Craig Finn’s new song “Maggie I‘ve Been Searching For Our Son”premiered on Monday at WSJ.com. “Maggie I‘ve Been Searching For Our Son,”is now available for download at iTunes, and is the second song released from Finn’s recently announced second solo album, Faith in the Future, in-stores September 11 on Partisan Records. The album is available for pre-order via digital and traditional outlets, and Pledge Music.
The first U.S. tour to support Faith In The Future is also announced today, with Craig Finn playing shows throughout the east coast and the Midwest from October 14 through November 6. The tour includes stops in Chicago (Oct 22), Minneapolis (Oct 24), Washington DC (Nov 02), and New York City (Nov 06). Esmé Patterson will be supporting on all shows. Craig will also be opening for My Morning Jacket on Saturday, November 28 on the final night of the band’s sold-out four-night engagement at NYC’s legendary Beacon Theatre. For the full details of the tour itinerary, please see below.
“Maggie I’ve Been Searching For Our Son”is described by Finn as “really just about someone who’s been flailing around spiritually looking for answers, trying to make a connection before time runs out.” About the song, The Wall Street Journal noted “[“Maggie”] is full of the richly detailed lyrics that the singer has made a specialty in a career that began in the 1990s with his Minneapolis band Lifter Puller.” Check out the song below:
Listen: Craig Finn – “Maggie I’ve Been Searching For Our Son”
Last week, Finn reached out to his fans and those who’ve already pre-ordered the album via Pledge Music, asking for their assistance in creating the official”Maggie…”video. The song’s lyrics were made available in advance, with Finn encouraging them to put together short clips that will be collected and edited to create the official music video for release in the coming weeks. The video to the fans can be viewed here: (need link)
Pre-ordering the album via Pledge Music includes a free EP featuring the album track “Newmyer’s Roof” and four non-album b-sides. “Newmyer’s Roof,” the first song to be released from the album, was premiered by NPR in June.
Josh Kaufman produced Faith In The Future in the cozy, rustic confines of Woodstock’s The Isokon recording studio and helped Finn stretch the boundaries of his songwriting with confidence, invention and ambition to realize what will be a defining moment in his career.
At times stark and spare, at other times vibrant and dynamic, Faith in the Future is Finn’s most compelling collection thus far, each song a powerfully alluring and subtly nuanced composition wedded to his distinctive short story narratives. Much of the material on Faith in the Future was written after the passing of Finn’s mother, and while none of the songs directly address that loss, the themes of perseverance and finding redemption can be found throughout the album.
“I had both the music and lyrics to these songs, though they changed a great deal in the studio,” Finn explains. “There’s a grandness to The Hold Steady that tends to make me write about bigger, more dramatic themes. Some of these songs are more mundane, with minor slices of life that wouldn’t best be supported by the hugeness of a rock group. It wasn’t always about what we wanted to put in, but what should we leave out? We didn’t want to sermonize or moralize. Just let these songs, and characters, be.”
Craig Finn On Tour
Oct 14 -Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theatre
Oct 15 -Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Oct 16 -Albany, NY @ The Hollow
Oct 17 –Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
Oct 19 -Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
Oct 20 -Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi Fi
Oct 22 -Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Oct 23 -Milwaukee, WI @ The Cactus Club
Oct 24 -Minneapolis, MN @ Women’s Club Theatre
Oct 25 -Saint Paul, MN @ Turf Club
Oct 26 -Rock Island, IL @ Rozz-Tox
Oct 28 –Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
Oct 30 -Cincinnati, OH @ The Ballroom at the Taft
Oct 31 -Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Café
Nov 02 –Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
Nov 03 –Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
Nov 04 -Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Nov 05 –Asbury Park, NJ @ The Wonder Bar
Nov 06 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
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