Lee Bains + The Glory Fires have joined Don Giovanni Records for an upcoming album to be called Old-Time Folks, which releases on August 5, 2022.
While still half a year away, the band is active now, with a US tour underway (including a busy stop at SXSW) and a new single called "God's A-Working, Man" which is nearly 8-minutes long and captures the group's working class southern rock meets punk aesthetic.
Speaking of the single, Bains says:
In the last couple of years, like a lot of folks I know, I’ve gone through periods of bewilderment and despair about the state of the world, between racist police violence and carceralism, economic austerity and exploitation, gender and sexuality policing, rampant imperialism, the alienation of technology, the ravages of the pandemic. What’s apparent is that the world and its systems can be brutal, isolating, cold, hateful. Folks I look to have suggested I try and look around here in my place, and to look around through time, and look for the ways in which another type of spirit moves through creation. All around is evidence of a liberatory, healing, equalizing, loving, collective, accepting, faithful spirit working through people and places. Those movements unfold through and over generations and decades and centuries. They touch each and every human life. I never fully know where they’re at or where they’re going. But I get glimpses. People working together with that spirit to take care of each other and, in so doing, themselves—to create something on earth as it is in heaven.
The band is scheduled for Tulsa, OK tonight.
Lee Bains + The Gloryfires live dates:
Sat 3/12 - Tulsa, OK - Whittier Bar
Sun 3/13 - Denton, TX - Dan’s Silverleaf
Wed 3/16 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Sidebar @ 5:20 p.m.
Thu 3/17 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Sidebar @ 4:15 p.m.
Thu 3/17 - Austin, TX - SXSW - The Creek and the Cave (Official SXSW) - 12:00 midnight
Fri 3/18 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Breakaway Records @ 1:00 p.m.
Fri 3/18 - Austin, TX - SXSW Sidebar @ 4:00 p.m.
Sat 3/19 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Sidebar @ 1:30 p.m.
Sat 3/19 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Full Circle Bar @ 4:15 p.m.
Sun 3/20 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Sidebar @ 7:00 p.m.
Tue 3/22 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
Wed 3/23 - Hattiesburg, MS - Hattiesburg Community Art Center
Thu 3/24 - Montgomery, AL - The Sanctuary
Fri 3/25 - Mobile, AL - Alabama Music Box
Sat 3/26 - Tuscaloosa, AL - Druid City Brewing Co.
Thu 4/21 - Greenville, SC - Radio Room
Fri 4/22 - Raleigh, NC - Wicked Witch
Sat 4/23 - Washington, DC - Quarry House
Sun 4/24 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny and Brenda’s
Tue 4/26 - New York, NY - TV Eye
Wed 4/27 - Morgantown, WV - 123 Pleasant St.
Thu 4/28 - Whitesburg, KY - Appalshop
Fri 4/29 - Greensboro, NC - Flat Iron
Sat 4/30 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone (matinee show)
Old-Time Folks Track list:
1. Old-Time Folks (Invocation)
2. Lizard People
3. The Battle Of Atlanta
4. (In Remembrance Of The) 40-Hour Week
5. Outlaws
6. Gentlemen
7. Rednecks
8. Post-Life
9. Caligula
10. Done Playing Dead
11. Old Friends
12. God's A-Workin', Man
13. Old-Time Folks (Benediction)
