Marcus King Band’s New Album ‘Darling Blue’ On Deck For September
Marcus King Band has slated their latest album, Darling Blue, for release on Sept. 26 via American Records/Republic Records.
In celebration of the announcement, the band has shared two new songs from the album: “Here Today” featuring Jamey Johnson and Kaitlin Butts, and “Carry Me Home,” which reflects on King’s deep love for the Blue Ridge mountains and the place he calls home. Inspired heavily by his home state of South Carolina, the new album incorporates elements of country, folk, psychedelic rock and Motown-era R&B, and continues the conversation on King’s experience with addiction and depression.
“It truly felt like home,” says King. “Like my band and I were just working out songs to perform live but ended up creating a piece of recorded music for our fans to hear. Our goal is always to be a vessel and allow the music to flow through us and tap into something that’s already there in the room. But more than anything I’ve done before, this album felt like a real concerted effort to make music for myself, and for ourselves as a band—creating for the love of creating and being as honest as we possibly can. We put everything we had into making something that we love and we have faith that the audience will feel that and love it too.”
Prior to the album announcement, the band shared “Honky Tonk Hell,” which became the fastest single in King’s career to hit one million streams, as well as “Carolina Honey,” released on the heels of King’s Bonnaroo performance for a crowd of 40,000.
King and the band are also gearing up for their Marcus King Band Family Reunion music festival, which will return for its fourth installment this summer, taking place in Charleston for the first time ever Aug. 23-24. The lineup for this year’s festival will include performances by the Marcus King Band along with Jamey Johnson, Stephen Wilson Jr., Molly Tuttle, Hiss Golden Messenger and more.
Darling Blue Track List:
1. “On & On”
2. “Here Today” ft. Jamey Johnson & Kaitlin Butts
3. “Honky Tonk Hell”
4. “Heartlands”
5. “Die Alone”
6. “Somebody Else” ft. Jesse Welles
7. “Levi’s & Goodbyes”
8. “Carolina Honey”
9. “No Room For Blue”
10. “Blue Ridge Mountain Moon”
11. “Dirt (Nashville version)” ft. Billy Strings
12. “The Shadows” ft. Noah Cyrus
13. “Pretty Petty”
14. “Carry Me Home”
