Rolling Stone Talks To Fruit Bats About Baby Man

Rolling Stone has a feature on Eric D. Johnson and his new album under the Fruit Bats moniker, Baby Man, which the venerable magazine calls “devastatingly minimal… with Baby Man, he’s further celebrating the simple beauty of folk. The album is a stripped-down 10-song effort that was knocked out over a week in February. Unlike full-band Fruit Bats albums, Johnson leaned hard into sparseness, particularly on the piano-driven title track.” Read more about the LP, which RS notes is a departure lyrically as well as musically for Johnson, here. It’s out now via Merge and going for NACC debuts this week.

See Fruit Bats:

10/16 – Ojai, CA – Ojai Valley Woman’s Club
10/17 – Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union Project
10/18 – San Francisco, CA  –The Chapel (Two Shows)
10/20 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
10/22 – Stoughton, WI – Stoughton Opera House
10/23 – Minneapolis, MN – Icehouse
10/24 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
10/25 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
10/27 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
10/29 – Toronto, ON – Longboat Hall
10/30 – Buffalo, NY – The Ninth Ward
10/31 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios
11/1 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/2 – Cambridge, MA – Sinclair