Buffalo Nichols - Hear new track from new album 'The Fatalist' - UK/EU tour announced

HEAR NEW TRACK 'THE DIFFERENCE' HERE

Buffalo Nichols today released 'The Difference', the third single previewing his anticipated new album 'The Fatalist' due out on 15th September via Fat Possum. Nichols explains the pensive, melancholic track is “about someone who often mistakes shallow signs of affection for true love and in the end decides a one-sided relationship is better than loneliness.”  

 

LISTEN TO 'THE DIFFERENCE' HERE

 

 

'The Difference' follows 'Love Is All' and his fresh take on Blind Willie Johnson’s 'You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond'.

 

The Milwaukee, WI-based guitarist/songwriter is currently on a summer tour across the U.S. and has just announced a UK/EU tour in January 2024, which will include a headline show at London's The Lexington. Tickets for all new shows are on sale now; full itinerary is listed below.

 

Thursday 25 January - The Prince Albert - Brighton, UK

Friday 26 January - The Cluny 2 - Newcastle, UK

Saturday 27 January - Celtic Connections - Glasgow, UK

Sunday 28 January - Sneaky Pete's - Edinburgh, UK

Tuesday 30 January - The Lexington - London, UK

Wednesday 31 January - GC De Wildeman - Herent, BE

Thursday 01 February - Tivoli/ Vredenburg - Utrecht, NL

Friday 02 February - Der Aa-Theater - Groningen, NL

Saturday 03 February - Metropool - Hengelo, NL

Sunday 04 February - De Doelen - Rotterdam, NL

Monday 05 February - Americana Mondays - Eindhoven, NL

The self-produced follow-up to his 2021 s/t debut LP for Fat Possum–a critically acclaimed record that earned him his network television debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, various major festival performances, and rave coverage via NPR Music (All Songs Considered, Tiny Desk (Home) Concert), Rolling Stone, Guitar World, Texas Monthly, and more. 'The Fatalist' sounds unlike any blues record you’re likely to hear in 2023.  

 

The stakes throughout this album are largely personal, rather than social; Nichols is singing about his life in the first person, and about his desire to forge his own individuality in a world and a music industry that make it nearly impossible to do so. Ringing through “The Fatalist Blues”—and The Fatalist—is a simple question: Do I have any say in how things are going to go? It’s the question behind so much of the physical and psychic pain in the blues, and in a frustrating age that preaches self-empowerment and shames the disenfranchised, it’s a stridently modern question, too. By playing his music the way he wants to play it, by refusing to give up his creative control or accept anyone else’s definition of the blues or indeed his own life, Nichols has tried to forge an answer. Does he have any say in how things are going to go? Let’s find out.

 

PRE-ORDER 'THE FATALIST' HERE

 

Praise for Buffalo Nichols’ eponymous debut album:

 

“a sharp, succinct, inventive and insightful songwriter, one who can convey complex ideas with just a few words.” Uncut 9/10 Album of the Month

 

"Mesmerising... gritty, old-style blues with a laser-sharp modern focus" 4/5 MOJO

 

"Impressive debut, an album steeped in tradition but with an urgent, contemporary edge" The Observer

 

"A true find" 9/10 Classic Rock

 

"A short, but sharp debut" 4/5 Daily Express

 

“Nichols will soon be blues royalty...Get to know this future legend” The Revue

 

“...one of the most promising debut records to come out in quite some time” - No Depression

 

“...stripped-down arrangement of fingerstyle and slide guitar, plus Nichols’ world-weary delivery of his existential blues.” Rolling Stone

 

 

‘The Fatalist’ LP tracklist:

1. Cold Black Stare

2. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond

3. Love Is All

4. Turn Another Stone

5. The Difference

6. The Long Journey Home

7. The Fatalist Blues

8. This Moment (feat. Samantha Rise)

 

Buffalo Nichols tour dates

08/18 - Roxbury, NY - Roxbury ARts Center

08/19 - Portsmouth, NH - The Music Hall - Live Under the Arch Series

08/24-27 - Tønder, DK - Tønder Festival

09/06 - Bloomington, IN - The Bishop

09/07 - Newport, KY - Southgate House

09/08 - Louisville, KY - Zanzabar

09/09 - Bowling Green. OH - Black Swamp Arts Festival

09/14 - Denver, CO - Levitt Pavilion

09/15-17 - Telluride Blues & Brews

09/20 - Elkton, MD - Elkton Music Hall

09/21 - Southampton, PA - Stone Turtle House Concert

09/22 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge

09/23 - New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine

09/24 - North Adams, MA - Freshgrass

10/05 - Madison, WI - High Noon

10/06 - Chicago, IL - Sleeping Village

10/07 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club

10/12 - Grand Rapids, MI - Midtown

10/13 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern

10/14 - Jackson, MI - Jackson Symphony Orchestra

10/15 - Columbus, OH - Rumba Cafe - WCBE Happy Hour

10/18 - Buffalo, NY - Buffalo Iron Works

10/19 - Rochester, NY - Abilene Bar & Lounge

10/20 - Providence, RI - Askew

10/21 - Portland, ME - One Longfellow

10/22 - Waterbury Center, VT - Zenbarn

11/10 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall

11/13 - Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern

11/14 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios

11/15 - Eugene, OR - Hult Center

11/16 - Grass Valley, CA - Grass Valley Center for the Arts

11/17 - Livermore, CA - Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center

11/18 - Los Angeles, CA - Gold Diggers

11/29 - Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor

11/30 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle

12/01 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl

01/25 - Brighton, UK - The Prince Albert

01/26 - Newcastle, UK - The Cluny 2

01/27 - Glasgow, UK - Celtic Connections

01/28 - Edinburgh, UK - Sneaky Pete's

01/30 - London, UK - The Lexington

01/31 - Herent, BE - GC De Wilderman

02/01 - Utrecht, NL - Tivoli/ Vredenburg

02/02 - Groningen, NL - Der Aa-Theater

02/03 - Hengelo, NL - Metropool

02/04 - Rotterdam, NL - De Doelen

02/05 - Eindhoven, NL - Americana Mondays

 

FIND TICKETS HERE

www.buffalo-nichols.com 

www.facebook.com/BuffaloNicholsMusic 

www.twitter.com/BuffaloNichols 

www.instagram.com/buffalonicholsmusic 

www.fatpossum.com 

 

‘The Fatalist’ LP artwork

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