Adia Victoria Announces US Tour Dates Supporting Jason Isbell

ADIA VICTORIA ANNOUNCES US TOUR DATES SUPPORTING JASON ISBELL SHOWS KICK OFF JANUARY 8, 2022 NEW ALBUM -  A SOUTHERN GOTHIC - OUT NOW VIA CANVASBACK Features Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Matt Beringer, And Kyshona Armstrong Co-Produced by Adia Victoria and Mason Hickman & Executive Produced By  T. Bone Burnett Season 2 of Sono’s “Call & Response,” Hosted By Adia, Airing Now

(Photo by Huy Nguyen)    Adia Victoria has announced the first tour in support of her recently released and critically acclaimed new album A Southern Gothic.  Adia will be supporting Jason Isbell on his January tour.  The dates kick off January 8 in Knoxville, TN and conclude in Augusta, GA on January 23.  Tickets are on sale on Friday, October 22 at 10AM local time and are available via adiavictoria.com.      With A Southern Gothic, Adia continues her journey through the conflicts of the American South and the troubling resonance of its past.  Sonically, the album is full of frequent juxtaposition. It is equal parts historical montage and modern prophesy, dark and light, love and loathing. The 11 tracks are the musical embodiment of the relationship that so many people, especially Black women, have with the South.  The album was executive produced by T Bone Burnett and co-produced by Adia and Mason Hickman.  A Southern Gothic features guest appearances by addition Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Matt Beringer, and Kyshona Armstrong.    Earlier this year Sonos Radio launched Call & Response, a weekly show hosted by Adia that celebrates the communal spirit of music making and listening. The show is framed up as a dialogue between Adia and today’s leading artists.  Season 1 guests included Jamila Woods, Brittany Howard, and Brandi Carlile.  Season 2 of Call & Response is underway and draws upon the musical and emotional themes of A Southern Gothic.  Isbell was Adia’s first guest and this week’s episode features Dr. Regina N. Bradley ("Bottom of the Map" podcast).  Building on some of the themes of last week's episode, Regina and Adia talk about the history of Southern Black women embracing their sexuality through blues music, and how Southern hip-hop continues to bring focus to issues left unaddressed by previous generations.  Find Sonos’ Call & Response via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Mixcloud.

Praise for Adia Victoria’s A Southern Gothic   "In the decade-plus she's spent perfecting her version of blues, the South Carolina-born Nashvillian has studied how the heavy air of the South — its buggy, vine-twisted landscapes and historical decadence, the stain of racism and cleansing downpours of resistance — shapes its people...A Southern Gothicfully explores this experience.” NPR  “(A Southern Gothic’s) songs deal with power, mortality and, in ‘Mean-Hearted Woman,’ heartbreak and revenge. Lingering on one chord, with a plucked guitar and a persistent tambourine, she sings about being dumped and replaced, and while her voice stays quiet and breathy, she moves bewilderment and heartache to fury, with a death threat that’s no less menacing for staying quiet.” THE NEW YORK TIMES "An eerie, acoustic-guitar-driven tune that expands to thick bass and a ghostly orchestra of strings and banjo, “Magnolia Blues” traces one woman’s journey back home. In the process, it reclaims a piece of Southern iconography for all Southerners." ROLLING STONE "(an) album of cinematic, atmospheric blues" STEREOGUM “With a fiery brilliance, A Southern Gothic subverts the title phrase. Victoria tells about the South from the perspective of Black women in a collection of mesmerizing songs that traverse the rawness of Hill Country blues, the country soul of Memphis, the urban rap of Atlanta, the spiraling layers of folk blues, and the sultry languor of smoky jazz.”  NO DEPRESSION "With its duality of ghostly yarns and righteous self-empowerment, A Southern Gothic couldn’t have come out at a better time—right at the start of fall, so you can curl up by a fireplace while you enjoy it with a glass of red wine or bourbon."  CHICAGO READER  “It is the album of her career. It’s not just a celebration of the blues as a vital, historical genre, 'A Southern Gothic' is a contemporary resurrection, a record that breathes life back into so many of the voices that have inspired Victoria on her own journey.” EAST NASHVILLIAN “Adia Victoria’s A Southern Gothic Boldly Redefines The Narrative Of America’s Evolving South” CMT “It's a powerful album, one that looks at classic blues through a modern lens, and carries forth the messages of those songs.”  BROOKLYN VEGAN "brilliant storytelling is on full display" CONSEQUENCE "(On A Southern Gothic) she reclaims a genre associated with white artists whose work reflects a region built on the blood and sweat of Black people." NASHVILLE SCENE "It’s clear the musician is taking influence from the rich history of Southern Black storytelling, and using it to push her rich folk-blues fusion somewhere powerfully new and vital, yet steeped in tradition...Victoria’s third record promises to serve as a compelling bridge between sounds of the past and present." AV CLUB "Victoria’s version of 'You Was Born To Die' features a stomp-ass guitar solo from Jason Isbell...Victoria shares vocals on the song with Margo Price and the powerful singer Kyshona Armstrong, and all three of them sing the hell out of it.   STEREOGUM “A Southern Gothic (is) a record full of tension, drama and new-to-you truth.”   AMERICANA HIGHWAYS ""Magnolia Blues." In this haunting, hypnotizing, banjo-spiked Southern gothic blues"  MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE “Future generations will regard Adia Victoria as one of this era’s finest artists.”  THE REVUE “‘You Was Born to Die’ is a dark, rootsy slow-burner that erupts into a ferocious cacophony of screeching guitars and searing vocals. CONSEQUENCE "Harnessed with her guitar and smooth vocals, her gothic blues is dark, raw and resounding. As a necessary outcry of advocacy for change, it is laced with depth and morose truths." LIGHTNING 100 Adia Victoria Tour Dates 1/8/22 - Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre * 1/9/22 - Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre * 1/11/22 - Asheville, TN - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium * 1/12/22 - Asheville, TN - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium * 1/14/22 - Louisville, KY - Palace Theatre * 1/15/22 - Louisville, KY - Palace Theatre * 1/16/22 - Columbus, OH - Palace Theatre * 1/20/22 - Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium * 1/21/22 - Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium * 1/22/22 - Augusta, GA - Bell Auditorium * * = supporting Jason Isbell