Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open Tour

Kevin Morby announces new Australian tour dates following the release of his eighth studio album, Little Wide Open, out now via Dead Oceans. The tour will see him play full band shows at Forum Melbourne, Metro Theatre Sydney, Hotel Brunswick, Old Museum Brisbane and Town Folk Festival, presented by Handsome Tours, as well as solo dates in NSW and QLD presented by Jet Black Cat.Featuring singles ‘Javelin’, which was recently performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, ‘Die Young’ ‘Bandlands’, and the final single, ‘100,000’, Little Wide Open is Kevin's most personal and vulnerable album to date. “Despite its title, this album is, in fact, very wide open,” Kevin shares.“Little Wide Open is set to a backdrop of tangled highways, towns with populations less than 100,000, roadside crosses, a rock and roll romance, coupling butterflies, being an American entertainer, Econoline vans and more,” As Pitchfork encapsulates, the album is a window into the Midwest, "the rolling plains, the tornado sirens, the Biblically big sky.As award-winning novelist Rachel Kushner writes in her essay about Little Wide Open entitled “Field Guide to the North American Troubadour,” “for him, the LWO is the big sky, the small lives—it’s his origins in the Midwest and every duty and modesty and familiarity and isolation: the land, the people, and the parts of that inside him.”In the summer of 2024, Aaron Dessner had asked Morby to support The National at their London show in Crystal Palace Park. Shortly after, Dessner—who was on a hot streak, having produced albums for Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and Gracie Abrams—reached out to Morby to say he’d love to produce his next album. They began recording at Aaron’s Long Pond Studio in Stuyvesant, NY, early in 2025 and finished in September of that year. As Morby explains, “Aaron did a heroic job of holding me back from throwing too many tricks at the songs and letting my stories stand a bit naked.” The album, which includes a host of contributors such as Dessner—who plays multiple instruments across it - Amelia Meath, Justin Vernon, Katie Gavin, Lucinda Williams, Davidson, Meg Duffy, Oliver Hill, Rachel Baiman, Stuart Bogie, Tim Carr, Andrew Barr, Benjamin Lanz, Colin Croom and Tom Moth, has been described by Morby as the third in an unintentional trilogy of releases, following 2020’s Sundowner and 2022’s This Is a Photograph, which catalogued his time in middle America after moving back to Kansas City. This time out, Dessner’s production elevates Morby’s recordings while never losing focus of the songs themselves. There’s a newfound confidence and clarity in both Morby’s writing and Dessner’s production that recalls Tom Petty’s 1994 classic Wildflowers. Now primarily living in LA, the atmosphere that runs through Little Wide Open has changed somewhat from its predecessors. The feeling of restlessly hurtling towards something new. A future unseen and untested, but inevitable.Morby has a devoted fan base in Australia, having toured multiple times, with the last being in 2023. He has appeared at festivals including Brunswick Music Festival, Panama, Nine Live and Wanderer Festival, alongside sold-out headline shows across capital cities. His work has received consistent airplay on Double J and national community radio in Australia, as well as praise from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The Fader, Vulture, The New York Times, The Guardian, and more