If I Were A Butterfly is the fourth studio album from Rayland Baxter. The album examines loss and existential ruminations on happiness and freedom and was completed in the wake of his father, the legendary Bucky Baxter’s (Bob Dylan’s longtime pedal steel player and member of Steve Earle’s Dukes) passing. His late father appears on the album along with a host of collaborators including Shakey Graves, Zac Cockrell of Alabama Shakes, members of Cage the Elephant, Stella, Rose, Morning Teleportation’s Travis Goodwin, and legendary Motown drummer Miss Bobbye Hall, among many others. If I Were A Butterfly was in large part recorded while Baxter was living alone at Thunder Sound, an abandoned rubber-band factory turned studio in Kentucky with later sessions taking place in California, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.

The Nashville eccentric and ever-evolving journeyman’s last release was Good Mmornin, a tribute to the late Mac Miller. Prior to that he released three full-length studio albums - Wide Awake, Imaginary Man, feathers & fishHooks and the EP Ashkelon. Baxter will be on tour throughout 2022 and 2023—starting with his performance at Grimey’s! You can order autographed copies of the new album here on clear colored vinyl or CD.

Due to the special nature of this release, orders are limited to ONE (1) per format, per customer / household.

Preorders for mail order haved shipped out from Grimey’s as of 11/4/2022.

All local preorders are available to pick up as of 11/4/2022.

TRACK LISTING:

IF I WERE A BUTTERFLY

1. If I Were A Butterfly

2. Billy Goat

3. Rubberband Man

4. Buckwheat

5. Tadpole

6. Dirty Knees

7. Graffiti Street

8. Violence

9. Thunder Sound

10. My Argentina