Blues And Soul Sensation Robert Finley Announces New LP, ‘Sharecropper’s Son’
The autobiographical album, which was produced by Dan Auerbach, is out May 21.
Published on
Sharecropper’s Son. Available on May 21 via
Easy Eye Sound, the autobiographical project was co-written and produced by Auerbach, who declared Finley to be “the greatest living soul singer.”
Ahead of the album, Finley is sharing the expressive “Souled Out on You” – a captivating first taste of
Sharecropper’s Son.
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The ballad, Finley explained in a press release, tells “the story of a relationship that’s ending. It’s about someone who takes on everything in the relationship. All the good and the bad and even after all of that, they notice that it just isn’t going to work out and the relationship has run its course. I took all I could take and I’m starting my life over.”
Emily Butler
When we tallied it all up, the artist played the most times on WMOT in the outgoing year was Marcus King. This came mostly on the strength of his album
El Dorado, produced by Dan Auerbach and released in January, before the pandemic forced his large and loud Marcus King Band off the road.
El Dorado was the first recording King released under his name alone, with less focus on his incendiary guitar playing and massive grooves and more on his voice and his songwriting. And it was hailed as another breakthrough for the phenom, not yet 25 years old and riding several different updrafts that have established him as one of the stars of the jam band and Southern blues/rock circuit. The electric guitar is very much back in the spotlight, in part because the South Carolina native rode an early invitation to the Crossroads Festival to theaters and halls across the country, prestige TV appearances and his own Gibson signature guitar to be revealed next year.