Nashville-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Devon Gilfillian announces his schedule for the upcoming SXSW Festival in Austin, TX, March 13-18, ahead of a special album release show headlining Mercury Lounge in NYC on April 17, and a performance at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville as support for Emily King on May 26. Gilfillian’s new full-length studio album, Love You Anyway, will be released on April 7, 2023, via Fantasy Records.
Devon’s SXSW schedule will feature a performance for Willie Nelson’s famed Luck Reunion event on March 16, and includes showcases with Waterloo Records, PASTE, All Together Now, ACL Radio, Tito’s, Relix, Sun Radio, Jam in the Van and an official SXSW showcase with A2IM. See the full SXSW schedule and current tour dates below.
Gilfillian’s Love You Anyway is an intoxicating, genre-crossing album, spanning soul, hip-hop, R&B, and rock, all under the banner of Black joy. Love You Anyway features his latest single “All I Really Wanna Do,” an alluring Temps-infused tune that The Philadelphia Inquirer called “an irresistible slinky and soulful, candy-colored invitation.” The track recently made its radio debut on the Top 25 Billboard Adult Alternative and Top 10 on the Americana Singles chart.
Produced by Jeremy Lutito (Joy Oladokun, NEEDTOBREATHE), Love You Anyway, confronts as well as comforts. Chronicling Gilfillian’s journey as a Black artist living in 21st century America, the album’s 10 original tracks, (all co-written by Gilfillian) are as much about fighting for what you believe in: equity and representation, as it is about love, finding it, making it, and channeling it into every facet of our lives.
Growing up in Philadelphia, Gilfillian discovered that the towering icons of his musician father’s era—Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, The Temptations—were just as formative and exciting as discovering the new sounds of his own generation: Wu-Tang Clan, Notorious B.I.G., and Jay-Z, who all inspired him in different ways. Bursting on the scene in 2020 with his highly regarded debut album Black Hole Rainbow, he received glowing acclaim from NPR, the New York Times, PASTE and The Tennessean, among many others. Then later that year, Gilfillian re-recorded and released Marvin Gaye’s iconic album, What’s Going On, which raised funds for low-income communities of color, and provided resources and education around the democratic process.
Now, with Love You Anyway, Devon Gilfillian pays it forward. Conjuring the raw, sexy emotions of his predecessors and the next-level production grooves of his R&B and hip-hop contemporaries, Gilfillian is taking soul music into an exciting and restorative new future.
Devon Gilfillian - Love You Anyway TRACK LIST:
1. All I Really Wanna Do
2. The Recipe
3. Brown Sugar Queen (feat. Janice)
4. Right Kind Of Crazy
5. Let The Water Flow
6. Imma Let My Body Move
7. Better Broken
8. Follow The Leader
9. Righteous (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff)
10. Piano (Interlude)
11. Love You Anyway
Devon Gilfillian On Tour:
FEB 10 -17 - Miami, FL - Cayamo Cruise
MAR 13 -19 - Austin, TX - SXSW
APR 17 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge (album release show)
APR 22 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
APR 23 - Charlotte, NC - Tuck Fest
MAY 26 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium *Supporting Emily King
JUN 9 - Selbyville, DE - Freeman Arts Pavillion
JUN 10 - Boston, MA - Leader Bank Pavilion
JUN 11 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
JUN 17 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
SXSW Schedule
MAR 14 - Waterloo Records - Waterloo Records (Austin, TX)
MAR 15 - Paste - High Noon
MAR 15 - A2IM - Seven Grand
MAR 16 - Luck Reunion
MAR 17 - KGSR ACL Radio - Hotel Van Zandt
MAR 17 - Relix x Brooklyn Bowl - Empire Control Room & Garage
MAR 17 - Imoegen x Willie - South Congress Ave
MAR 18 - Tito’s - Venue TBA
MAR 18 - Jam in the Van - The Armadillo Den
Devon’s SXSW schedule will feature a performance for Willie Nelson’s famed Luck Reunion event on March 16, and includes showcases with Waterloo Records, PASTE, All Together Now, ACL Radio, Tito’s, Relix, Sun Radio, Jam in the Van and an official SXSW showcase with A2IM. See the full SXSW schedule and current tour dates below.
Gilfillian’s Love You Anyway is an intoxicating, genre-crossing album, spanning soul, hip-hop, R&B, and rock, all under the banner of Black joy. Love You Anyway features his latest single “All I Really Wanna Do,” an alluring Temps-infused tune that The Philadelphia Inquirer called “an irresistible slinky and soulful, candy-colored invitation.” The track recently made its radio debut on the Top 25 Billboard Adult Alternative and Top 10 on the Americana Singles chart.
Produced by Jeremy Lutito (Joy Oladokun, NEEDTOBREATHE), Love You Anyway, confronts as well as comforts. Chronicling Gilfillian’s journey as a Black artist living in 21st century America, the album’s 10 original tracks, (all co-written by Gilfillian) are as much about fighting for what you believe in: equity and representation, as it is about love, finding it, making it, and channeling it into every facet of our lives.
Growing up in Philadelphia, Gilfillian discovered that the towering icons of his musician father’s era—Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, The Temptations—were just as formative and exciting as discovering the new sounds of his own generation: Wu-Tang Clan, Notorious B.I.G., and Jay-Z, who all inspired him in different ways. Bursting on the scene in 2020 with his highly regarded debut album Black Hole Rainbow, he received glowing acclaim from NPR, the New York Times, PASTE and The Tennessean, among many others. Then later that year, Gilfillian re-recorded and released Marvin Gaye’s iconic album, What’s Going On, which raised funds for low-income communities of color, and provided resources and education around the democratic process.
Now, with Love You Anyway, Devon Gilfillian pays it forward. Conjuring the raw, sexy emotions of his predecessors and the next-level production grooves of his R&B and hip-hop contemporaries, Gilfillian is taking soul music into an exciting and restorative new future.
Devon Gilfillian - Love You Anyway TRACK LIST:
1. All I Really Wanna Do
2. The Recipe
3. Brown Sugar Queen (feat. Janice)
4. Right Kind Of Crazy
5. Let The Water Flow
6. Imma Let My Body Move
7. Better Broken
8. Follow The Leader
9. Righteous (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff)
10. Piano (Interlude)
11. Love You Anyway
Devon Gilfillian On Tour:
FEB 10 -17 - Miami, FL - Cayamo Cruise
MAR 13 -19 - Austin, TX - SXSW
APR 17 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge (album release show)
APR 22 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
APR 23 - Charlotte, NC - Tuck Fest
MAY 26 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium *Supporting Emily King
JUN 9 - Selbyville, DE - Freeman Arts Pavillion
JUN 10 - Boston, MA - Leader Bank Pavilion
JUN 11 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
JUN 17 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
SXSW Schedule
MAR 14 - Waterloo Records - Waterloo Records (Austin, TX)
MAR 15 - Paste - High Noon
MAR 15 - A2IM - Seven Grand
MAR 16 - Luck Reunion
MAR 17 - KGSR ACL Radio - Hotel Van Zandt
MAR 17 - Relix x Brooklyn Bowl - Empire Control Room & Garage
MAR 17 - Imoegen x Willie - South Congress Ave
MAR 18 - Tito’s - Venue TBA
MAR 18 - Jam in the Van - The Armadillo Den
