“Low-key R&B legend" Eddie Chacon made an indelible mark in popular music as half of the duo Charles & Eddie, whose 1992 single “Would I Lie to You” was a number one hit heard around the world. The group’s 4-million-records-sold rocket to the stars lasted a few years, and Eddie spent the next couple of decades carving out a career as a photographer and creative director. He returned to music in 2020 in collaboration with John Carroll Kirby, and signed to Stones Throw Records in 2022.

Eddie Chacon is acclaimed for his thoughtful strain of R&B, musing on themes of mortality, failure, and growth. On Lay Low, his third solo album and second for Stones Throw, he delves into the grief that attended the loss of his mother, Patricia. The albumwas recorded over two years in Nick Hakim’s Brooklyn studio, with Hakim helping build an intuitive framework for Chacon’s songs of love and letting go.

On this occasion, Eddie will be accompanied by increasingly ...

“Low-key R&B legend" Eddie Chacon made an indelible mark in popular music as half of the duo Charles & Eddie, whose 1992 single “Would I Lie to You” was a number one hit heard around the world. The group’s 4-million-records-sold rocket to the stars lasted a few years, and Eddie spent the next couple of decades carving out a career as a photographer and creative director. He returned to music in 2020 in collaboration with John Carroll Kirby, and signed to Stones Throw Records in 2022.

Eddie Chacon is acclaimed for his thoughtful strain of R&B, musing on themes of mortality, failure, and growth. On Lay Low, his third solo album and second for Stones Throw, he delves into the grief that attended the loss of his mother, Patricia. The albumwas recorded over two years in Nick Hakim’s Brooklyn studio, with Hakim helping build an intuitive framework for Chacon’s songs of love and letting go.

On this occasion, Eddie will be accompanied by increasingly hyped, Newcastle-based "Knats", who are described by Jazzwise as “one of the most exciting new bands in the UK”, in the words of The Guardian they “gleefully rewire jazz with a hard-as-nails rhythm section, drum’n’bass energy and punk aggression.”...

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