Buffalo Nichols

After paying dues in innumerable bands on the local scene and realizing none of them represented what was important to him as an artist, Nichols stripped everything back to himself and his guitar, fully embraced his own conceptions, and wrestled with his place in contemporary blues – a genre which he felt was no longer telling the stories of the Black population in modern society.

Nichols’ self-titled debut was the first blues album released on the iconic Fat Possum label in nearly two decades, and its ten tracks explore themes of empathy and forgiveness, regret and loss, and the longing for home and belonging.

Fresh from recent performances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, Buffalo Nichols brings the soul of the blues and instills it with a feeling of modern relevance like no other artist working today.