IN March 2020 Melbourne-raised troubadour Jordie Lane faced storms on multiple fronts. Login or signup to continue reading First there was the literal storm as a deadly EF-3 tornado - which reached wind speeds of 266 kilometres per hour - ripped through the northern suburbs of Nashville, coming frightening close to Lane's home. The tornado killed five people, injured 220 and caused US $1.
5 billion in damage. "Our house was pretty much untouched, except for all of the paintings and picture frames on the walls all blew off with the air pressure that comes with a tornado," Lane remembers this week from Melbourne. "How close it was to us was quite a shock.
It was a EF-3 tornado, a real heavy big one. It was some four to five blocks wide in diameter and we were right on the tail of one of the edges of it. "The very next street from ours got completely bulldozed by this tornado.
" After spending a week without electricity, Lane, his partner and collaborator Clare Reynolds and their dog Tassie moved back home only and for the world to shut down the following day due the figurative storm that was the COVID-19 pandemic. The confluence of the tornado and COVID left Lane dealing with an emotional storm as he became gripped with anxiety. A year on songs began to emerge which would form the basis of his album Tropical Depression , his first original studio release since 2018.
It sounds cheesy, but it's the metaphor of the storm brewing inside of you. "The album is where extreme weather and.