Check out modern day bluesman Reed Turchi's new music video for his bewitching blues track "Walk With Me." The acclaimed artist is set to perform several dates in Prescott, AZ this weekend including at the Raven Cafe from 7-10 p.m. tonight...Robert Kinsler
Reed Turchi Releases New Single “Walk With Me”
From Forthcoming Album World On Fire out on May 30
West Coast Tour Dates This Spring in Prescott, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Bay Area
Album Release Show at Barbes in Brooklyn, NY on May 30
Photo credit: Jacob Blickenstaff
April 25, 2025: Today, Reed Turchi, the Brooklyn-based musician, producer, and poet shared a new single “Walk With Me,” the latest track to be released from his forthcoming album World On Fire, out on May 30. He’s also shared a live video of him and his band performing the new track recorded at Wild Coyote Recordings in Guttenberg, NJ. American Blues Scene featured the track saying, “Built around a lulling rhythm and a gently hypnotic pulse, ‘Walk With Me’ carries an air of vulnerability and invitation—a plea for companionship… The song’s layered structure offers a sense of time passing, of moments unspooling. It’s a prayer, a lullaby that asks the listener to ‘walk with’ the artist through the shared human experience.”
Turchi has a number of tour dates in support of the album, including a hometown album release show at Barbes in Brooklyn, NY on May 30. Find a full list of tour dates below or visit his website. Preorder World On Fire via Bandcamp.
“Art, for me, is always about communication,” explains Turchi. “So much of life is loneliness, and so to create is to reach out, to try and touch. Maybe it’s an etching on a cave wall, maybe it’s a symphonic score crescendoing emotion. ‘Walk With Me,’ as a song, is based in exactly that — a call for companionship. It starts with a rhythm, built on a circling of snare-brush, upright-bass riff, and acoustic-guitar melody that spins itself in a meditative spiral as the melody-line of slide guitar and voice can float over.”
“This song, more than any other, defines World On Fire as an album. It establishes the mood, the place, the meaning. It announces its intentions. Here we are, in the darkness, with our simple song. Where are you, and will you walk with me to light the way?”
“Walk With Me” follows previous singles “Get Back Train” and “Lay My Burden Down.” Glide Magazine lauded “Get Back Train” saying, “Backing him is a tight band that infuses the song with a healthy amount of folk, bluegrass, and blues to give it a smooth Americana sound,” while “Lay My Burden Down” earned praise from Magnet Magazine, NYS Music, and The Alternate Root, who named it one of their Weekly Top Ten.
Hailed by the likes of Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, and Oxford American who called Turchi an artist “beyond genre constraints,” Turchi has built his solo career with a series of critically acclaimed albums and relentless touring around the US and Europe. After the pandemic ground things to a halt in 2020, Turchi returned to the road in the fall of 2021, only to be derailed again, this time by a mysterious medical condition. It took over 2 years before doctors finally diagnosed Turchi with a rare form of Crohn’s Disease, they prescribed a mind-bending steroid regimen to help heal the open wounds and ulcers that had wrought havoc on his intestines. “When you lie awake from pain that many nights in a row, you start to ask yourself what really matters,” he reflects. “You start to get down to the core of the human experience and what it is you want to communicate.”
That sense of clarity is striking on World On Fire, a collection of vintage blues and spiritual tunes Turchi picked up along the way on his circuitous route through the music industry. Some of the songs are traditional with no documented authors, others performed by so many artists with so many variations over the years that it’s impossible to pin down any definitive version, but Turchi makes each his own with striking honesty and intimacy. It’s a direct, plainspoken reflection on loneliness and isolation, on the search for comfort and connection in a world that feels colder and more uncaring by the day.
“In a lot of ways, this record feels like the culmination of everything I’ve done so far,” Turchi reflects, “but it also feels like a new beginning. I can hear myself turning a corner and, for the first time, knowing who I am and where I’m headed.”
Reed Turchi is also an accomplished poet and graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He's had work published in The American Poetry Review, Story South, and Narrative Magazine among others, and he’s recently had three poems accepted by Poetry Magazine that will run in a forthcoming issue. His many projects include House of Unending, a collaborative album with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, and the trio album Southallstars.
World On Fire Tracklist:
1. Walk With Me
2. When You’ve Got A Good Friend
3. Get Back Train
4. Lay My Burden Down
5. Don’t Leave Me Baby
6. Backdoor Man
7. 51 Highway
8. Someday Baby
9. Reprise
Tour Dates:
April 25 – Prescott, AZ – Raven Cafe
April 26 – Prescott, AZ – The Fairweather Social Club
April 27 – Prescott, AZ – The Fairweather Social Club
April 30 – Hollywood, CA – The Hotel Cafe
May 1 – Rio Nido, CA – Rio Nido Roadhouse
May 2 – Bolinas, CA – Smiley's Saloon
May 3 – Petaluma, CA – Ernie's Tin Bar
May 30 – Brooklyn, NY – Barbes
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