Robert Finley

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Norwich Arts Centre | 51 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG

14+ (under 16’s to be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18)

Today, Robert Finley announces a brand new headline run of shows in Europe this November in support of his critically acclaimed Easy Eye Sound album Black Bayou. The tour sees Robert returning to many of the cities he had sold out performances in last year. Tickets for this new run of shows goes on sale this week.

Finley’s most recent album, Black Bayou, is an 11-track tour de force that coalesces gospel, blues, soul, and rock into a raw, thundering tribute to Finley’s home state of Louisiana. Telling tales of the bayou from childhood to now, the now 70-year-old Finley takes listeners on a journey that showcases his growly vocals, sultry falsetto and cements him as a living legend.

Listen to Black Bayou HERE

Black Bayou has already been heaped with praise from SPIN, The FADER, American Songwriter, UNCUT, Paste, MOJO, Brooklyn Vegan and a slew of other outlets.

Finley recently announced he’ll be joining The Black Keys as support for many of their North American shows this coming October.

Finley recorded Black Bayou at Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville. It’s the fourth time the duo have worked together, although for this record they did things a little differently. Rather than write songs beforehand—as they did on 2017’s Goin’ Platinum and 2021’s Sharecropper’s Son—they conceived everything in the studio, with Auerbach leading a band of some of the finest players around: drummers Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) and Jeffrey Clemens (G. Love & Special Sauce), bassist Eric Deaton, and legendary Hill Country blues guitarist Kenny Brown, along with vocalists Christy Johnson and LaQuindrelyn McMahon—who just happen to be Finley’s daughter and granddaughter. They worked quickly, devising their parts spontaneously and getting everything in one take.

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