New release: Selwyn Birchwood – Living In A Burning House (Alligator Records, 29 January 2021)
VISIONARY BLUES STAR SELWYN BIRCHWOOD SET TO RELEASE
LIVING IN A BURNING HOUSE ON JANUARY 29, 2021
Groundbreaking young blues visionary Selwyn Birchwood will release his highly anticipated third Alligator album, Living In A Burning House, on Friday, January 29, 2021. The rising guitar and lap steel player calls his original music “electric swamp funkin’ blues,” defined by raw and soulful musicianship played with fire-and-brimstone fervor. His gritty, unvarnished vocals draw his audience deep inside his unforgettable tales of love, passion, pain and pleasure. No other band on the current blues scene is built quite like Birchwood’s. In addition to Selwyn’s electrifying guitar and lap steel playing, the other featured instrument is Regi Oliver’s driving baritone sax. The group is rounded out by bass, drums and, for the first time, keyboards.
Wanting to capture the power of the now larger band, Birchwood wrote and arranged 13 new songs, and brought in famed Grammy Award-winning musician Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Susan Tedeschi) to produce. From the rocking opener I’d Climb Mountains to the sweet soul of She’s A Dime and One More Time to the hair-raising Revelation, Living In A Burning House features some of the most vividly striking writing on today’s blues scene. Birchwood’s voice and vision are clear, his sound is edgy and compelling, and his stories are memorable and lasting.
The title track from Living In A Burning House was released as a single in June 2020. Listen and watch the music video…
According to Birchwood, “I tell my stories in my own way, with my own voice. You won’t ever hear me on stage telling someone else’s story. Muddy Waters, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker all told their own stories. That’s what I’m doing.”
Since the 2014 release of his Alligator Records debut, Don’t Call No Ambulance, Birchwood’s meteoric rise from playing small Florida clubs to headlining international festival stages is nothing short of phenomenal. The album received the Blues Music Award and Living Blues Critics’ Award for Best Debut Album Of 2014, and he won the 2015 Blues Blast Rising Star Award. Rave reviews ran in publications from Rolling Stone to The Wall Street Journal, from The Chicago Tribune to The San Francisco Chronicle. He followed in 2016 with Pick Your Poison. DownBeat said, “There’s a deep-seated power about Birchwood’s singing and six string/lap steel guitar work…and there’s an unmistakable emotion and honesty linking him to forebears like Muddy Waters. Thoughtful, persuasive and rugged.”
Birchwood and his band have crisscrossed the U.S. and Europe repeatedly, delivering unforgettable live performances. They have appeared domestically at festivals including The Chicago Blues Festival, Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Tampa Bay Blues Festival, The North Atlantic Blues Festival, The King Biscuit Blues Festival as well as on The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise and Joe Bonamassa’s Keeping The Blues Alive At Sea. Internationally, they have performed at The Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival, Jazz a Vienne in France, the Rawa Blues Festival in Poland, the Moulin Blues Festival in the Netherlands, the Ottawa Blues Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival in Canada, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, as well as playing concerts in Spain, Norway, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Belgium and Mexico.
“I write and sing what I know,” says Birchwood, whose musical innovations are as expansive as his influences are deep. With Living In A Burning House, Selwyn Birchwood is looking forward to winning over thousands of new fans. “They say everything is better when it’s made with love,” says Birchwood. “That’s how we play our music and that’s how we made the new album. I want my audience to say, ‘I know exactly what that feels like,’ when a song hits them. Because that’s when it stops just being music and starts being medicine. After all, we are all stricken with the condition of being human.”
Selwyn Birchwood – Living In A Burning House
Label: Alligator Records
Release date: 29 January 2021
Tracks
1. I’d Climb Mountains 3:31
2. I Got Drunk, Laid And Stoned 3:32
3. Living in a Burning House 4:07
4. You Can’t Steal My Shine 3:54
5. Revelation 2:50
6. Searching For My Tribe 4:19
7. She’s a Dime 3:59
8. One More Time 4:31
9. Mama Knows Best 4:38
10. Freaks Come Out at Night 4:40
11. Through a Microphone 3:24
12. Rock Bottom 3:09
13. My Happy Place 3:43
All songs by Selwyn Birchwood, Selwyn Birchwood Music adm. by Eyeball Music, BMI
Selwyn Birchwood Vocals, Guitar, Lap Steel, Glockenspiel
Regi Oliver Baritone Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone,
Piccolo Flute Donald “Huff” Wright Bass
Philip “Squeak” Walker Drums
Walter “Bunt” May B3, Wurlitzer, Piano
with
Tom Hambridge Background Vocals on “Searching For My Tribe” and “Revelation,” Tambourine,
Chimes Diunna Greenleaf Vocals on “Mama Knows Best”
CeCe Teneal Background Vocals on “One More Time”
Selwyn Birchwood Online : www.selwynbirchwood.com
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