Marcus King Band release latest album, Darling Blue, their first in 7 years – Backseat Mafia

Marcus King Band’s highly anticipated 4th album, Darling Blue, is out now via American Recordings/Republic Records.

Alongside the release, the band is sharing the new track ‘The Shadows’ featuring GRAMMY-nominated artist Noah Cyrus. 

Ahead of the album, the band shared songs ‘Heartlands’ and ‘Here Today’ featuring Jamey Johnson and Kaitlin Butts. The band has also shared ‘Carry Me Home’, ‘Carolina Honey’ and ‘Honky Tonk Hell’, the latter of which became the fastest single of King’s career to hit one million streams.

Darling Blue finds Grammy-nominated Marcus King reuniting with his longtime live band for their first studio album together since 2018’s Carolina Confessions. Inspired heavily by the Blue Ridge Mountains in his home state of South Carolina, the new album incorporates elements of country, folk, psychedelic rock and Motown-era R&B, continuing the conversation about King’s experience with addiction and depression.

“It truly felt like home,” King details. “Like my band and I were just working out songs to perform live but ended up creating a piece of recorded music for our fans to hear. Our goal is always to be a vessel and allow the music to flow through us and tap into something that’s already there in the room. But more than anything I’ve done before, this album felt like a real concerted effort to make music for myself, and for ourselves as a band—creating for the love of creating and being as honest as we possibly can. We put everything we had into making something that we love and we have faith that the audience will feel that and love it, too.”

Greenville, South Carolina-born, Nashville-based Marcus King started performing alongside his blues guitarist father when he was just eight years old. He made his solo debut with El Dorado (2020), produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. The album was met with widespread acclaim, going on to earn King his landmark Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.

He followed up the success of El Dorado with Young Blood (2022), also produced by Auerbach. Last year King returned with his third album, Mood Swings, produced by Rick Rubin.

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