SELWYN BIRCHWOOD EXORCIST

“Rising blues star Selwyn Birchwood is the real deal. He puts his own fresh spin on the blues, taking the tradition and making it into something new.”

–GUITAR WORLD

Gifted songwriter, blistering guitarist and rugged vocalist is one of the blues’ brightest young stars, playing exhilarating, visionary new roots music.

A charismatic, relentless touring artist, Selwyn plays over 150 live performances a year at clubs, theatres and festivals in the U.S., UK, Canada, Holland, Belgium, Norway, France, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Poland, Ireland and Mexico. Tour dates will begin right after street date.

Alligator will be promoting Exorcist to over 1700 print, radio and social media contacts around the world. In the U.S., Selwyn has been featured on NPR’s World Café and XM/Sirius Satellite radio, and in Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, DownBeat, American Songwriter, Goldmine, Vintage Guitar and No Depression.

Outside the U.S., his 2021 release, Living In A Burning House, received positive reviews or features in Canada, the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand.

Exorcist will be promoted to radio for rock and blues shows worldwide, as well as internet music programmers. Living In A Burning House hit #1 on the Living Blues Radio Chart, had multiple songs reach heavy rotation on SiriusXM’s Bluesville, and crossed over to AAA and Americana stations, jam band specialty shows and tastemaker NPR Music stations.

Over 1100 worldwide radio contacts will be serviced, as well as national outlets like NPR Radio, BBC, CBC, Radio France Musique, Deutschlandfunk, NDR and MDR in Germany, ABC and Double J in Australia, RAI in Italy, RVT1 in The Netherlands and more.

Produced by Grammy winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Susan Tedeschi), Exorcist features 13 vividly detailed new Birchwood originals. It’s an intoxicating mix of deep blues, heady, psychedelic-tinged rock, booty-shaking funk and sweet Southern soul, performed with the fire-and-brimstone fervor of a revival tent preacher.

Support For Exorcist

•Advertising includes a Facebook ad campaign, plus placements in Living Blues, Blues Music Magazine, Blues Matters (UK), Blues in Britain (UK), Soul Bag (FR), Maple Blues (CA) and Bluesnews (DE), plus email blasts with Living Blues and Blues Blast Magazine.

• In-store play copies.

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 9 th , 2023

ARTIST: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD

TITLE: EXORCIST GENRE: BLUES

LABEL: ALLIGATOR RECORDS

FORMAT: CD

CATALOG NO: ALCD 5012

UPC: 0 14551-50122 0 BOX LOT: 50

FORMAT: PURPLE LP + DOWNLOAD

CATALOG NO: AL 5012

UPC: 0 14551-50121 3 BOX LOT: 40

TRACK LIST:

1. Done Cryin’ 2. FLorida Man

3. Horns Below Her Halo 4. Underdog

5. Exorcist 6. Lazarus

7. Hopeless Romantic

8. Plenty More To Be Grateful For

9. ILa-View 10. Swim At Your Own Risk

11. Call Me What You Want To*

12. My Own Worst Enemy

13. Show Tune

*Not on LP but included with download

ALLIGATOR RECORDS: P.O. BOX 60234, CHICAGO, IL 60660 (773) 973-7736 • INFO@ALLIG.COM • WWW.ALLIGATOR.COM