was possible. Maybe because I’m a bit of a cynic. But if she even knew I existed, I had the inspiration to write a song written off what I thought was a rumour that she liked me. So, I wrote it and sent it off to her management.

Shania must get a dozen of such requests a day, though.

Right. We went back and forth on it with her management for awhile, and it felt like it wouldn’t be possible. But then I met her at the Grammys and she told me how much she loved me and how much she loved my last album and my voice and how much she loved the song I wrote for her. Two months or so later, we were sitting at her ranch in Las Vegas riding her horses and working on the song together. She was actually the last person I hung out with before the quarantine started.

So many collaborations are done remotely. It’s quite something that you got to do it in person.

I’m such a fan of collaborations. I love that Shania and I got to have what I felt like was a very thrilling, adventurous road to this song. It felt very much in keeping with the spirit of the collaborations that are so rich in the history of country music.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/article-theres-a-method-to-orville-pecks-maskness/

Orville Peck @orvillepeck

Come join me here tomorrow at midnight ET (9pm pacific) for the premiere of #LegendsNeverDieVideo featuring @shaniatwain and a few other legends. See y’all then!

Promo - https://twitter.com/orvillepeck/status/1293660320641069056

5:27 PM ET - 12 Aug 20

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Tommy wrote:

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Two months or so later, we were sitting at her ranch in Las Vegas riding her horses and working on the song together. She was actually the last person I hung out with before the quarantine started.

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 Here Peck says of the ranch being located in Las Vegas. It's kind of confusing really as there were mentions that she had spent self-isolation period somewhere in Canada, weren't there? So where's the ranch?

The song is available on iTunes in Australia and New Zealand. Here is an official preview clip someone posted on Twitter. I've heard the entire song. I like it!!! I hear Lady Gaga's "You And I" in the song.

http://twitter.com/aleexevansj/status/1293897685423083521

I've bought the song and I liked it very much. I'd like to know who's the producer because I wouldn't mind if she recorded something in that style for her own. Awersome really. As czm888, I wasn't expecting anything special, because I wasn't familiar with Orville at all and he seems a little bit weird with the mask. But the song is awersome. It's gonna be on repeat all day!

-- Edited by Tanya on Thursday 13th of August 2020 05:42:36 PM

Love the song and love the video! Truly... this surpassed my expectations!

I love the song! I love the video! Shania is looking better than ever! 

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Legends Never Die is out now! I'm flattered that @OrvillePeck thought of me for this song, the whole EP is amazing so make sure you check it out !

1:00 PM ET - 14 Aug 20

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

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Shania posted an Instagram clip of her and Orville recording "Legends Never Die".

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4Cxg4hrpz/

https://twitter.com/MuzikGuy94/status/1294340048314408963

Will the song be sent too country radio here in the United States and Canada? Would love to request it

Shania is #3.

Orville Peck Favorite Fashion Moments in Country Music | MTV News

Orville Peck sits down with MTV News to share his five favorite fashion moments in country music, like Gram Parsons's Nudie suits and Dolly Parton's 'Here You Come Again' look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoGXgXNI8a0

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Shania clip only with subtitles

.@orvillepeck just released his #LegendsNeverDieVideo with @ShaniaTwain. He told us how her leopard print look in "That Don't Impress Me Much" was an awakening for the LGBTQ community, and shared his top 5 favorite country fashion moments.

https://twitter.com/MTVNEWS/status/1294319732166995968