New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Amythyst Kiah made her late-night TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing her Grammy-nominated song, "Black Myself."
"Black Myself" is the lead single off her forthcoming album and Rounder Records debut Wary + Strange out June 18th. The radically reimagined version of her Grammy-nominated song departs from the mid-tempo acoustic original recorded by Our Native Daughters, the all-women-of-color supergroup she co-founded with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla and
Allison Russell. The track has been hailed by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, Billboard, and NPR, who called it a "breakthrough for an artist on the rise." The accompanying video for "Black Myself" debuted on MTV, BET and CMTplatforms. Watch here.
Amythyst shares the third track from Wary + Strange, "Hangover Blues." The track documents a tumultuous period in her late 20's when she took up drinking in order to ease the social anxiety that had plagued her since childhood. Featuring production by Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, Amos Lee, Andrew Bird), and a brilliantly untethered guitar performance from
Blake Mills (Fiona Apple,
Alabama Shakes), "Hangover Blues'' perfectly captures the angst of being stuck in a bad habit, its swampy rhythms echoing the sticky unease of morning-after regret.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WARY + STRANGE:
"She revisits ["Black Myself"] with a fuller studio production, reinforcing its distorted guitar with more effects, more layers and a bigger beat, adding extra clout" - The New York Times
"Breakthrough for an artist on the rise" - NPR
"Amythyst Kiah is done hiding in plain sight...a stunning original" - Ebony
"Raw and strong" - MTV
"Talented
Black Musical Artists on the Rise in 2021" - PEOPLE
"Blistering… a must-listen about living in the land of white privilege" - Billboard
"Brutal and beautiful… her voice is admirably resilient" - Consequence of Sound
"'Black Myself' shows the beauty of Blackness while still highlighting the injustices--past and present--that
Black people are faced with today." - The Root
"Amythyst Kiah is an original. Holding nothing back. The message and the music punch you right in the gut." - Bob Lefsetz
"Channels emotion into palpable and impassioned rock energy… bluesy, dramatic, and fervently soulful" - Atwood Magazine
"
Powerful" - The Boot
UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
May 21 - Freight
Train Blues (virtual)
May 27 - Chesterfield, VA - Chesterfield County Public Library (virtual)
May 28 - Savannah, GA - Savannah
Music Festival
May 29 - Orlando, FL - Frontyard Festival*
May 30 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheatre*
June 5 - Davenport, IA - Adler Theater
June 12 - The
Future is…
Queer Country (virtual)
June 13 - Charlestown, WV - Mountain Stage
Radio Show @ Cultural Center Theatre
June 15 - Celebrate Pride and Connect through
Music (virtual)
June 16 - Charleston, SC - Charleston
Music Hall
June 17 - Raleigh, NC - AJ
Fletcher Opera House @ Duke
Energy Center
June 18 - Abbeville, SC - Juneteenth Celebration @ Abbeville Opera House
June 19 - Galax, VA - Blue Ridge
Music Center
June 20 - Gloucester, VA - Flat Iron Crossroads
June 25 - Knoxville, TN - The Mill & Mine
July 4 - Bristol, VA - Border Bash @ Cumberland
Square Park
July 17 - Stone Ridge, NY - Stone Ridge Orchard
July 24 - Malvern, PA - People's Light Theater
Aug. 2 - Chautauqua, NY - Chautauqua Amphitheater
Aug. 3 - Cleveland, OH - Cain Park
Aug. 7 - Madison, WI - Sugar Maple
Music Festival
Aug. 27 - Lewisburg, PA - Weis Center for the Performing Arts @ Bucknell University
Aug. 28 - Hudson River Park Blues & BBQ Festival (virtual)
Sept. 10 - Bristol, VA - Bristol Rhythm &
Roots Festival
Sept. 24 - North Adams, MA - FreshGrass
Sept. 30 - North Bethesda, MD - Strathmore
*supporting Indigo Girls.
