Son Little Shares "Whip The Wind', New Album 'CITYFOLK' Out This Friday

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March 18, 2026
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SON LITTLE SHARES “WHIP THE WIND”,
NEW ALBUM ‘CITYFOLK’ OUT THIS FRIDAY

Photo Credit: Kendrick Brinson

“Son Little is one of the best songwriters working today. He’s honest, unique, thorough, and subtly elaborate. His voice slinks in through the spheres and suddenly he’s inside your soul, telling you the lay of the land.”
- American Songwriter

ON TOUR NOW

Ahead of this Friday’s release of his new album ‘CITYFOLK’, Son Little is sharing the album track “Whip the Wind” today. “Whip the Wind” grooves with Afro-Latin polyrhythms, its hook driven by a constant shaker and a silky synth melody that recalls early-1970s Stevie Wonder. But the song sticks to Little’s true form: despite its danceable feeling, the song is a call to recognize the human cost of power before it’s too late. Listen below.

Listen to “Whip the Wind”: https://youtu.be/T5GersqJqhY?si=vwhfctUwnOd90U7C

Although often placed in the category of “roots musician”, on ‘CITYFOLK’, Little, who NPR praised for having “impeccably crafted songs,” continues to defy genre but lets the evocation of his storytelling pierce through. “The industry likes to keep artists in little boxes, and for Black artists it has meant being defined by your proximity to ‘urban,’” Little admits. “But my music has always had had flashes of country, rock and folk, as well as hip-hop, blues and R&B. So I've always struggled as an artist who kind of, I think, lives in the spaces between genres.”

This album is also an opportunity for listeners to discover Little as more than a vocalist, but a well-rounded artist who carefully balances DIY production, songwriting and vocal arranging. Now living outside of Atlanta, Livingston attributes the development of ‘CITYFOLK’ to going even further south to record in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in January 2025. It was there that Little, whose past collaborations include The Roots and RJD2, connected with two-time Grammy-winning musician and Alabama Shakes band member Ben Tanner to flesh out sketches of songs that he’d crafted through epiphanies about his family’s roots.

In the late 1960s, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios housed unbridling protest anthems and melodious love songs that would become the classics of tomorrow. Little’s ‘CITYFOLK’ is a relic in the musical path paved for him.

“Its whole reputation and businesses are thriving because of the spirit of unity,” Little says of the small Alabama town. “I mean, it's all due to music that was created in defiance of that legacy. It's a place that I think really is a symbol of what can be accomplished when those barriers are broken down.”

Little is on tour now, performing along the West coast for the next week with a show tonight in San Francisco. An April European tour and June East coast dates will follow. All upcoming dates listed below.

TOUR DATES
March 18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
March 20 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
March 21 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
March 22 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
March 25 – 29 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival
April 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
April 9 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Annabel
April 10 – Brussels, Belgium @ Le Botanique Orangerie
April 11 – Hamburg, Germany @ Betty
April 13 – Berlin, Germany @ Frannz Club
April 14 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Cafe V lese
April 15 – Warsaw, Poland @ Jasmine
April 17 – Cologne, Germany @ Yard Club
April 19 – Brighton and Hove, UK @ DUST
April 20 – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
April 21 – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
April 22 – London, UK @ Jazz Cafe
April 23 – London, UK @ One NinetyFour
April 25 – Paris, France @ Alhambra
May 21 – Honolulu, HI @ Blue Note Hawaii
June 10 – Kansas City, MO @ Knuckleheads
June 12 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
June 13 – Spring Green, WI @ The Shitty Barn
June 14 – Chicago, IL @ Garcia’s
June 17 – Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
June 19 – Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater
June 20 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
June 23 – Washington DC @ The Atlantis
June 24 – Westport, CT @ Levitt Pavilion
June 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
June 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
June 27 – Great Barrington, MA @ The Guthrie Center
July 10 – York, PA @ Appell Center

Pre-Save ‘CITYFOLK’
1. Rabbit
2. Whip The Wind
3. Let’s Get Involved
4. It’s Your World
5. Cherry
6. Bottomless
7. Be Better
8. The Valley
9. In Orbit
10. Paper Children
11. Breathe