Grammy and Academy Award winner Jon Batiste has introduced his ninth studio album, Large Cash, out August twenty second. Alongside the information, Batiste has launched the album’s title observe and official music video—obtainable now. The file, launched by means of Verve/Interscope, will likely be obtainable in various codecs, together with unique signed CDs and signed scorching pink vinyl.
Large Cash is Batiste’s imaginative and prescient of New Americana. A press launch shares that “beneath the rhythm, [Big Money is] a layered meditation on capitalism, survival, and what we choose to value.” As he informed Rolling Stone, “I’m just now making an explicit Americana blues statement, but for me, it’s at the beginning. It’s always the undercurrent. I think about everything that I have done, and it all is in some way a form of homage to the blues.”
Batiste co-produced the album with longtime artistic confidant Dion “No ID” Wilson. Different collaborators embody Andra Day, Randy Newman, and a tight-knit group of musicians, songwriters, and engineers.
He wrote the title observe on guitar after a spark of inspiration following his 2024 efficiency at The Ryman Auditorium. On the file, it options vocals from The Womack Sisters—a rising trio and granddaughters of soul legend Sam Cooke—who echo the chorus: “Might as well live for something you can feel… something that’s real.”
That lyric speaks, amongst different issues, to the rise of A.I. music. Batiste informed Rolling Stone: ”I take into consideration this album being a direct assertion of the significance of individuals protecting these traditions alive. AI isn’t going to ever exchange this form of observe. However I do worry that within the brief time period we’ll overlook what this implies, and why it’s necessary, except artists make statements which might be definitively of the essence of communal expression within the traditions of our music.”
Batiste will help the album with a nationwide headlining run, The BIG MONEY Tour: Jon Batiste Performs America, kicking off August 27 in Kansas Metropolis, MO. The tour will cease at greater than 30 venues throughout the nation, together with Purple Rocks Amphitheatre, the Grand Ole Opry, and a co-headline date with Diana Ross at The Muny in St. Louis, MO. Full tour dates and ticket info can be found on Batiste’s web site.
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