Kevin Morby Announces New Album & World Tour 

Kevin Morby has announced details for a new LP he’s described as the most personal and vulnerable album he’s ever made. The indie rock singer/songwriter also shared the album’s lead single, “Javelin,” and unveiled the routing for a 2026 world tour. 

Marking his eighth studio album, Little Wide Open is due out May 15th via Dead Oceans. The project was produced by Aaron Dessner. 

Today’s announcement points out that Little Wide Open has been described by Morby as the third in an unintentional trilogy of releases, following 2020’s Sundowner and 2022’s This Is a Photograph.

“Little Wide Open is set to a backdrop of tangled highways, towns with populations less than 100,000, roadside crosses, a rock and roll romance, coupling butterflies, being an American entertainer, Econoline vans and more,” Morby said in a statement. “This is, without a doubt, the most personal and vulnerable album I’ve ever made. Aaron did a heroic job of holding me back from throwing too many tricks at the songs, and letting my stories stand a bit naked. Despite its title this album is in fact, very wide open.”

Reflecting on the lead single, Morby says: “This is a song I wrote about being in love with someone you keep circling around the globe, relentlessly traveling through the air and down highways, and then returning home alone to middle America. Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso) shines here, with her incredible vocals. I had invited her into the studio and asked that she create a backing choir out of just her voice – but her presence is so special that her ‘backing vocals’ can’t help but take the lead.”

Also out today is an accompanying video for “Javelin” starring Morby and his friend Caleb Hearon on an ATV driving around the fields and backroads of Missouri, with cameos from Katie Crutchfield and Tara Raghuveer. 

Little Wide Open includes a number of contributors including Dessner, Meath, Justin Vernon, Katie Gavin, Lucinda Williams, Mat Davidson, Meg Duffy, Oliver Hill, Rachel Baiman, Stuart Bogie, Tim Carr, Andrew Barr, Benjamin Lanz, Colin Croom and Tom Moth, and mixed by Bella Blasko & Jonathan Low, 

The singer/songwriter’s upcoming tour plans start with a March 14 show at Austin, Texas’ The Long Time. He then returns to the road in May with a May 8 performance at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York. Stops include Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, New Orleans, Boston, Brooklyn, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Vienna, Munich and more. He will be joined on tour by Liam Kazar as support.

Morby announced the tour on his Instagram with a post declaring: “NORTH AMERICA! EUROPE! UK! I am so so so thrilled to announce my first full, continent spanning, tours since 2023. Little Wide Open is an album I began writing in the back of my tour bus in 2021 and the road continued to be a huge inspiration. All that to say – it feels very full circle to announce these tours where I will bring this new album, backed by the most amazing band, to you all. It will be fun and fast and loud and quiet and the songs will be happy and sad and about being alive and being dead and OMG that City Music! I thought I saw a Still Life Photograph of a Singing Saw along the Harlem River out in the Little Wide Open SPEAKING OF WHICH; our set list potential has gotten quite long, and we have our main stays, but I am wondering – what do YOU all wanna hear? Maybe it’s time we reach into the paper bag of my previous albums and pull out some songs we don’t usually play. That sounds fun. 🌻”

A ticket presale starts Thursday at 10 a.m. local time with the password JAVELIN, with the general onsale following on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Morby is partnering with PLUS1 to donate a dollar of every ticket purchased to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

@liamkazar gonna heat up the stage each night as support 🤠

 

Check out the routing below. 

Kevin Morby Tour Dates

Sat. March 14 – Austin, TX @ The Long Time

Fri. May 8 – Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios *

Wed. May 13 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Aspen *

Thu. May 14 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre *

Fri. May 15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party

Sun. May 17 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom *

Mon. May 18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre *

Tue. May 19 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *

Thu. May 21 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore *

Fri. May 22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern *

Sat. May 23 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s *

Sun. May 24 – San Diego, CA @ Music Box *

Tue. May 26 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *

Wed. May 27 – Santa Fe, NM @ The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing *

Fri. May 29 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater *

Sat. May 30 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall *

Tue. June 2 – Chicago, IL @ Metro *

Thu. June 4 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall *

Fri. June 5 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY *

Sat. June 6 – Montréal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield *

Sun. June 7 – Boston, MA @ Royale *

Tue. June 9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *

Wed. June 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *

Fri. June 12 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre *

Sat. June 13 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground *

Sun. June 14 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *

Tue. June 16 – New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s

Thu. June 18 – Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater

Fri. June 19 – Fort Worth, TX @ Tannahill’s Tavern and Music Hall

Sat. June 20 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater

Thu. July 2 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso *

Fri. July 3 – Beuningen, NL @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Sat. July 4 – Lille, FR @ L’Aéronef *

Sun. July 5 – Hérouville-Saint-Clair, FR @ Festival Beauregard

Mon. July 6 – Paris, FR @ Salle Pleyel *

Wed. July 8 – London, UK @ Troxy *

Thu. July 9 – Manchester, UK @ The Ritz *

Fri. July 10 – Brighton, UK @ CHALK *

Sat. July 11 – Brugge, BE @ Cactusfestival

Sun. July 12 – Köln, DE @ Even Flow Festival

Tue. July 14 – Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik *

Wed. July 15 – Galzignano Terme, IT @ Anfiteatro del Venda *

Thu. July 16 – Feldkirch, AU @ Poolbar Festival *

Fri. July 17 – Vienna, AU @ Simm City *

Sat. July 18 – Munich, DE @ Technikum *

* = support from Liam Kazar