Lucy Dacus shares new song off ‘Historian’

Lucy Dacus gives us another taste of 'Historian', with the single "Next of Kin"
Lucy Dacus

“This is the album I needed to make," says Dacus, who views Historian as her definitive statement as a songwriter and musician. "Everything after this is a bonus. “’Next Of Kin’ is the thesis statement of the album,” says Lucy. “It's a breaking point after a build up of difficult subject matter. It's a song about accepting fate, forgetting fear, and allowing yourself to be incomplete always.”

Dacus and her band recorded the album in Nashville last March, working again with No Burden producer Collin Pastore, and mixed it a few months later with producer John Congleton. The sound they created, with substantial input from multi-instrumentalist and live guitarist Jacob Blizard, is far richer and fuller than the debut.

She emphasizes that she does not take her newfound platform as a touring musician for granted.  "I have this job where I get to talk to people I don't know every night," she remembers thinking on the long van rides across America to support No Burden. Realizing that she would have a dramatically expanded audience for her second album, she felt an urgent call to make something worthwhile: "The next record should be the thing that's most important to say."

Lucy Dacus
Historian 
Tracklist:

1. Night Shift 
2. Addictions 
3. The Shell 
4. Nonbeliever 
5. Yours & Mine 
6. Body To Flame
7. Timefighter 
8. Next Of Kin 
9. Pillar Of Truth 
10. Historians 

Lucy Dacus
Tour Dates:

March 2nd Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
March 7th Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
March 8th Charleston, SC @ Pour House
March 9th Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
March 10th Nashville, TN @ The High Watt
March 19th Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
March 20th Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
March 21st San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
March 22nd Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
March 23rd Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place 
March 24th San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
March 26th Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
March 27th Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
March 28th Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
March 30th Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
March 31st Denver, CO @ Globe Hall 
April 2nd Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge 
April 4th Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry 
April 5th Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon 
April 6th Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
April 7th Indianapolis, IN @ The HI-FI 
April 8th Columbus, OH @ The Basement
April 9th Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern 
April 11th Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
April 13th Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
April 14th Washington DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
April 19th Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
April 20th Glasgow, UK @ The Hug and Pint
April 21st Manchester, UK @ Gullivers 
April 22nd Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hounds 2
April 24th Bristol, UK @ Louisiana
April 25th London, UK @ Omeara
April 26th Brighton, UK @ The Hope and Ruin
April 27th Paris, FR @ Espace B
April 30th Copenhagen, DE @ Stengade
May 1st Hamburg, GE @ Prinzenbar
May 3rd Cologne, GE @ Blue Shell
May 4th Amsterdam, NE @ Sugar Factory
June 14th-June 17th Dover, DE @ Firefly Festival

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