WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO FOR REAL LOW DOWN LONESOME

NEW DAN AUERBACH-PRODUCED ALBUM STRANGE TIME TO BE ALIVE IS OUT AUGUST 19 VIA EASY EYE SOUND 
   
AFTER ALBUM RELEASE SHOW NEXT FRIDAY AT STATION INN IN NASHVILLE, EARLY JAMES WILL OPEN THE NEXT LEG OF THE BLACK KEYS SUMMER TOUR
 
AMERICANAFEST, AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL DEBUT
AND FALL HEADLINING TOUR STILL TO COME

TORONTO, ON – August 11, 2022 – For his upcoming Dan Auerbach-produced second album, Strange Time To Be Alive, out next Friday, (August 19) via Easy Eye Sound, Early James tapped fellow old-soul Sierra Ferrell for a smouldering, time-bending duet on album standout, Real Low Down Lonesome. The song documents a fictional doomed love affair, with the two otherworldly voices careening through the track’s lush arrangement of Cuban percussion, piano and gut-string guitar. Watch the lyric video for Real Low Down Lonesome here.
 
“This one was a little exercise in creative writing,” explains Early James. “Imagining these two lonely narcissists that keep using each other for a moment’s reprieve only to end up with nothing again. Sierra’s vocals are so drenched in reverb, and I love how strange it sounds—it’s almost operatic.”
 
Strange Time To Be Alive is the sound of an artist sublimely out of step with the world. With all the charmed eccentricity of a true poet conjuring the ghosts of great southern gothic writers from Eudora Welty to William Faulkner, Early James takes in the endless absurdity he sees around him, then alchemizes his unease into a glorious patchwork of musical idioms: forsaken blues and contemplative folk songs, brooding murder ballads and lovestruck piano tunes. Early James ultimately extracts a certain magic from the madness, imbuing even the most painful truth-telling with a wild-eyed joie de vivre.
 
The follow-up to 2020’s Singing For My Supper (hailed by MOJO as a “luminous debut”), Strange Time To Be Alive came to life in three whirlwind days at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, TN. Early James joined forces with such esteemed musicians as guitarist Tom Bukovac (Willie Nelson, Keb’ Mo’), drummer Jay Bellerose (Sharon Van Etten, Allen Toussaint), keyboardist Mike Rojas (Tyler Childers, Yola) as well as Early James’ longtime bandmate, Adrian Marmolejo on upright bass.
 
EARLY JAMES - 2022 TOUR DATES
Aug 12 - Nashville, TN - Vinyl Tap (in-store performance)
Aug 16 - Birmingham, AL - Seasick Records (in-store performance)
Aug 19 - Nashville, TN - Station Inn
Aug 24 - West Palm Beach, FL - iThink Amphitheater ***
Aug 25 - Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre ***
Aug 27 - Atlanta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheater ***
Aug 28 - Huntsville, AL - Orion Amphitheater ***
Aug 30 - Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium ***
Sept 1 - Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park ***
Sept 3 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center ***
Sept 6 - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage ***
Sept 7 - Detroit, MI – Pine Knob Music Theater ***
Sept 9 - Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center ***
Sept 11 - Roswell, GA - Chattahoochee Nature Center
Sept 15-17 - Nashville, TN - AmericanaFest 
Oct 2 - Athens, GA - Wildwood Revival Festival
Oct 14 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival
Oct 16 - Little Rock, AR - The White Water Tavern
Oct 18 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl
Oct 21 - Washington, DC - Jammin Java
Oct 22 - Philadelphia, PA - World Café (Upstairs)
Oct 23 - Boston, MA - Atwood’s Tavern
Oct 25 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
Oct 27 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Café
Oct 28 - Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups
Oct 29 - Chicago, IL - Golden Dagger
Oct 30 - Davenport, IA - Racoon Motel
*** supporting The Black Keys 

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