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If you stop by this website with any regularity, there’s a good chance you’ve heard some music with Kevin Copeland in the credits. The Vermont\/NYC producer has worked on albums by artists such as Hannah Frances, Allegra Krieger, Lily Seabird, and Lamplight \u2014 a smattering of the best indie folk-rock on the Eastern seaboard \u2014 and his own former band the Big Net<\/a> accomplished great things within that aesthetic range.<\/p>\n Next month Copeland will release Only Love Songs<\/em>, his debut solo album. New single “Hotel Bar,” out today, is a prime slice of melancholic roots rock, buoyed by the requisite pedal steel, some tasty low-end guitar work, and an opening lyrical passage that snuck up on me: “I was down at the hotel bar\/ Trying to clear out my mind\/ I like to think that I’m suffering\/ But I know I’m doing just fine\/ You like to think that you’re suffering\/ But you know you’re doing just fine.” Wilco fans will almost certainly dig this.<\/p>\n Watch Ian Hatcher-Williams’ video for “Hotel Bar” below, where you’ll also hear prior single “Stay.”<\/p>\n