Atlanta-based American guitarist Eddie 9V is pleased to announce his new album Saratogareleased by Ruf Records on Friday 22nd November 2024. Pre-order the album HERE.
The album features the new single “Halo” released Friday 4 October 2024. The single is available on all streaming platforms HERE.
The announcement of the new album, dovetails Eddie’s November and December UK Tour where he will support Robert Jon & The Wreck at Oxford, Academy 2 (Nov 30) and Nottingham, Rock City (Dec 1), followed by headline UK club shows Newcastle, Cluny 2 (Dec 2), Edinburgh, The Caves (Dec 3), London, The Black Heart (Dec 4), and Manchester, Retro Bar (Dec 5).
Tickets are available from www.alttickets.com/eddie-9v-tickets & www.eddie9volt.com/tour.
Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on new studio album Saratoga. It’s a record that will thrill both newcomers and fans who have trailed Eddie since the start, showcasing his fresh, fiery spin on Southern soul, blues, rock and funk, with his signature wit and sharp observations of modern America placing him squarely in the here-and-now. “I do think it’s a wonderful road trip album,” he nods.
Eddie 9V has powered up. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local stage, the Georgia-born bandleader announced himself as an artist to watch. But in the last few meteoric years, Eddie’s music has crossed oceans and airwaves, transcending his cult-hero status to become a beacon for fans of real music everywhere. “Eddie 9V is something else,” wrote the UK’s Classic Rock Magazine – “A man who genuinely inhabits golden-era American roots, playing the most instinctive blues you’ll hear all year.”
Check out the gig listings and you’ll find this rising star playing a bigger club every time he blows through town. Scan the charts and you’ll find his most recent album, 2022’s Capricorn, locking horns with the giants of rock ‘n’ roll. “Capricorn debuted at #1 and that was a cool feeling for a week, until Bonnie Raitt kicked us off,” reflects Eddie with a smile. “But hey, that’s a cool story to be able to say…”
We’ve rode shotgun with Eddie for a couple of decades now. Born Brooks Mason in June 1996, he was playing guitar by the age of six (“One of those with the speaker in it – the most bang for your buck, y’know?”). Even then, manufactured pop music held nothing for him, and his years at Union Grove High School were instead soundtracked by local heroes like Sean Costello, alongside his studies of “older cats” like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King and Rory Gallagher.
“I wanted to see what made them groove and tick,” he explains. “I’ve been making up lyrics on the spot for years. I believe that came from my Uncle Brian at our family fish fries – he taught me about what made people laugh and what kept the audience’s attention.”
Coming up on his home state’s live circuit – first with covers band The Smokin’ Frogs, then with highly rated blues-rockers The Georgia Flood – Mason soon turned heads, even representing the Atlanta Blues Society at the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis. But his true birth as an artist came when he buried his birth name and adopted that striking solo moniker. “A lot of people wanted me to be the Brooks Mason Blues Band, but that’s been done,” he reasons. “I wanted to start from scratch – and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.”
From the start, Eddie’s output pricked up ears, with 2019’s “Left My Soul In Memphis” dubbed “fresh and life-affirming” by Rock and Blues Muse and the chaotic free-for-all of 2021’s “Little Black Flies” praised by Classic Rock Magazine as “like having all your best mates in the speakers”. In 2023, he got his best reviews yet for Capricorn, a record tracked at the near-mythical Macon studio of the same name, that led Classic Rock’s Henry Yates to declare: “As an artist, he sounds fully charged.”
But the great artists evolve, and in both its songcraft and execution, Saratogafinds Eddie painting with more colours from his palette. “I was shooting for a more Americana-type album this time, less blues songs and solos and more focusing on the songwriting,” he explains of the eleven originals co-written with his brother, the much-respected Southern musician, Lane Kelly. Unlike the anarchy of earlier albums, meanwhile, the sessions mostly saw the multi-instrumentalist siblings hunkered down at their own Echo Deco Studio in Atlanta, self-producing the new tracks with Patrick Meese and inviting guest players to supply horns, fiddle and lap steel.
EDDIE 9V
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2024 UK TOUR
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
ALTTICKETS.COM & EDDIE9VOLT.COM
*Special guest of Robert Jon & The Wreck
*OXFORD, ACADEMY 2
SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2024
190 Cowley Rd, Oxford, OX4 1UE
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2academyoxford
*NOTTINGHAM, ROCK CITY
SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 2024
8 Talbot St, Nottingham, NG1 5GG
www.rock-city.co.uk
NEWCASTLE, CLUNY 2
MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 2024
36 Lime St, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 2PQ
https://thecluny.com
EDINBURGH, THE CAVES
TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER 2024
8-10 Niddry St South, Edinburgh, EH1 1NS
https://unusualvenuesedinburgh.com
LONDON, THE BLACK HEART
WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2024
3 Greenland Pl, Camden Town, London NW1 0AP
www.ourblackheart.com
MANCHESTER, RETRO BAR
THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER 2024
78 Sackville St, Manchester, M1 3NJ
www.retromanchester.com
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