Sam Burchfield has announced a new album Nature Speaks to be released October 24 on Cloverdale Records with new single “Holiday,” as well as a string of West Coast tour dates, detailed below.
Recorded in just five days at Studio 1093 in Athens, Georgia with co-producers and collaborators Ryan Plumley and Jason Kingsland (Delta Spirit, Deerhunter), Sam Burchfield’s sixth album is his most stripped-down and spirit-forward to date. The songs came together during a momentous new phase of fatherhood, a reckoning with changing priorities, and a beautiful submission to a steadier, rooted life.
“Just before we recorded, I was in New York City on tour,” Burchfield shares. “My wife was at home, pregnant with our second child. I was taking a walk through Washington Square Park, feeling this hyper-vivid awareness of the beauty of the city, and at the same time, this intense pain of being away from my family.” In that moment, a man sitting at a public space piano began playing the song Burchfield’s partner walked down the aisle to at their wedding. Coincidence or cosmic wink, it stirred Burchfield’s soul. “It felt like walking through a portal.”
This recent offering follows the recently released singles “Spirit of the Night” and “Stay (Betty Blue)”, while Burchfield’s career has spanned countless national tours and opening slots for the likes of CAAMP, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, David Shaw of The Revivalists and more.
TOUR DATES
Aug 9th – The Rooster – Gastonia, NC
Aug 16th – The Showdown – Portland, OR
Aug 20th – Cafe Du Nord – San Francisco, CA
Aug 21st – Gold Diggers – Los Angeles, CA
Aug 22nd – Aviator Nation Dreamland – Malibu, CA
Aug 23rd – Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
Oct 16th – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC
Oct 17th – Jefferson Theater – Charlottesville, VA
Oct 18th – The Hamilton Live – Washington, DC
Nov 14th – Aggie Theatre – Fort Collins, CO
Nov 15th – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO
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that story about the piano in the park gave me chills