Number of shows i’ve seen through my lens: 1 show
Photographed in (years): 2022
Festivals: Ribs & Blues Festival
Dylan LeBlanc
Born on: March 9, 1990
Born in: Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Instrument: Guitar
Dylan LeBlanc was born on March 9, 1990 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. His parents divorced when Dylan was still very young and moved with his mother and his two siblings to Blanchard, a small town near Shreveport. Dylan’s mother worked as a fulltime home cleaner while raising her three children. Dylan’s father was an aspiring country songwriter and relocating to Muscle Shoals when Dylan was ten years old. The young boy moved with his father to Muscle Shoals where two recording studios were located. LeBlanc senior’s career was taking off and he spent a lot of time in the FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, both located in Muscle Shoals. During these late night sessions in the recording studio Dylan’s father always took his young son with him. Dylan watched and listened to the musicians working on a song and became fascinated with music and musicians and their way of life. For four years Dylan lived with his father and watched and learned while watching him work in the recording studio. This is of course not a stable home for a young kid and in 2004 Dylan moved back to Shreveport to live with his grandmother. In Shreveport Dylan went to Captain Shreve High School, where he met Daniel Goodwill and the two started playing music together. Not long after that Goodwill and LeBlanc started performing with an alternative rock band named Jimmy Sad Eyes Blue. LeBlanc, at that moment, was just 15 years old when he first stepped on stage with Jimmy Sad Eyes Blue. While with the band Goodwill inspired LeBlanc to start writing his own songs instead of only playing covers. After about two years with Jimmy Sad Eyes Blue and playing a lot of local shows, Dylan had to leave the band and check himself into rehab.
After rehab Dylan decided not to return to high school but chose to be a full time musician. Dylan joined a punk rock band from Muscle Shoals and with them he toured through the south east of America. After playing with this band for a few years Dylan co-founded the band Abraham. It was with Abraham that Dylan first stepped into a recording studio to record music himself. Dylan’s first recordings were made in the FAME studio in Muscle Shoals were he had watched his father work years before. Ben Tanner was working as an engineer at the FAME studio and a good friend and bandmember of Abraham. Tanner sneaked the band in after closing time to record some demo’s for free. Nothing came from this recording and in 2009 Dylan decided to leave the band. By this time he had wrote a lot of songs and he kept writing more. Not long after Dylan started his solo career he was picked up by Rough Trade Records.
LeBlanc started recording his first record, were else than at the FAME studio in Muscle Shoals. The 12 track album was released worldwide in early 2010. “Paupers Field” was received well by critics in America but also in Europe. In November Dylan went on his first European tour, traveling and playing in Sweden, Germany and The Netherlands. Dylan spent the first months of 2011 touring North America to promote his album and went back to Europe in June, playing in Belgium, The Netherlands and Sweden before playing the Glastonbury festival in the UK. The rest of the year Dylan played as many shows as he could in North America and working on the follow up to his successful debut album. In August 2012 the “Cast the Same Old Shadow” album was released and, again, was very well received by critics in North America and Europe. By now Dylan was making a name for himself in Europe and toured there twice in 2012. The heavy touring schedule and the pressure to write a third successful album became too much in 2013. Dylan was physically and mentally exhausted and drinking heavily when he decided to move back to his old hometown of Muscle Shoals to work on himself. LeBlanc stepped away from his record deal with Rough Trade Records and checked into rehab again.
Without any other interest and without an education LeBlanc slowly went back to writing and recording new songs. He turned to his old friend Ben Tanner, with whom he recorded his first songs, who was again working at the FAME studios in Muscle Shoals. The two did their best to tell the story of LeBlanc’s life the last couple of years. The result was “Cautionary Tale” Dylan LeBlanc’s best album to date, released on January 15, 2016 through Single Lock Records. After the release LeBlanc went back on tour in North America and returned to Europe the year after. Dylan continues to tour North America and Europe in 2018, playing as many shows as he can promoting his new album. On June 7, 2019 his fourth studio album, “Renegade”, was released through ATO Records. Since the release LeBlanc continues to tour North America and Europe building up an audience as a live act. As of 2022 no new recordings are announced.