Duke Garwood starts Europe/UK tour this month

Rogues Gospel is Duke Garwood’s 7th official studio album, and was released in November '22 on God Unknown Records. Though formally a blues album, it’s all about the ambience. 

Recorded in drummer Paul May’s bungalow during the sweltering summer of 2020, this wonderfully elemental set conjures the unhurried vibe those sessions: Garwood’s guitar shimmering like a heat-haze, his gnarly growl incanting mantras and haiku, May holding these enigmatic grooves in place. A pervading voodoo spook suggests Dr. John at his medicinal peak, while Garwood’s laudable intolerance of genre cliché finds him seeking ley-lines linking the Southern Delta with Eastern mysticism and Krautrock’s potent reiterations on Maharaja Blues, which could easily have sloughed its trance-like furrow for another 10 glorious minutes. 

The simmering, spiritual blues of Love Comet friends Garwood adding his glowering saxophones to the mix: closer Lion On Ice, meanwhile channels the wounded, heroic darkness of fallen comrade and collaborator, Mark Lanegan.

Starting this month Duke Garwood and his band will be touring across Europe and the UK:

24/01: Brussels, BE - Botanique
25/01: Brugge, BE - Cactus Muziekcentrum
26/01: Liège, BE - Reflektor
27/01:  Eindhoven, NL - Effenaar
28/01: Volendam, NL - PX
29/01: Arnhem, NL - Luxor Live
07/02: Portsmouth, UK - Edge of the Wedge
09/02: Ramsgate, UK - The Music Hall
17/02: Exeter, UK - Cavern Club
18/02: St Leonards on Sea, UK - The Piper
22/02: Birkenhead, UK - Future Yard
23/02: Glasgow, UK - The Hug & Pint
24/02: Todmorden, UK - The Golden Lion
26/02: London, UK - The Lexington
10/03: St. Gallen, CH -  Grabenhalle
11/03: Zürich, CH - El Lokal
12/03: Fiesole (Firenze), IT - Cinema-Teatro del Circolo Arci Girone