Biography

Though she seems to spend more time in Europe these days, Devon Sproule still calls Charlottesville, Virginia home. Her newest collection of songs, Don’t Hurry for Heaven, produced by songwriter and husband Paul Curreri and featuring a cameo by fellow-Virginian Jesse Winchester, will be released by Black Hen Records in the US and Canada on March 16th. Already released in the UK, Don't Hurry for Heaven was given four stars by both Mojo ("what storytelling is all about") and Uncut Magazine ("lacing folk, country and swing into an gorgeously inviting whole").


Sproule's previous effort, 2007’s Keep Your Silver Shined was called “The sexiest, sultriest southern album since Lucinda’s “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” by Paste Magazine and featured singing from another Virginia-native, Mary Chapin Carpenter. Supporting the record, Sproule toured with Woodstock legend Richie Havens, Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner, and supported back-to-back nights in London with Lucinda Williams. Sproule’s breakout record, Upstate Songs, was included in Rolling Stone's Critics Top Albums of 2003. In December 2009 at New York's Lincoln Center, Sproule was awarded the prestigious Sammy Cahn Award for lyric writing. She was the first American to grace the cover of fRoots in the new millennium, and her appearance on England’s trend-setting Later...With Jools Holland cocked the ears of fans and industry alike, informing them that yes, her surname does indeed rhyme with “rock ‘n roll.”