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August 29, 2024 / VIEW
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WYATT FLORES’ LIVE AT CAIN’S BALLROOM OUT FEBRUARY 14
February 4, 2025—Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Wyatt Flores will release his first live album, Live At Cain’s Ballroom, February 14 via Island Records (pre-order/pre-save here). Recorded during Flores’ sold-out shows at Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom this past December, the album features songs from across his catalogue as well as a cover of Turnpike Troubadours’ “Ringing In The Year.”
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Of the project, Flores shares, “Live at Cain’s Ballroom is a snapshot of some of the greatest nights of my life. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed playing it.”
The record adds to a breakout year for Flores, who released his full-length debut album, Welcome to the Plains, this past fall (stream/purchase here). Produced by Beau Bedford (Orville Peck, Shane Smith & The Saints), the project details Flores’ journey as he balances the struggle of leaving his hometown of Stillwater, OK with the highs and lows of life on the road. In celebration of the new music, Flores was recently featured as part of NPR Music’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series, made his late-night television debut on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” performed on “CBS Saturday Morning” and spoke with NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
Critical acclaim for Welcome To The Plains:
“some of the most powerful music I’ve heard in a very long time.”—NPR
“Welcome to the Plains...is full of enough musical and lyrical range to be the defining album of the 23-year-old Flores’ career.”—Rolling Stone
“His latest pulses with the raw energy of a full-band sound, thrashing percussion and churning guitars”—Billboard
“Welcome to the Plains represents some of Wyatt Flores’ finest work to date”
—American Songwriter
“a vivid, emotional portrait of life”—Nashville Scene
“Welcome to the Plains is one of the most remarkable records of 2024”
—The Bluegrass Situation
“Wyatt Flores is a superstar in the making…the torchbearer for Oklahoma’s red dirt music tradition”—Whiskey Riff
“the quality of his visceral, vulnerable storytelling held aloft as the jewel in the crown of his musical promise”—Holler
“one of the most exciting breakout stars in country music today”—All Country News
“This is a confident debut album, with Flores an engaging, enthusiastic performer”
—Entertainment Focus
“With no skips on the record, he surpasses expectations and proves he can hang with some of the best names in country music”—Country Central
“there is absolutely no doubt that Flores is one of the most important and genuine artists working today”—Country Chord
Known for his electric live performances, Flores will tour through this spring with his “Welcome Back to the Plains Tour,” which includes stops at St. Petersburg’s Jannus Live, Memphis’ Graceland Soundstage, New Orleans’ The Fillmore, Charlottesville’s Ting Pavilion and St. Louis’ Ballpark Village among others. See below for complete tour itinerary.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, the Mexican-American artist has established himself as one of country music’s most vital voices with his three previous EPs, including Half Life. Receiving widespread critical attention, The New York Times praised, “Wyatt Flores…Has a Superpower: Tapping Emotions,” while NPR Music declared, “a fantastic record…he is making a big splash out there” and Holler proclaimed, “Flores at his gloriously life affirming, existential best.”
Further adding to his breakout year, Flores has been recognized as one of Rolling Stone’s 25 “Future of Music” artists, received a nomination for Emerging Act of the Year at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards, was selected as Amazon’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year, included in Spotify’s Hot Country Class of 2024 and CMT’s Listen Up class, and made his Grand Ole Opry debut. Additionally, Flores has garnered over 325 million streams to date, saw his 2022 breakout single, “Please Don’t Go,” scale the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart and had his song “Before I Do” with Jake Kohn featured on the soundtrack for the Twisters movie.
For more information, please contact Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co.,
212.741.1000.
Erika Clark at Island Records.
1. Welcome To The Plains
2. Life Lessons
3. Little Town
4. Break My Bones
5. Wildcat
6. Stillwater
7. Losing Sleep
8. I Believe In God
9. When I Die
10. Half Life
11. Orange Bottles
12. Oh Susannah
13. Ringing In The Year
14. Please Don’t Go
15. Milwaukee
16. Don’t Wanna Say Goodnight
17. Forget Your Voice
18. West of Tulsa
WYATT FLORES CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
February 28 /// Tempe, AZ /// Extra Innings Festival
March 7 /// Berlin, Germany /// C2C Festival
Berlin – Uber Eats Music Hall
March 8 /// Rotterdam, Netherlands /// C2C
Festival Rotterdam – RTM Stage
March 13 /// London, U.K. – C2C CMA Songwriters Series
March 14 /// London, U.K. /// C2C Festival – The O2
March 15 /// Belfast, U.K. /// C2C Festival – SSE Arena
March 16 /// Glasgow, U.K. /// C2C Festival – OVO Hydro
March 21-23 /// Brisbane, Australia /// CMC Rocks 2025
April 4 /// Cottonwood, AL /// Breakout at Big Creek Festival
April 5 /// Fort Lauderdale, FL /// Tortuga Music Festival
April 6 /// St. Petersburg, FL /// Jannus Live*
April 9 /// Memphis, TN /// Graceland Soundstage#
April 10 /// New Orleans, LA /// The Fillmore#
April 11 /// Gonzales, TX /// Cattle Country Fest
April 24 /// Wilkesboro, NC /// MerleFest
April 25 /// Anderson, SC /// Wendell’s†
April 26 /// Charlottesville, VA /// Ting Pavilion*
April 29 /// Huntsville, AL /// Mars Music Hall~
May 1 /// Columbia, MO /// 9th Street‡
May 2 /// Stillwater, OK /// Calf Fry Festival
May 4 /// Arlington, TX /// Lone Star Smokeout
May 30 /// St. Louis, MO /// Ballpark Village+
May 31 /// Lexington, KY /// Railbird Music Festival
June 5 /// Clinton, IA /// Tailgate N’ Tallboys Fest
July 9 /// London, Ontario /// Rock The Park
July 12 /// Cavendish, PE /// Cavendish Beach Music Festival
July 20 /// Whitefish, MT /// Under the Big Sky Festival
July 26 /// Yerington, NV /// Night in the Country Festival
August 3 /// Saint Charles, IA /// Hinterland Music Festival
August 15 /// Montreal, Quebec /// Lasso Festival 2025
*with special guest Noah Rinker
†with special guest Blake Whiten
‡with special guest Waylon Wyatt
+with special guest Kaitlin Butts
#with special guest Bayker Blankenship
~with special guest Drayton Farley
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