Sam Burchfield has announced a new album, Nature Speaks, to be released on October 24 on Cloverdale Records, with a new single, “Holiday,” as well as a string of West Coast tour dates, detailed below.
Recorded in just five days at Studio 1093 in Athens, Georgia, with co-producers and collaborators Ryan Plumley and Jason Kingsland (Delta Spirit, Deerhunter), Sam Burchfield’s sixth album is his most stripped-down and spirit-forward to date. The songs came together during a momentous new phase of fatherhood, a reckoning with changing priorities, and a beautiful submission to a steadier, rooted life.
In that moment, a man sitting at a public space piano began playing the song Burchfield’s partner walked down the aisle to at their wedding. Coincidence or cosmic wink, it stirred Burchfield’s soul. “It felt like walking through a portal.”
For Burchfield, like many of us, it took a moment of poignant distance to illuminate his place of utmost belonging—back in the Blue Ridge Mountains, among his family. And with that radical clarity came a revitalized artistic confidence, a turning point in accepting and trusting his own musical intuition, the intuition from which Nature Speaks beautifully emerges.
Nature Speaks Track Listing:
1. Spirit of the Night
2. Make Change
3. Close
4. Stay (Betty Blue)
5. Holiday
6. Desert Springs
7. Nature Speaks
8. Morning Light
Tour Dates:
Aug 9th – The Rooster – Gastonia, NC
Aug 16th – The Showdown – Portland, OR
Aug 20th – Cafe Du Nord – San Francisco, CA
Aug 21st – Gold Diggers – Los Angeles, CA
Aug 22nd – Aviator Nation Dreamland – Malibu, CA
Aug 23rd – Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
Oct 16th – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC
Oct 17th – Jefferson Theater – Charlottesville, VA
Oct 18th – The Hamilton Live – Washington, DC
Nov 14th – Aggie Theatre – Fort Collins, CO
Nov 15th – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO