Mike Delevante spent the 1990s recording and touring as half of Americana duo The Delevantes with his older brother Bob. Now, he has released the official video for “The Rain Never Came,” a single that will be released this Friday, March 21, 2025. It’s the first single from September Days, out April 11, 2025 through Truly Handmade Records. It marks his first solo album.

To produce September Days, Mike enlisted Joe Pisapia, who had also moved to Nashville from New Jersey with his own brother in the 1990s. They worked at Pisapia’s Middletree Studio in East Nashville, with Pisapia playing guitar, keyboards and pedal steel on the sessions.

They brought in Garry Tallent (E Street Band) and Will Honaker on bass, Bryan Owings and Jamie Dick for drums, and his brother Bob to play harmonica. Mike sang all the vocals.

Delevante shares the inspiration for the new song:

This is for all the doomsayers out there trying to scare everyone by predicting the end times. Often, it’s a mix of politics and religion with built-in motives. How many times have we been given a date on the calendar that’s come and gone? And they just keep coming. Maybe they’re right, and maybe the end is soon but what I remember from my years of Catholic school is the Bible says we will never know the day. And it’s foolish to predict.