[Cover photo credit to Dani Saputo]
Roots Rock duo Goodnight, Texas’ new studio album, Signals, arrives today, on July 19th, and to celebrate, they’ve released another track from the LP with an accompanying music video, “Among Tumbleweeds.”
Singer-songwriter Avi Vinocur has this to say of the track:
“This is a song ultimately about preservation and my feeling that the planet is not ours to destroy.
The song takes place inside an Ansel Adams photograph shot on November 1st of 1941 – his famous “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” – and features my imagining the stories behind the town and its cross tombstones seen lit by the fading sun. To me, the juxtaposition of a tombstone representing a person’s brief life, beneath an adobe tower representing a town’s only slightly longer incorporation, upon a 50 million year old beautiful high desert valley, beneath a 4 billion year old moonrise and sunset contextualizes our microscopic lifespan within the life of our planet itself.
“Living in California in 2024, it is apparent all around us that the climate and weather are changing. Fires are erupting seasonally, wind and storms are more intense. Flooding and drought are more extreme than ever recorded. The indigenous people upon whose land we now live were incredible stewards, leaving every successive generation with something beautiful to share. Despite safeguarding much of the planet’s remaining biodiversity of flora and fauna with millennia of knowledge, indigenous leaders are seldom included in conservation plans.
In favor of capitalism and inconsequential shareholder profits, corporations and the extremely wealthy are poisoning the air and water literally and by funding elections of lawmakers who are consistently rolling back regulations – as if the planet’s health is ours to sell. We are in danger of not leaving, or perhaps we are already beyond leaving, a habitable planet for those coming next.”
GOODNIGHT, TEXAS 2024 TOUR DATES
JUL 19 FRI – Rickshaw Stop @ 7:00pm – San Francisco, CA
JUL 28 SUN – Underground Music Showcase 2024 @ 4:30pm – Denver, CO
AUG 4 SUN – John Craigie with special guests Goodnight, Texas @ 7:00pm – Jackson, WY
AUG 5 MON – KettleHouse Amphitheater @ 8:00pm – Bonner, MT (w/ The Dead South)
AUG 8 THU – Levitt Amphitheatre Colusa @ 6:30pm – Colusa, CA
AUG 13 TUE – Grand Sierra Resort and Casino @ 8:00pm – Reno, NV (w/ The Dead South)
AUG 14 WED – The Stone Pony @ 7:00pm – Asbury Park, NJ (w/ Donavon Frankenreiter)
AUG 15 THU – Burley Oak Brewing Company @ 7:00pm – Berlin, MD (w/ Donavon Frankenreiter)
AUG 16 FRI – Upper Merion Township Building Park @ 4:00pm – King Of Prussia, PA (w/ Donavon Frankenreiter)
AUG 17 SAT – The Rockaway Hotel @ 6:00pm – Queens County, NY (w/ Donavon Frankenreiter)
AUG 18 SUN – Jonathan Edwards Winery @ 7:00pm – North Stonington, CT (w/ Donavon Frankenreiter)
AUG 20 TUE – The Sound @ 8:00pm – Del Mar, CA (w/ The Dead South)
SEP 19 THU – Tractor Tavern @ 7:00pm – Seattle, WA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
SEP 22 SUN – Cascade Equinox Festival – Redmond, OR (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
SEP 24 TUE – Neurolux @ 7:00pm – Boise, ID (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
SEP 26 THU – Crystal Bay Casino @ 7:00pm – Crystal Bay, NV (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
SEP 27 FRI – Harlow’s @ 7:00pm – Sacramento, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
SEP 28 SAT – Chico Women’s Club @ 7:00pm – Chico, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
SEP 29 SUN – St James Park @ 7:00pm – San Jose, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
OCT 2 WED – Casbah @ 7:00pm – San Diego, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
OCT 3 THU – The Venice West @ 7:00pm – Venice, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
OCT 4 FRI – Soho Restaurant & Music Club @ 7:00pm – Santa Barbara, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
OCT 5 SAT – The Siren @ 8:00pm – Morro Bay, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
OCT 10 THU – Folktale Winery & Vineyards @ 7:00pm – Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
OCT 12 SAT – Hopmonk Tavern @ 7:00pm – Novato, CA (w/ Madeline Hawthorne)
