Jack Barksdale will be releasing the EP Out of Order on September 13th, 2024, and new single “Freakshow” is out now alongside a video. The song takes an interesting approach to difference and judging others, all set in an eerie atmosphere.

Barksdale comments on the single:

It’s strange, becoming aware of your brain growing up. You start being more conscious of being in the moment. I co-wrote ‘Freak Show’ with Alabama singer-songwriter Matt Prater. We have a mutual friend and fellow songwriter, Abe Partridge, who uses chaos and dissonance as scene-setting and storytelling tools to take the audience to a new realm with him. Matt and I both picked up on the power of this technique and wanted to try it out. That was where we started.

Barksdale adds:

We ended up making it about this guy who goes to the circus to make fun of the ‘freaks,’ but he’s the one everyone is pointing and laughing at — which I thought was a pretty good message! 

For the single, Barksdale chose to work again with Producer Mark Edgar Stuart.

Barksdale, who is 17 years old, released his latest album in 2022, Death of a Hummingbird. Out of Order marks Barksdale’s first collection of new songs since Phantom Trails, an all-instrumental collaboration with Mike Meadows released last November, and singles like this summer’s “How’s It Gonna End”/“Yesterday’s Here”, a pair of Tom Waits covers recorded in Austin with Canadian artist Lindi Ortega, also produced by Meadows. 

TOUR DATES:

Aug 22     The Windmill    (w/Lindi Ortega)       Dogpound, AZ
Aug 23     Double Dragon    (w/Lindi Ortega)    Edmonton, AB
Oct. 11     Heights Theater                                Houston, TX
Oct. 12     Kessler Theater                                 Dallas, TX
Oct. 19     Gram Parsons Guitar Pull                   Waycross, GA