Join us on Wednesday, January 25th at 3:30 when we host Samia for a special Honey album signing! She’ll be hanging out with us and signing copies of her new album just before splitting town for her North American Honey Tour (catch her March 11th at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville—you can enter to win a pair of tickets next time you’re in the shop).
There’s a line on Honey, the second full-length from Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia, about Aspen Grove, a collection of 40,000 trees in the plains of North America, all connected by a single expansive root system. There’s no stronger metaphor for the audience the 25-year-old empathy engine has been generating since she began releasing music seven years ago. Her songs, her fans, her friends: one enormous, interconnected ecosystem.
Honey, comprised of eleven new moments of catharsis, is by and for that organism. The album was recorded at North Carolina studio Betty’s –- owned and operated by Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sandborn and Amelia Meath, frequent touring partners of Samia’s. It was produced by Caleb Wright, part of the team that helmed Samia’s breakthrough 2020 debut The Baby, and a founding member of one of Samia’s favorite bands, The Happy Children. It features some of her nearest and dearest friends: Christian Lee Hutson, Briston Maroney, Jake Luppen, Raffaella. Its songs were surreptitiously road tested for her devotees while opening for Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett, and more. The end result is what Samia calls simply “a real community record.”
We’re happy to have Samia be a part of our community and can’t wait to host an album signing with her in the record shop! All Honey preorders placed for local pickup via Grimey’s include a wristband for Samia’s signing here (where one preorder = one wristband, two preorders = two wristbands, etc.) You can also preorder the album in the record store or on our site here on limited edition blue colored vinyl LP + flexi, standard Honey colored vinyl LP, CD, or cassette.
IMPORTANT PARKING INFORMATION! Our parking lot is shared with other rad businesses and it is a finite space, so parking is limited. In addition to our lot, there is an inexpensive paid parking lot behind Elegy Coffee and Mickey's on Gallatin Road that is a short walk from the shop. Please use EXTREME CAUTION if parking on the nearby, narrow neighborhood streets. Too many cars make these roads impassable and result in angry neighbors, the police being called, and cars being towed. (This is no fun at all.) If possible, please consider carpooling, ride-sharing, walking, biking, scooting, roller skating, or taking the bus to attend Samia’s record release signing & celebration.
