Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Following an impressive run of albums in the 2010s that earned him a devoted fanbase, accolades from outlets like The New York Times, Fresh Air, and Pitchfork, and a place in the upper echelon of modern Americana singer-songwriters, John Moreland recently took an entire year off from playing shows and didn’t use a smartphone for six months. After nearly a decade in the limelight, constantly jostled by the expectations of his audience, the music industry, and anonymous strangers online, he carved out some time to rest, heal and reflect. The result of that unplugged year at home is the 2024 release Visitor, a folk-rock record that is intimate, immediate, deeply thoughtful and extremely catchy. Moreland recorded the album at his home in Bixby, Oklahoma, in only ten days, playing nearly every instrument himself as well as engineering and mixing the album. It is a return to the approach Moreland took on his breakthrough albums, 2013’s In The Throes and 2015’s High On Tulsa Heat. On a musical level, the result is a raw, straightforward sound for which he has become known.
