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ROBERT FINLEY – Blues-Rock Legend Comes to UK This Winter

Following the release of his fourth studio album Black Bayou, Finley will be bringing the songs of his latest masterwork to Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and London in November – dates and details are listed below. Tickets on sale now here.

Telling tales of the bayou from childhood to now, on ‘Black Bayou’ the 69-year old Finley takes listeners on a journey that showcases his growly vocals, sultry falsetto and cements him as a living legend. It’s an 11-track tour de force that coalesces gospel, blues, soul, and rock into a raw, thundering tribute to Finley’s home state of Louisiana.

Watch Finley’s new music video for “Waste Of Time,” filmed at Easy Eye Studios and featuring appearances from The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach. The video is a snapshot of the creation of the album, set to the gristly, crunchy, swaggering blues number from Black Bayou. Listen to Black Bayou HERE

‘Black Bayou’ has already been heaped with praise from SPIN, The FADER, American Songwriter, UNCUT, Paste, MOJO, Brooklyn Vegan and a slew of other outlets, including The Bluegrass Situation who have hailed Finley as their Artist of the Month for November. Finley recently performed the new album on CBS Saturday Morning, giving a rousing performance of his singles “What Goes Around (Comes Around)” , “Sneakin’ Around”, and “Nobody Wants To Be Lonely.”

Finley recorded ‘Black Bayou’ at Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville. It’s the fourth time the duo have worked together, although for this record they did things a little differently. Rather than write songs beforehand—as they did on 2017’s ;Goin’ Platinum; and 2021’s ‘Sharecropper’s Son’—they conceived everything in the studio, with Auerbach leading a band of some of the finest players around: drummers Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) and Jeffrey Clemens (G. Love & Special Sauce), bassist Eric Deaton, and legendary Hill Country blues guitarist Kenny Brown along with vocalists Christy Johnson and LaQuindrelyn McMahon—who just happen to be Finley’s daughter and granddaughter. They worked quickly, devising their parts spontaneously and getting everything in one take.

Robert Finley will be playing the following dates this November:

ROBERT FINLEY – NOVEMBER UK TOUR
2 – GLASGOW, Oran Mor
3 – MANCHESTER, Band on the Wall
4 – NORWICH, Norwich Arts Centre
6 – LONDON, Union Chapel

Tickets: https://robertfinleyofficial.com