Fink w/ Maggie Koerner

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Buy Tickets: https://eventim.us/fink27 Fink and Maggie Koerner Live in Chattanooga | Songbirds Doors at 6:00 PM Show at 7:00 PM Standing Show with Limited Seating The City Is Coming to Erase It All is Fink’s ninth studio album, following 2024’s Beauty In Your Wake. Recorded in Zennor, Cornwall, the album was made with a strict era-specific approach. Imagining a record Michael Chapman might have made, right down to the guitar strings. Grammy-winning producer Sam Okell helped guide the process: “If it didn’t exist in 1974, you’re not allowed to use it.” But this is nowstalgia, not nostalgia. “I want something new, but with the same ethos,” singer Fin Greenall explains. There’s a parallel between the restless 18-year-olds Fink once were and the autumn-aged family men they are now. Touring remains a compulsion as much as a joy, despite having played every major European city countless times. “The need to play your new material is so overwhelming that it trumps all the comforts and trinkets.” City is a product of this hunger for discovery, and idolatry of the album as a form – like we had in 1974. City’s cover mirrors its interior, the first song is the greeting, the instrumental closer the conclusion. It’s a story. It’s a record for people who, like its creators, are curious. People who happily face a little cold for music, who light a crackling fire back home, who sit with these songs until they’re ready to chase after their own blue sky. Right after getting her bachelor’s degree in psychology, Maggie Koerner caught the attention of Brady Blade (Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews Band)who produced her debut album, Quarter Life (2011). Shortly after the release and on the advice of fellow musician David Shaw (TheRevivalists), she moved to New Orleans. Upon moving to New Orleans, it didn’t take Koerner long to write another album she would record and produce herself, Neutral Ground(2013). It was around this time that she had the opportunity to takeover as the…

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