LIVE: Simon Joyner + Support: Laura Rafetseder (Wien)

Simon Joyner's latest album Coyote Butterfly was released 22 November 2024: "Coyote Butterfly was the first album of new songs in two years from singer-songwriter, Simon Joyner, following the overdose death of his son, Owen, in August of 2022. Drawing on the kaleidoscopic nature of grief, Joyner explores his loss through a series of imagined dialogues and raw confessions. The album is a tribute to Owen, but what Joyner generously delivers is an intimate glimpse at his attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible."

Simon Joyner is among America's best singer-songwriters, so says Gillian Welch, Conor Oberst, Kevin Morby, and others. "Singer-songwriter" is a frustratingly confining term; to truly understand exactly just how confining, look no further than the recorded works of Simon Joyner, an artist whose work consistently transcends the narrow parameters of genre classifications and record shop bin cards. Though his music has always honored, reckoned with—wrestled with—the tradition…