We recently shared the news of Portland, Oregon folk singer Anna Tivel’s new album Outsiders, which will be released on August 19 via Mama Bird Recording Co. The album was recorded almost entirely live to tape in Rock Island, IL, the 11-track set is a collaborative exploration from the same vibrant group of friends who helped craft Tivel’s acclaimed record, The Question, including producer & multi-instrumentalist Shane Leonard and engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens).
The album’s announcement was accompanied by the stunning title track and video Outsiders, and this week, she unveiled the second album single ‘Black Umbrella’ which is accompanied by a visual filmed by Eric J. Loeffler.
Anna Tivel on Black Umbrella:
“‘Black Umbrella’ is a song about all the ways we fail to really see each other and the systems in place that so often serve only a lucky few. It’s about poverty and desperation, race and power, history, opportunity, and otherness. I wrote it in a motel in Virginia. Sometimes songs are like blocks of marble you slowly chip away at hoping to reveal a hidden truth. Sometimes they come rushing and insistent, everything at once in a sort of manic out of body flood, you’re there but also far away watching the animal of yourself express something without thinking of form or craft, just the raw moan of an emotion building up. Black Umbrella was the latter kind of song, written on a day off on tour after a long drive through small towns barely holding on, past trailer parks and run down shacks, bars, pawn shops and rusty church marquees, past kids sitting outside every gas station with a hardness in their eyes that only comes from the continually reinforced failure of those big promises of youth and freedom and country to extend to them.”
Anna Tivel is currently touring throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, see details below.
Pre-Order Outsiders via Bandcamp: https://annativel.bandcamp.com/
Anna Tivel On Tour:
July 26 – Range Rider – Enterprise, OR
July 27 – The Olympic Venue – Boise, ID
July 28 – Sawtooth Valley Gathering – Stanley, ID
July 29 – Live From The Divide – Bozeman, MT
July 30 – Lucky You Lounge – Spokane, WA
July 31 – Heartwood Center – Sandpoint, ID
Aug 2 – Asylum for Art – Calgary, AB
Aug 3 – The Red Hart – Red Deer, AB
Aug 4 – Edmonton Folk Festival – Edmonton, AB
Aug 9 – Skyhouse Sessions – Kelowna, BC
Aug 10 – The Wise – Vancouver, BC
Aug 11 – Miller’s – Carnation, WA
Aug 15 – Himlavalvet – Stockholm, SE
Aug 16 – Ettans Pub – Mariehamn, FI
Aug 18 – Kulturkvarteret – Örebro, SE
Aug 19 – Rootsy Summer Fest – Falkenberg, SE
Aug 20 – Österlän Americana Festival – Löderup, SE
Aug 21 – The Never-Ending Mind-Expanding Coconut Experience Musikkfestival – Halden, NO
Aug 25 – Tønder Festival – Tønder, DK
Aug 26 – The Nest Church House – London, UK*
Aug 26 – Greenbelt Festival – Kettering, UK
Aug 30 – Gullivers – Manchester, UK*
Sept 1 – The Wight Bear – Bournemouth, UK*
Sept 2 – St. Matthias Church – London, UK*
Sept 4 – Luxor Live – Arnhem, NL*
Sept 5 – Muziekgebouw Eindhoven – Eindhoven, NL*
Oct 6 – The Basement – Nashville, TN^
Oct 8 – Isis Music Hall – Asheville, NC^
Oct 9 – The Evening Muse – Charlotte, NC^
Oct 11 – The Pinhook – Durham, NC^
Oct 12 – Bourgie Nights – Wilmington, NC^
Oct 13 – Blue Jay Listening Room – Jacksonville, FL^
Oct 14 – Eddie’s Attic – Decatur, GA^
Oct 15 – Hernando’s Hideaway – Memphis, TN^
*appearing with Jeffrey Martin
^appearing with Lou Hazel