Gatlin Covers The Lumineers' 'Dead Sea' for Dualtone's 25th Anniversary Compilation
(MPG) When Gatlin signed to Dualtone Records last year, she posted a list of "goals + dreams" she wrote back in 2016 to her Instagram. On the five part list, she included "open for The Lumineers" and "sign record deal w/ Dualtone."
For the upcoming Dualtone 25th Anniversary compilation Keep Pressing On: 25 Years Of Dualtone, out December 4, it's fitting that Gatlin would cover "Dead Sea" by her longtime favorites The Lumineers. Her take is decidedly different from The Lumineers' more sparse original. Gatlin opts for echoing electric guitar, insistent synths and electronic pulses that give the song a more haunting, spectral feel.
"Dualtone 25!! What a special label that is made up of some of the best people in the music industry," says Gatlin. "Dualtone is a home where artists are believed in and fought for and I am incredibly lucky to be here. Since I was in high school, I've been a huge Lumineers fan so what a full circle moment to be able to cover "Dead Sea" for this record. I was covering it in coffee shops and open mics at 14 years old and now I got to make a version that is on an album with The Lumineers and so many other incredible artists I admire."
Keep Pressing On: 25 Years Of Dualtone is a 17-song collection of rarities and covers that brings together Dualtone artists past and present. Keep Pressing On includes The Lumineers, flipturn, Mt. Joy, Shakey Graves, Kathleen Edwards, Shovels & Rope and more in celebration of the label's enduring legacy and the artist-first vision established by Co-founder (ret.) Scott Robinson and the late President and Partner Paul Roper, who passed away in 2024.
The album was announced in September with the release of The Lumineers' new song "Isabelle Fly," and Jack Van Cleaf's cover of Kris Kristofferson's "Best of All Possible Worlds" which arrived alongside an official video directed by Kenna Salvant. Most recently, a Langhorne Slim released a memorable take on "What A Wonderful World," the Bob Thiele/George David Weiss composition made ubiquitous by Louis Armstrong,
Keep Pressing On marks the third anniversary compilation in Dualtone's history, following 2016's In Case You Missed It and 2021's Amerikinda: 20 Years Of Dualtone. While those collections celebrated the label's history in their own ways, Keep Pressing On arrives at a particularly meaningful moment, honoring Roper's legacy while looking toward the future. "They say if you want to succeed, don't follow in the footsteps of your heroes, but rather seek what they sought," says Dualtone General Manager and SVP of Artist Development Whitaker Elledge. "We're not trying to replicate what Scott and Paul built here. We're just trying to chase the same things they were after: meaningful art, genuine community, and sustainable careers for artists we believe in. June Carter Cash once told us to 'Press On,' and twenty-five years in, we intend to."
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