Over the past decade or so, the New York singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy has built up a truly solid catalog, and it just keeps growing. Glaspy released her album Echo The Diamond in 2023, and she followed it up with the 2024 EP The Sun Doesn’t Think. Last year, Glaspy covered Wilco with Norah Jones and Nico (or really Jackson Browne) with James Bay. Now, Glaspy is ready to announce I Am Both, a new album produced by her fellow singer-songwriter Joe Henry.
Glaspy wrote the songs on I Am Both longhand and on typewriter after disconnecting from social media. Doesn’t that sound nice? I think that sounds nice. She and Joe Henry recorded the LP with a team of veteran session musicians. Album opener “Michigan” is a lovely conversational ramble that tells a story about an ex who wants to get back together: “You said you didn’t want me/ Then why did you come all this way?/ You said you didn’t need me/ Well who’s standing in whose driveway?”
In a press release, Glaspy says, “I was in Michigan a couple years back and had a really beautiful time and thought about how New Yorkers sometimes fantasize about the countryside as a retreat from the intensity of the city. It turned into a song about someone going through a bad breakup and then deciding to just leave the city behind.” Below, check out the studio version of “Michigan” and a video of Glaspy playing a live solo-acoustic version of the song, as well as the I Am Both tracklist and Glaspy’s upcoming North American and European tour dates.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Michigan”
02 “Reminder”
03 “That Rose”
04 “I Thought She Was A Song”
05 “Petty”
06 “Common Ground”
07 “James And Marie”
08 “Martin Luther King Jr.”
09 “Sharp Knife”
10 “Wildest Dreams”
11 “I Am Both”
TOUR DATES:
9/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
9/12 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
9/13 – Evanston, IL @ Evanston Folk Fest
9/14 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark
9/16 – Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
9/17 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
9/18 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
9/21 – Atlanta, GA @ Eddie’s Attic
9/22 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
9/24 – Iron Horse — Northampton, MA @
9/25 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
9/26 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/09 – Berlin, Germany @ Prachtwerk
10/11 – Utrecht, Netherlands @ TivoliVredenburg (Club Nine)
10/12 – Brussels, Belgium @ Witloof Bar
10/14 – Paris, France @ L’Archipel
10/16 – London, UK @ St Matthias Church
10/17 – Manchester, UK @ Halle St. Michael’s
10/18 – Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke’s
10/20 – Bristol, UK @ Lantern Hall
10/21 – Leeds, UK @ Howard Assembly Room
10/22 – Birmingham, UK @ Kitchen Garden Cafe
10/23 – St Davids, UK @ Boia Festival, Tabernacle
10/26 – Cork, Ireland @ Cyprus Avenue
10/27 – Limerick, Ireland @ Upstairs at Dolan’s
10/28 – Belfast, Ireland @ The Deer’s Head
11/04 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
11/05 – Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
11/07 – Denver, CO @ Ophelia’s
11/09 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
11/10 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Basement
11/12 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
11/13 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
11/14 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
11/16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
11/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
11/20 – Austin, TX @ The 04 Center
11/21 – Dallas, TX @ The Kessler Theater
12/11 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
12/12 – Sellersville, PA @ Sellersville Theater
I Am Both is out 8/7 on ATO. Pre-order it here.
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