Solomon Hicks – How Did I Ever Get This Blue?
Solomon Hicks – How Did I Ever Get This Blue?
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Provogue Records – Mascot Label Groep
Release: 2026
Release date: January 23, 2026
New York blues hotshot Solomon Hicks has announced details of his new album How Did I Ever Get This Blue?
Hicks is a thrilling paradox, a sonic contradiction. He’s an old-soul roots scholar who salutes ancient musical forms – blues, jazz, soul, funk, gospel – but also a renegade gunslinger here to bend, stretch and scratch them for the modern world. His songs race from earworm originals, past pop covers torn up with electronica and punky riffs, to reignited blues standards that prove how potent this genre still is in the right hands.
‘How Did I Ever Get This Blue?’ was recorded in Austin, Texas, with producer Kirk Yano. Hicks assembled a crack-squad studio band that spans from US roots icons like Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble to seminal Bronx turntablist DJ Logic. Sound shocking? If Solomon Hicks came to shock us, mission accomplished. Fusing age-old human truths with street-smart modern attitude – while tearing up the rulebook of how roots music can sound – ‘How Did I Ever Get This Blue?’ is the instant-classic sequel to Harlem that will lock down devotees and rally new fans to the cause.
Website: https://www.kingsolomonhicks.com/
Tracks:
01. Further On Up The Road
02. Dimples
03. Driftin’ And Driftin’
04. All Your Love [I Miss Lovin]
05. Flyin’ High [Yesterday]
06. How Did I Ever Get This Blue
07. I’m Burnin’ Up
08. When I Was Your Man
09. Rumour Has It
10. Feels Like Rain
11. Memphis, Tennessee