Okkervil River Announces Fall Solo Co-Headlining Tour with Damien Jurado

OKKERVIL RIVER Announces Fall Solo Co-Headlining Tour with Damien Jurado Releases New Single “In A Light” First New Music Since 2018 2nd New Song “It Hasn’t Happened Yet” Coming This Friday

Photo credit: Beth Wawerna Okkervil River’s Will Sheff will return to the stage this fall on a co-headlining U.S. tour with Damien Jurado. The tour, which kicks off on September 21 with two dates at Evanston, IL’s SPACE and wraps December 11 at Bellingham, WA’s Wild Buffalo, includes shows in Nashville, Brooklyn, Big Sur, and two nights at Portland’s Mississippi Studios. All dates are below and tickets are on pre-sale now and will be on sale to the public on Friday HERE.  Alongside the tour announcement, Okkervil River releases new song “In A Light,” the band’s first new music since its acclaimed 2018 LP In the Rainbow Rain. A second new track, “It Hasn’t Happened Yet,” will be released this Friday, May 14. “I wrote ‘In a Light’ with our guitarist Will Graefe right before I moved out of Brooklyn,” says Sheff. “We recorded it in one take at Figure 8 studios, with Frank LoCrasto adding piano and Ryan Dugre on second guitar. It sounded great instantly, but it didn't seem like the right moment to release the track, and the track didn't seem to be quite at home on In the Rainbow Rain. So I kept it under my hat. I'd had ‘It Hasn't Happened Yet’ kicking around as well, and I'd always wanted to release that one on its own but I could never get the recording to sit quite right. Finally I had a tandem eureka moment with both of them - I figured out what I needed to do to fix ‘It Hasn't Happened Yet’ and I felt the time was right for ‘In a Light.’ So I brushed them off and sent them to Dave Cerminara to mix. The whole process was incredibly smooth and easy. I think of these songs as two sides of the same coin, supporting each other by saying two different but complementary things. And even though I started them a couple years in the past they both seem to want to talk about the present and future.” LISTEN TO “IN A LIGHT”

Damien Jurado’s new album The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania is out this Friday, May 14 on Maraqopa Records. Okkervil River (Solo) & Damien Jurado – Fall US Tour   9/21 - Evanston, IL - SPACE 9/22 - Evanston, IL - SPACE 9/23 - Grand Rapids, MI - Wealthy Theatre 9/24 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark 9/25 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall 9/26 - Nelsonville, OH - Stuart’s Opera House 9/28 - Nashville, TN - Third Man Records 9/29 - Atlanta, GA - City Winery 9/30 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre 10/1 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle 10/2 - Vienna, VA - Barns at Wolf Trap * 10/3 - Woodstock, NY Levon Helm Studios ^ 10/5 - Boston, MA - City Winery 10/6 - Brooklyn, NY - To Be Announced 10/7 - Holyoke, MA - Gateway City Arts  12/1 - Santa Ana, CA - Ebell of Santa Ana 12/2 - Ojai, CA - Ojai Women’s Club 12/3 - Oakland, CA - Starline Social Club 12/4 - Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Memorial Library (early show) 12/4 - Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Memorial Library (late show) 12/5 - Sonoma, CA - Sebastiani Theater 12/8 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios 12/9 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios 12/10 - Tacoma, WA - Fawcett Hall 12/11 - Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo   * On sale at a later time ^ with Elvis Perkins

PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR IN THE RAINBOW RAIN: “Will Sheff, the indie-rock singer-songwriter who has led Okkervil River for 20 years, taps his peerless rock history know-how and the humanist vibes he’s recently been picking up at Quaker meetings to come up with the best album of his band’s often-excellent run.” - ROLLING STONE “A mixture of musical reinvigoration — warm, bright, surprisingly playful arrangements that amble and soothe — and a return to vivid and specific storytelling.” - NPR MUSIC okkervilriver.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram