The new album is due this fall
Brian Setzer hits hard with his new single, the red-hot “The Devil Always Collects.” Written by Setzer and frequent collaborator Mike Himelstein, it marks the title track of his new album of the same name out September 15th on Surfdog Records digitally, on CD, and vinyl. The iconic guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, and three-time Grammy Award-winner burns up the frets of his instrument over an insistent, galloping rhythm and digs into his vocals with urgency and frankness while singing the lines: “You bargained for pleasure/Fame, fortune, and sex/Pay back! Knock, knock, knock/The devil always collects.”
“The Devil Always Collects” (“ain’t that the truth,” says Setzer) comes on the heels of “Black Leather Jacket” and the album’s first single/video “Girl On The Billboard.”
Setzer’s guitar work is virtuosic on the new album’s 11 tracks, and his vocals deliver the clever storylines of catchy songs like “The Devil Always Collects,” “Girl On The Billboard,” and “Rock Boys Rock.” Add in non-stop freight train rhythms, and you have an album—produced by Setzer and Julian Raymond and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge—that stands with Setzer’s best. It’s always been his special talent to inject the roots of rock with a contemporary freshness that unites fans of rock, Americana, rockabilly, and punk.
Setzer will support the album, his first since 2021’s Gotta Have The Rumble, this fall on his US Rockabilly Riot Tour. Marking his first live shows in over four years, the trek will kick off September 27th at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ and includes stops in Nashville, TN at the historic Ryman Auditorium, Foxwoods Casino, Cincinnati, Chicago (Waukegan) and others before wrapping in Minneapolis (his adopted hometown). Setzer has a 40-year career as a solo artist, leader of The Brian Setzer Orchestra and as a Stray Cat, he continues to play with a jaw-dropping level of vigor.
