new single and music video : October, 25, 2024!
Alabama singer-songwriter Tim Higgins releases his new single, Lost in Heaven, and accompanying music video on October 25, 2024. With his poetic, yet direct lyrical imagery, he tells the story of a traveling musician at the end of a gig moving on to the next town - his velvety, almost whispered, vocals are elevated by background vocals from Ziona Riley, Kori Hensell, and Emily Dozier-Ezell. Produced by Higgins 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 at Higgins’s home, Lost in Heaven was mastered by Adam Grover at Sterling Sound, Nashville.
The music video, shot in Higgins’s hometown of Greensboro, Alabama, and in the neighboring historic city of Selma, captures the post-show loneliness of a working artist. Directed by Reagan Wells and Seth Farmer, the song travels from the darkness of a nearly empty bar, through small town streets, and into the bright light of sunrise. The atmospheric production is coupled with a ghostly and ethereal cinematic treatment. In keeping with Higgins’s previous releases, he is giving outsiders a look into his life in the rural Deep South. At a time when working artists are struggling harder than ever, the complex emotions this song and video evoke - melancholy and doubt alongside determination and resilience - feel deeply relevant as Higgins shows the particular grit and vision of a Southern artist in a perilous time.
Twice included on Rolling Stone Country’s Best New Music list, his debut album, BLIGHT, came out in 2020, and his songs have been featured at The Bluegrass Situation, No Depression, AmercanaUK, and NPR Music. Higgins 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, called Sumac Cottage, for use as an art workshop and performance space. Higgins will perform next at the 53rd Kentuck Festival of the Arts on October 19, 2024, with fellow Alabama musicians Will Stewart playing lead guitar and Emily Dozier-Ezell singing backup vocals.