Robert Finley will be heading to the UK this Winter.
Following the release of his fourth studio album Black Bayou, Finley will be bringing the songs of his latest masterwork to Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and London in November.
Telling tales of the bayou from childhood to now, on ‘Black Bayou’ the 69-year old Finley takes listeners on a journey that showcases his growly vocals, sultry falsetto and cements him as a living legend. It’s an 11-track tour de force that coalesces gospel, blues, soul, and rock into a raw, thundering tribute to Finley’s home state of Louisiana.
Finley recorded ‘Black Bayou’ at Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville. It’s the fourth time the duo have worked together, although for this record they did things a little differently. Rather than write songs beforehand—as they did on 2017’s ;Goin’ Platinum; and 2021’s ‘Sharecropper’s Son’—they conceived everything in the studio, with Auerbach leading a band of some of the finest players around: drummers Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) and Jeffrey Clemens (G. Love & Special Sauce), bassist Eric Deaton, and legendary Hill Country blues guitarist Kenny Brown along with vocalists Christy Johnson and LaQuindrelyn McMahon—who just happen to be Finley’s daughter and granddaughter. They worked quickly, devising their parts spontaneously and getting everything in one take.
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