New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Western Publicity) Dead Fingers returns to release Big
Black Dog on sister labels PIPEANDGUN and Communicating Vessels on July 15, 2014, with a national headlining tour to celebrate. Since 2012's eponymous debut on Big Legal Mess Records, Dead Fingers have had some time to take a 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.
"Froggy-voiced boy meets caramel-voiced girl; their slice-of-life country feels like an Eggleston exhibit" - Spin Magazine
"The album features lush instrumentation (blues guitar! harmonica!) behind pretty harmonic duets and alternating solos. Husband and wife each play guitar and sing, forging a more collaborative air than that of, say, She & Him. The melodies and lyrics aren't surprising, but the beauty and emotion they carry certainly are" + "Much of the album recalls the collaborative work of
John Prine and Iris Dement" Oxford American
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 Kate's lifelong tutelage in one of the most gifted musical families the Magic City has ever produced alongside her siblings
Maria and Macey Taylor, 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 penning acoustic remedies for heartbroken scribes like the elegant "Pomp & Circumstance," 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 their age 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 all of the mixed up semiotics that lies between the two.
On Tour
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 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 @ Vega
