Doyle Bramhall II to Release RICH MAN Album This Fall

Concord Records will release singer-songwriter-guitarist Doyle Bramhall II's latest album Rich Man on September 30, 2016.

The album, long awaited by fans who have followed Bramhall's collaborations with artists as far-ranging as Tedeschi Trucks Band to Roger Waters, is his first in over a decade. The album reflects both his extensive experience in the interim with such artists as Eric Clapton, whom he's worked closely with for more than ten years (and who hails him as one of the most gifted guitarists he's ever heard) and Sheryl Crow, for whom he produced and composed songs for on the 2011 album 100 Miles from Memphis, as well as an intensive spiritual and musical journey that took him to India and Africa in search of new sounds and an inner peace sought following the death of his legendary father Doyle Bramhall.

"I'd been writing pretty consistently for other artists and projects since my last album and had stored a lot of songs, sort of documenting my life story," says Bramhall, whose long list of collaboration credits further includes the likes of Roger Waters, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, B.B. King, T-Bone Burnett, Elton John, Gary Clark Jr., Gregg Allman, Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Billy Preston, Erykah Badu, Questlove and Meshell Ndegeocello.

"I'd been busy touring and producing for other artists, and so I took a hiatus from recording and performing as a solo artist. All those experiences actually helped me develop new skills and I learned how to facilitate my own sound. I feel like the stars finally aligned to allow me to be completely myself as an artist for the first time-singer, guitar player, songwriter, producer- and take things that were happening in my life and put them into music."

But Bramhall correctly notes that his desired sound is "not one thing stylistically, but an amalgam of lot of influences that come out of my life experiences and travels-and what I'm affected and inspired by." To be sure, there's blues on Rich Man, but there's also influences of R&B, Indian music and Arabic music, as well as Bramhall's distinctive guitar work.

"There's a lot to each song, and at the end, when I was sequencing them, I realized they tell a story," continues Bramhall. "It's hard to summarize 70 minutes of music in a couple sentences, because all the songs have dual meanings and themes that apply to a collective experience that parallels my personal experience . Basically, all the songs are steps on a personal journey back to my truth, which comes around full circle from beginning to end on this album. It's a very personal record for me."

"When I played the album in sequence I realized that it ties everything together and brings the journey full circle: I start and end with American blues influences, which are the fundamental foundation of my music, and then also incorporate other influences of Eastern, African, Arabic and classical music which have always deeply affected me.

Rich Man, then, manifests Bramhall's "life journey to find my voice and grow as a creative person and as a man to get to this place, which feels like a new beginning for me."

"I read a quote from Charles Mingus," he concludes. "He felt that he was not just playing a style of music so much as expressing the sounds of his life and experiences through the medium of music. I very much relate to that."

TOUR DATES:

12-Oct-16	FTC StageOne	Fairfield	CT
13-Oct-16	Infinity Hall	Norfolk	CT
14-Oct-16	Daryl's House	Pawling	NY
16-Oct-16	Bowery Ballroom	New York	NY
18-Oct-16	Port City Music Hall	Portland	ME
19-Oct-16	Bull Run Restaurant	Shirley	MA
21-Oct-16	Tupelo Music Hall	Londonderry	NH
22-Oct-16	Knickerbocker Café	Westerly	RI
23-Oct-16	Mexicali Live	Teaneck	NJ
25-Oct-16	Willie's Locally Known	Lexington	KY
27-Oct-16	City Winery	Chicago	IL
28-Oct-16	Old Rock House	St Louis	MO
30-Oct-16	City Winery	Nashville	TN
01-Nov-16	Rams Head	Annapolis	MD
02-Nov-16	Hamilton	Washington	DC
04-Nov-16	Ardmore	Philadelphia	PA
05-Nov-16	Landing Pad	Rocky Mount	VA
06-Nov-16	Neighborhood Theater	Charlotte	NC
10-Nov-16	Scout Bar	Houston	TX
11-Nov-16	The Parish	Austin	TX
12-Nov-16	Granada Theater	Dallas	TX
15-Nov-16	Sams	San Antonio	TX
17-Nov-16	Jake's	Lubbock	TX
18-Nov-16	VZD's	Oklahoma City	OK
19-Nov-16	Backyard Waco

Official website: http://db2music.com/

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