Alabama’s Southern Gothic singer-songwriter Tim Higgins releases his new single, Doomed to Love Me, and accompanying music video on February 7, 2025. With his signature direct lyrical style, Tim holds a mirror up to what he sees as a growing misanthropic American society. Produced by Tim and bassist Parker McAnnally (The Prescriptions, Single Lock Records), the song also features Ben Alleman (Marc Broussard, Madi Diaz) on keys, and John Wood (Midland) on drums. Recorded in Tim’s home, Doomed to Love Me was mastered by Adam Grover at Sterling Sound, Nashville.
The music video, produced by Whisperwood and shot on damaged vintage 16mm Kodak film in Tim’s home in Greensboro, Alabama, exacerbates the song’s feeling of isolation and retreat, with the singer framed from an eerie distance through doorways and often in profile. Directed and edited by Connor Simpson, with cinematography and color by Marcus Patterson, the camera comes upon Tim in shadows or washed out by the sun, recalling episodes of when a person could have stepped in to help someone in trouble, but choosing to ignore the world around them instead. The track creeps along, slowly building, allowing the Victorian house to be a character as well, the narrator’s safe haven from the outside world. On the song and the video, Tim says, “At a time when the world needs heroes more than ever, Doomed to Love Me brings into the light the times when no hero came - and the guilt and loneliness that grows, not just on a personal level, but a greater level, as civil society breaks down, and people retreat inward.”
Twice included on Rolling Stone Country’s Best New Music list, Tim’s debut album, BLIGHT, came out in 2020, and his songs have been featured on The Bluegrass Situation, No Depression, AmercanaUK, and NPR Music. In October 2024, Tim released the single, Lost in Heaven. Tim lives in the Black Belt region of Alabama, with his partner, textile artist, Aaron Sanders Head. They recently restored an 1840s cottage ornee style house in the middle of downtown Greensboro, AL, called Sumac Cottage, for use as an art workshop and performance space.