Dead Fingers Release Big Black Dog on PIPEANDGUN/Communicating Vessels
Band Announces More U.S. Tour Dates
Dead Fingers, photo by Jonathan Purvis
Dead Fingers have released Big Black Dog on sister labels PIPEANDGUN and Communicating Vessels and are inviting you to the celebration with a national headlining tour. See below for new shows and a new venue in Las Vegas. Great reviews have been flowing in from music writers everywhere ~ PopDose described it thusly: “…Eleven slightly skewed songs that have quirky rhythms, lyrical twists and wonderful harmonic interplay in the vocals…All in all, a very satisfying collection…,” and Glide Magazine offered, “On their stunning sophomore album Big Black Dog, Birmingham, AL duo Dead Fingers create eccentric and imaginative soundscapes. Songs about heartbreak, uncertainty and resilience are kooky and unique, but always thoughtful. Dead Fingers are a band to watch.”
Since 2012’s eponymous debut on Big Legal Mess Records, Dead Fingers have had some time to step back and take stock of all of the dynamic changes their lives have undergone over the past few years. As new parents, Kate and Taylor have added a whole new perspective to their road weary travelogues and broke-beat folk/country/blues hybrid, that speaks as much to their growing maturity as artists as it does to their innate ability to put their lives squarely in the fabric of their songs.
American Songwriter premiered Big Black Dog this week here.
Guitar World Acoustic Nation has the acoustic video and a free download of “Twisted” here.
You can also watch the “Twisted” video on Youtube.
From Taylor’s earliest days as a lo-fi axe slinger shredding J. Mascis-by way of-Johnny Thunders riffage on You Know That Summer’s Coming to his time spent touring with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, wrangling cosmic American music out of Mexican moorings, and with Kate, with her siblings Maria and Macey Taylor, a member of one of the most gifted musical families the Magic City has ever produced, it’s easy to see why they needed some time away from the stage to think about a life removed from rock and roll.
From acoustic remedies like the elegant “Pomp & Circumstance” for heartbroken scribes to the playful pretzel wordplay of “Twisted” and the metaphysical longing of “Still Haven’t Been Satisfied,” there’s enough existential wisdom for people twice these artists’ ages to revel in ~ along with the standard Dead Fingers six string whiplash ~ to make this one of the most exciting albums in either of their respective catalogs. Documenting their peculiar form of domestic bliss in tracks like “Shoom Doom Babba Labba” and “Free Tonight,” Big Black Dog stands as a new chapter in the careers of two of Birmingham’s most talented musicians and their struggle to find a balance between their art and home life and everything in between.
Photo courtesy of PIPEANDGUN
Tour Dates
July 18 – Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree
July 19 – Tuscaloosa, AL @ Druid City Brewery
July 20 – Athens, GA @ The World Famous
July 21 – Marshall, NC @ Good Stuff
July 22 – Asheville, NC @ Jack of the Wood
July 23 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Garage
July 24 – off
July 25 – NYC, NY @ St. Dymphna’s
July 26 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall
July 27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
July 29 – Youngstown, OH @ Greyland
July 30 – Detroit, MI @ The Rockery
July 31 – Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
August 1 – Bayport, MN @ Bayport BBQ
August 2 – Omaha, NE @ O’leavers
August 3 – Lincoln, NE @ Yia Yia’s