The Teskey Brothers - The Winding Way

The Winding Way is the third studio album by Australian blues and soul band The Teskey Brothers, released in June 2023 via Ivy League and Decca Records.

Four years after the boys from Warrandyte’s globe-conquering second album, Run Home Slow (2019), the artistic vision of Josh and his brother Sam is more defined than ever. The Winding Way is a bigger and more adventurous sounding record than The Teskey Brothers’ first two albums - but while it’s a more studio-oriented release, each track is bursting with life and full of surprises.

The album was recorded in Sydney with producer Eric J Dubowsky. About the collaboration, Sam Teskey said, "We didn't want to go for a producer that was too close to our genre, we just wanted to branch out a bit and try to explore someone who was a bit down a different avenue”.

Run Home Slow was a colossal success by anyone’s standards, reaching #2 on the ARIA charts, winning 3 ARIA Awards and saw Sam Teskey earn a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album - all watering the grass for sold-out headline tours across the world. The Teskey Brothers performed high-profile sets at Bluesfest, Bonnaroo and Japan’s Fuji Rock, and appeared on US network TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live! More significantly, Run Home Slow fulfilled the promise of their debut record, 2017’s Half Mile Harvest, cementing The Teskey Brothers as a classy modern band with an appetite for classic blues, soul and R&B music.

The Teskey Brothers navigated the Covid shutdown with reasonable aplomb, releasing two live albums, the first of which, 2020’s Live at the Forum, was their first #1 ARIA charting. Both Josh and Sam stretched their legs with a couple of solo records before returning to write and record The Winding Way, a truly remarkable collection honouring Josh and Sam’s roots, while looking to the future.

This album is a limited edition on 180 gram white coloured vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with a 16 page booklet, pressed in Australia via Ivy League.