JAKE Bugg will release his fourth studio album, Hearts That Strain, on September 1 on Virgin/EMI.

In a change of direction, the 23-year-old Nottingham singer-songwriter recorded his follow-up to 2016's On My One with the American Sound Studio’s legendary house band, The Memphis Boys, in Nashville.

Gene Chrisman and Bobby Woods famously provided the chops on such pivotal records as Dusty Springfield's Dusty In Memphis and Elvis Presley's In The Ghetto and Suspicious Minds, after cutting their teeth in sessions with Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick.

"They’re old guys but they’re amazing," says Bugg. "It was ten to five and then that’s it. They'd pack up and we’d done two or three tunes. It was a mad vibe being from England and meeting these absolute legends and then cutting some tracks with them."

The Memphis Boys were not the only significant names on board. Hearts That Strain was produced by the Grammy Award-winning David Ferguson and Matt Sweeney, while the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach has collaborated with Bugg on How Soon The Dawn, the breezy lead-off single, and played on the shuffling rockabilly get-down I Can Burn Alone and In The Event Of My Demise too. Rising star Noah Cyrus, younger sister of Miley, shares the vocals on Waiting.

The full track listing will be How Soon The Dawn; Southern Rain; In The Event Of My Demise; This Time; Waiting; Man On The Stage; Hearts That Strain; I Can Burn Alone; Indigo Blue; Bigger Lover and Every Colour In The World.

Bugg will support the album release with 15 intimate solo acoustic shows, the only Yorkshire gig being at Hull City Hall on November 7. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9am at seetickets.com/tour/jake-bugg-solo-acoustic-tour