Oscar Lindsey - Sunshine Tour w/ James Eichman

6PM DOORS | 7PM SHOWTIME

18+

Limited Seating, First Come First Served.

$18 Adv (+taxes/fees)

$23 Doors (+taxes/fees)

You’re my fire / You’re my muse, opens the title track of Oscar Lindsey’s new album,

his voice bare, vulnerable and wistful. You’re everything. The harmonica whines. Stakes

are set. All that I could lose.

Lindsey sees the songs on ‘Sunshine’ as a seminal push into adulthood, describing the

collection as "every phase of an early-twenty-something’s fucked-up love story.” Those

opening lines relay a lesson hard-learned. To love something so wholly that you fear its

end—it’s an internal war we all wage at some point. And Lindsey is no stranger to

battling his own brain, “especially when it comes to making decisions,” he says. “I have

a me who's looking out for me, and another me who’s sabotaging my life.”

I could tell by the look in her eye, he sings over the soft and steadily plucked

progression of “Flip A Coin.” She’s gonna fall down to her knees and cry / When I tell

her I’m too scared to love. That unguarded admission, nudged out with a tender, Elliott

Smith-like melodicism, clarifies Lindsey’s precocious command of songcraft. He

encapsulates an almost whimsical submission to the difficulty of being a person. I could

flip a coin and choose / What is it normal people do?

‘Sunshine’ is less an embodiment of its namesake than a plea for light. Lindsey wrote

much of it during Nashville’s historic 2026 ice storm, which exploded transformers

across the city, wreaked havoc across the landscape, and left residents in the frigid dark

for nearly two weeks. Lead single “Metal Through Her Lips”—a standout track hailed

by Ones To Watch as “a complex and entirely captivating work of art” which rapidly

racked up more than a million streams—emerged from that odd and trying moment of

mandatory hibernation. “I wrote the song in a hotel lobby,” shares Lindsey. “So I had to

sing really quietly.” He was going through a breakup, a swirl of interpersonal volatility

underscored by natural disaster. He penned his struggles into vivid poetry—She puts

ink on her skin, blowin’ sugar in the wind, tastes like cinnamon / She invests her time

like a bank credit line that pays her dividends—and enlisted local friends to record

upright bass, harmonium, and trumpets. The result is a vibrantly spirited song, spun

from a moment that otherwise seemed rather dead.

Lindsey descends from a long line of formidable songwriters. His grandfather’s name is

listed in the discographies of Pirates of the Mississippi and The Byrds, while stars like

Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift count Lindsey’s parents as collaborators. “I never

felt like I had a different childhood,” he says, considering the hitmaking backdrop of his

home life. “I was exposed to a lot of music, but it just felt normal to me. I think when

you're young, you look at what your parents do and you're like, oh, that's so lame, just

because they’re your parents.” Though he’s grateful for their influence in retrospect,

Lindsey looked outside his parents’ catalog for inspiration in those formative years.

“Around age fourteen, I was completely obsessed with Bo Burnham. I learned all his

songs on piano—that was how I started to play.”

James Eichman Bio:

Nashville-based artist and multi-instrumentalist, James Eichman, has a diverse musical background from performing with other musicians such as Annie DiRusso, Emma Ogier, and Hannah Cole, all of whom have inspired and propelled him towards writing and performing his own music. After a string of singles and EPs released over the last two years, Eichman is gearing up to unveil his debut album, St. Catherine Street, at the end of the summer.

The album’s first single, “4am,” serves as an introduction to the forthcoming project, drawing listeners in with simple acoustic strumming, steady drums, and captivating vocals that carry from the opening to the closing lines. Following in the same vein, “Paper Plate” arrived as the next single.

St. Catherine Street is full of introspective, inquisitive lyrics and soft, melodic instrumentation. Eichman follows a highly individualized lyrical process, with each song driven by a commitment to the craft of narrative storytelling. His music explores fictitious tales supported by masterful acoustic guitar melodies. But at the heart of every song, it’s James. -Emma Hug Rosenstein, Off The Record Press