WEREN'T Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton once in The Be Good Tanyas together? Indeed they were, first joining forces 15 years ago, and now they are re-uniting for a worldwide tour and new studio album in 2017.

"Their new project, as always, is a page from the big book of North Americana and outsider folk," says Please Please You promoter Joe Coates, who brings the duo to York for an 8pm gig in The Basement at City Screen on January 20.

Holland grew up in Texas and by her teens was performing as a travelling musician. In the late 1990s, she called San Francisco home before making her way to Canada, where she co-founded the Tanyas with Vancouver singer-songwriter Parton.

Parton had spent her post-high school years on the road with her guitar, drawing inspiration from visits to the southern United States, where she spent time living in New Orleans, Holland's ancestral home.

After contributing to the Tanyas’ Blue Horse album, Holland moved back to San Francisco while Parton continued to tour and record with the group until a serious car accident took her off the road in 2012. Now comes this new creative incarnation that will combine newly written originals with fresh arrangements of The Be Good Tanyas material and songs from their solo catalogues.

Support act Reuben Hollebon will be promoting his debut album, Terminal Nostalgia, a record as notable for his weightless falsetto as much as for lyrics that address the afterlife, the power of nature, and the multiplicity of selves that lurk within us all.

Tickets cost £15 from The Inkwell in Gillygate, York, or Jumbo Records, Leeds, or at pleasepleaseyou.com