Seth Walker, American blues guitarist and singer/songwriter, will perform songs from his latest album “Are You Open?” during a special one-night-only performance at the Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Friday, March 1.
Tickets ($15 for reserved seats) for this 21-and-older show are on sale now at www.treehousebainbridge.com.
“Are You Open?” follows 2016’s critically acclaimed “Gotta Get Back,” a collection that found Walker excavating the roots of his love affair with music by reuniting the family that first sparked his fire as a child. That album traced its origins back to Walker’s native North Carolina, where he grew up on a multi-family commune and studied classical violin and cello before ultimately discovering his passion for soul, jazz, blues and folk.
He’d go on to deftly mix all those genres and more in his work as a solo artist, organically building up a celebrated two-decade career that’s earned him praise everywhere from The Washington Post to NPR, who hailed his “hard-driving” songs and “sweet tenor,” in addition to landing him dates with The Mavericks, The Wood Brothers, Raul Malo, Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster, among others.
Produced by The Wood Brothers’ Jano Rix, “Are You Open?” marks Walker’s 10th studio recording, and the music is reportedly his most inventive, exploring new sounds and textures as he examines what it means to truly be open, both as an artist and more broadly as a human in today’s increasingly more complicated world.