{"id":1124,"date":"2021-09-30T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/09\/30\/parker-millsap-bowery-lark-hall\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:29:00","slug":"parker-millsap-bowery-lark-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/09\/30\/parker-millsap-bowery-lark-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker Millsap will ‘Be Here Instead’ at Bowery Ballroom and Lark Hall this October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Parker Millsap has started a new tour in support of his latest critically acclaimed album, Be Here Instead<\/em>. Millsap will arrive in New York for a show at Bowery Ballroom on Saturday, October 9, and Lark Hall<\/a> in Albany on Sunday, October 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millsap\u2019s fifth studio LP and first new album in close to three years, Be Here Instead<\/em> marks a stylistic shift from the gritty and high-energy folk of the Oklahoma-bred, Nashville-based artist\u2019s previous output. Mainly recorded live with Millsap\u2019s full band, the album sees a departure from the guitar-and-notebook-based approach to songwriting that shaped his earlier work. Instead, Parker Millsap has followed his curiosity to countless other modes of expression, experimenting with everything from piano to effects pedals to old school drum machines (a fascination partly inspired by the early-\u201970s innovations of Sly Stone and J.J. Cale).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Be Here Instead<\/em> <\/em>was produced by the legendary John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Waxahatchee), and was heralded in January with the luminous \u201cThe Real Thing.” The song \u2013 which features guest vocals from Nashville singer Erin Rae \u2013 was also joined by a video, streaming now at YouTube. “The Real Thing” was met with a lot of excitement at radio, peaking at #1 on the Americana chart and sitting in the top 5 for 13 weeks, and making NPR’s Heavy Rotation<\/a> list twice. In February, Millsap returned with the song “Vulnerable,” a lushly textured piece of psychedelic soul threaded with elegantly simple wisdom that Rolling Stone<\/em> called “a shimmering dreamlike production that plays like an underwater orchestra.” The song was joined by a companion video directed by Casey Pierce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then released \u201cDammit,\u201d one of the album\u2019s most majestic moments as it unfolds as an unlikely epic that perfectly captures the nuances of existential frustration while working up a furious momentum that\u2019s nothing less than exhilarating. It was also joined by an official music video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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