Reed Turchi – World On Fire
Reed Turchi – World On Fire
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Xenon
Release: 2025
Release date: May 30, 2025
After four years of upheaval—including illness, divorce, and a cross-country move—Reed Turchi found himself right back where he started, playing the same songs he learned when he first fell in love with the North Mississippi Hill Country blues as a teenager. This time, though, something felt different
“I’ve known how to play these tunes for a long time now,” Turchi explains, “but I didn’t know how to sing them until I lived them. I had to find my voice.”
Indeed, Turchi’s captivating new album, World On Fire, is an alternatingly harrowing and hopeful journey of self-discovery, one fueled by doubt and despair, pain and healing, loss and redemption. Recorded live over two nights without any edits or overdubs, the collection is the raw and haunting testimony of a man who’s been to the brink and back, as stark and eerie as it is enthralling and hypnotic.
The songs here are all vintage blues and spiritual tunes Turchi picked up along the way on his circuitous route through the music industry—some 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 he makes each his own with striking honesty and intimacy. Turchi produced the record himself, stripping each track down to its barest essentials with only acoustic guitars, upright bass, and drums to accompany his evocative slide playing and aching vocals.
The result is a timeless recording that lands somewhere between Muddy Waters’ Folk Singer and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, a work of devastating beauty that feels at once intensely personal and profoundly relevant.
Website: https://www.reedturchi.com/
Tracks:
01. Walk With Me
02. When You’ve Got A Good Friend
03. Get Back Train
04. Lay My Burden Down
05. Don’t Leave Me Baby
06. Backdoor Man
07. 51 Highway
08. Someday Baby
09. Reprise
Line-up:
Reed Turchi – Guitar / Vocal
Eric Burns – Guitar
Seth Barden – Bass
Joseph Yount – Drums