Ty Freeman has been earning his stripes the hard way, on the streets of Liverpool, in bars from Hamburg to Zurich, and now in the studio with some of the finest musicians the Northwest has produced. Debut single “Dig For Gold” is out now, and it announces a genuinely compelling new voice in British roots rock.
Recorded at the legendary Kempston Street Studios in Liverpool, the track sits at the crossroads of Merseybeat spirit and American rock ‘n’ roll groove. Swampy, bluesy, and riding a loose, emotionally charged rhythm section, it carries the kind of tape-era feel that most modern recordings work hard to replicate and rarely achieve.
Freeman describes the track directly. “Raw, soulful and unfiltered, this track leans into a tape-era feel, live, loose and emotionally charged from start to finish.” That description nails it completely.
“Dig For Gold” is the lead track from Freeman’s debut EP ‘One Way Love’, out now via all major digital platforms. Produced by Chris Taylor, whose credits include The Coral, She Drew The Gun, and Bill Ryder-Jones, and mastered by Graeme Lynch, the EP features Ian Skelly and Paul Duffy of The Coral as the studio rhythm section, once Freeman’s childhood heroes and now his bandmates in the room.
That dynamic shaped the sessions in a profound way. “In the studio, my head can get five steps ahead, ideas firing everywhere. But Ian, Paul, and Chris grounded me. They helped us surf the chaos without losing the spark,” Freeman says. “I’d show them a song and within a few takes, no rehearsal, they’d nail it live in the room. Paul kept things anchored with melodic bass lines while Ian and I spoke our own language, ‘Beatles middle 8 into a Who-style bridge, then a CCR groove.'”
No click tracks. No polish. The sessions ran on instinct, precision, and the kind of lived-in energy that Freeman has been accumulating since he first started gigging guerrilla-style on the streets of Liverpool. Raised in foster care in Birkenhead, he found his direction through music, working his way from street corners to sold-out headline shows, including a 200-capacity sellout at Zurich’s Dynamo Werk 21.
‘One Way Love’ has already drawn support from Classic Rock Magazine, Louder Than War, and BBC Introducing. Previous singles “One Way Love,” “Monareen,” and “Better Man” established the emotional range that “Dig For Gold” now anchors with gritty confidence.
Freeman is the real thing, and ‘One Way Love’ makes that case without a moment’s hesitation.
‘One Way Love’ EP Tracklist:
- Dig For Gold
- Up In Lust
- One Way Love
- Monareen
- Better Man