Reed Turchi, the Brooklyn-based musician, producer, and poet announces his new record World On Fire, a collection of vintage blues and spiritual tunes Turchi picked up along the way on his circuitous route through the music industry. Some of the songs are traditional with no documented authors, others performed by so many artists with so many variations over the years that it’s impossible to pin down any definitive version, but on World On Fire, Turchi makes each his own with striking honesty and intimacy. World On Fire is set to be released on May 30.
After four years of upheaval—including illness, divorce, and a cross-country move—Reed Turchi found himself right back where he started, playing the same songs he learned when he first fell in love with the North Mississippi Hill Country blues as a teenager. This time, though, something felt different. “I’ve known how to play these tunes for a long time now,” Turchi explains, “but I didn’t know how to sing them until I lived them. I had to find my voice.”
Recorded live over two nights without any edits or overdubs, Turchi’s captivating new album is the raw and haunting testimony of a man who’s been to the brink and back, as stark and eerie as it is enthralling and hypnotic. Turchi produced the record himself, stripping each track down to its barest essentials with only acoustic guitars, upright bass, and drums to accompany his evocative slide playing and aching vocals.
World On Fire Tracklist:
- Walk With Me
- When You’ve Got A Good Friend
- Get Back Train
- Lay My Burden Down
- Don’t Leave Me Baby
- Backdoor Man
- 51 Highway
- Someday Baby
- Reprise
