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Hear New Track ‘Sallisaw Blue’
Big Bad Luv Released on May 5, 2017
Album Release Week UK Tour
“He wrings poetry from commonplace words and wisdom from dusty Midwestern country rock, chronicling tangled relationships and dead-end small towns.” Uncut (8/10)
Ahead of his first album with 4AD, Oklahoma troubadour John Moreland has shared a new song, Big Bad Luv Americana opener ‘Sallisaw Blue’, which was premiered today by the FADER.
Moreland’s upcoming album, Big Bad Luv, is an honest, bruising experience. A record about love, faith and the human condition, it’s his debut for 4AD and the first full-length released to worldwide anticipation on May 5th 2017.
Moving from Kentucky to Tulsa when he was ten years old, John fronted hardcore and punk bands throughout high school years before feeling the pull of the lyricism he heard in folk and country music. A prolific songwriter, he has released largely self-produced albums every other year since 2011. His fourth album, Big Bad Luv was recorded in Little Rock, AK, with a band of Tulsa friends, later mixed by GRAMMY winning Tchad Blake, who has worked with Al Green and Tom Waits.
Sallisaw Blue
Arkansas River, Sallisaw blue
This town never seen nothin’ like you
They got silver spoons for American gods
I wanna be stoned, thrown American rods
I don’t know anything, you don’t know shit
With your bloodshot eyes giving my black heart fits
There’s a neon sign that says ‘big bad love’
And a noose hanging down from the heavens above
It’s no use, God bless these blues
Let’s get wrecked and bruised and battered
I need you, come on, burn right through
Honey, show me I’m not shattered
Down for the count, along for the ride
Sipping cold medicine, ruining our lives
Slumming I-40 with American songs
They can bury our bodies in American wrongs
John Moreland will be playing full-band shows in the UK during the release week of Big Bad Luv. Starting on May 6, he visits Glasgow, Leeds and headlines two nights at London’s Union Chapel. See below for a full list of tour dates.
JOHN MORELAND TOUR DATES:
April 22 – DECATUR, GA, Amplify Decatur Music Festival
April 23 – NORTH CHARLESTON, SC, High Water Festival
April 28 – INDIO, CA, Stagecoach Country Music Festival
May 6 – GLASGOW, Oran Mor SOLD OUT
May 7 – LEEDS, Left Bank
May 8 – LONDON, Union Chapel SOLD OUT
May 9 – LONDON, Union Chapel
May 11 – PARIS, Les Étoiles
May 13 – HAMBURG, Kampnagel
May 14 – BERLIN, Passionkirche Kreuzberg
May 16 – AMSTERDAM, Paradiso SOLD OUT
June 1 – SAINT LOUIS, MO, Off Broadway
June 2 – INDIANAPOLIS, IN, White Rabbit Cabaret
June 3 – CLEVELAND, OH, Beachland Tavern
June 4 – WASHINGTON, DC, Rock & Roll Hotel
June 7 – NEW YORK, NY, Bowery Ballroom
June 8 – BOSTON, MA, The Sinclair
June 9 – MONTREAL, QC, Le Ritz
June 10 – TORONTO, ON, Velvet Underground
June 13 – ANN ARBOR, MI, The Ark
June 14 – CHICAGO, IL, Thalia Hall
June 16 – MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Turf Club
June 17 – MAQUOKETA, IA, Codfish Hollow Barnstormers
June 24 – WINFIELD, KA, Wheat State Whine Company
July 11 – FAYETTEVILLE, AR, George’s Majestic Lounge
July 12 – MEMPHIS, TN, 1884 Lounge at Minglewood Hall
July 14-16 – LOUISVILLE, KY, Forecastle Festival
July 15-16 – BIRMINGHAM, AL, Sloss Festival
July 18 – ASHEVILLE, NC, Grey Eagle
July 19 – CARRBORO, NC, Cat’s Cradle
July 20 – CHARLOTTE, NC, Visulite Theatre
July 22 – OXFORD, MS, Proud Larry’s
August 2 – WICHITA, KS, Barleycorns
August 5 – DENVER, CO, Larimer Lounge
August 6 – SALT LAKE CITY, UT, State Room
August 8 – SEATTLE, WA, Tractor Tavern
August 9 – VANCOUVER, BC, The Cobalt
August 10 – PORTLAND, OR, Aladdin Theater
August 11-13 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Outside Lands Festival
August 13 – PASA ROBLES, CA, Barrelhouse Brewing
August 18-20 – BIDDINGHUIZEN, Lowlands Festival
August 22 – AMSTERDAM, Paradiso
August 23 – NIJMEGEN, St. Stevenskerk
August 24-27 – TØNDER, Tønder Festival
August 26 – KRISTIANSAND, Norway Café Generalen
August 27 – OSLO, Norway Café Mono
August 28 – TRONDHEIM, Norway Bar Moskus
August 31 – ANTWERP, Openluchttheater Riviernhof
September 1 – MOSELEY, Moseley Folk Festival
September 1-3 – LARMER TREE, End of the Road Festival
September 29 – SALINA, KS, Stiefel Theatre
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