[Cover photo credit to Sasha Pedro]
Kris Delmhorst has released “Won’t Be Long”, the second single off her tenth full-length album, Ghosts in the Garden, scheduled for release on March 7th, 2025. “Won’t Be Long” conveys “restlessness and uncertainty” with exhilarating energy. Delmhorst is joined on vocals by guest Rachel Baiman on the track.
Delmhorst has also announced tour dates, which will start in the Midwest on March 4 – 8, continue to the West Coast March 26 – April 5 then end in her home region of the Northeast May 1- 10th. She will be joined by her band, Erik Koskinen on guitar, Jeremy Moses Curtis on bass and Ray Rizzo on drums, who also played on the new album.
Delmhorst shares about the new song:
I wrote ‘Won’t Be Long’ during the quarantine year, marinating in the ambient restlessness of being stuck at home while the world was careening off the rails in various ways. A few years have gone by, but it turns out there’s still more than enough uneasiness and frustration in the air for this song to speak to!
When I asked Rachel Baiman to add backing vocals, we’d never spoken or met, but I’d recently fallen in love with her record Common Nation of Sorrow and I kept hearing her voice on this song as clear as day in my imagination, so I took the leap of asking. Her voice amplifies the energy of the track in the perfect way.
On most of Ghosts in the Garden the band plays with deep restraint, and it was fun to let them off the leash on this song and watch them run.
The new album was tracked live at Great North Sound Society, a studio built into an 18th-century Maine farmhouse with a core band of Ray Rizzo (Josh Ritter, Anaïs Mitchell) on drums, Jeremy Moses Curtis (Jeffrey Foucault, Booker T) on bass, and Minnesota songwriter Erik Koskinen on guitars. Engineer Sam Kassirer added keys, and Rich Hinman contributed pedal steel.
Delmhorst also invited in a host of fellow songwriters to add vocals to the finished tracks. The guests included Anaïs Mitchell, Rose Cousins, Anna Tivel, Ana Egge, Taylor Ashton, Rachel Baiman, Jabe Beyer, and Jeffrey Foucault.
TOUR DATES:
MIDWEST
3/4 Minn State U – Mankato, MN^
3/5 Trempealeau Hotel – Trempealeau, WI
3/6 Evanston SPACE – Evanston, IL*
3/7 The Bur Oak – Madison, WI*
3/8 Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN*
WEST COAST
3/26 Show Bar, Portland OR
3/27 New Prospect Theatre, Bellingham, WA
3/28 The Rabbit Box, Seattle, WA
3/29 The Red Barn, Hood River, OR
3/30 The Hybrid, Eugene, OR
4/1 Arcata Playhouse, Arcata, CA
4/2 Hopmonk Tavern, Novato, CA
4/3 Ivy Room, Albany, CA
4/5 McCabe’s, Santa Monica, CA
NORTHEAST
5/1 Word Barn, Exeter, NH
5/2 Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownfield, ME#
5/4 ZenBarn, Waterbury, VT
5/7 Jammin Java, Vienna, VA*
5/8 Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY≠
5/9 Iron Horse, Northampton, MA*
5/10 Groton Hill Music Center, Groton, MA*
^ Erik Koskinen opens
* Rose Cousins opens
# Jeffrey Foucault, split bill
≠ Special guests Ana Egge and Rose Cousins
More info at krisdelmhorst.com
