South Carolina’s SUSTO have confirmed new April dates leading into their debut performance at this year’s Stagecoach country music festival.
The band spend the winter touring with Futurebirds and Heartless Bastards. The band’s newly released single “Cosmic Cowboy” can be listened to HERE in anticipation of their sophomore full-length album & “I’m Fine Today” set to be released in 2016.
The Charleston, S.C., country-rock band specializes in spooked, sneaky songs that often employ single-note guitar licks playing the melody.”—Nashville Scene
SUSTO Tour Dates:
April 7—Atlanta, GA—The Earl
April 8—Macon, GA— The Hummingbird Stage & Taproom
April 9—Mobile, AL— SouthSounds Music Festival
April 10—Macon, GA—Coleman Hill Park
April 15—Greenville, SC— Moe Joe Coffee & Music
April 16—Waverly, AL—Waverly Boogie
April 22—Tupelo, MS—Blue Canoe
April 21—Birmingham, AL—Saturn
April 23—Houston, TX—Rudyard’s British Pub
April 27—Phoenix, AZ—The Rebel Lounge
April 28—San Diego, CA—Soda Bar
April 29—West Hollywood, CA—The Roxy Theatre
April 30—Indio, CA—Stagecoach Festival
May 2—Flagstaff, AZ—The Orpheum Theater
May 5—Denver, CO—Larimer Lounge
May 27—Charlotte, NC—Visulite
May 28—Evans, GA—Papa Joe’s Banjo-B-Que
In 2013, singer and songwriter Justin Osborne moved to Havana, Cuba to study anthropology and found himself immersed in the music scene there, strongly influenced by local musicians who played in the Trova style and the American confessional poetry movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Returning home, in 2013, he founded the band SUSTO, drawing inspiration from his musical discoveries in Cuba along with the homegrown music scene in Charleston. Osborn named his band after a medical syndrome that’s specific to Latin American culture and roughly translates as panic attack and invited musicians including Johnny Delaware on guitar & piano, Marshall Hudson on drums, Jenna Desmond on bass and Corey Campbell on keyboard & guitar.
The band released their self-titled debut in April 2014, which The Charleston City Paper describes as “Southern Gothic country through and through…” The band immediately followed with a North American tour playing shows with Shovels and Rope and Band of Horses.
In April 2015, SUSTO released a live album featuring Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses, which was made available from the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame. SUSTO later went on to be the support act for Bridwell and Iron & Wine on their fall 2015 tour. Daytrotter, via Paste, described the live performance saying, “It’s breathtaking.”
For more information on SUSTO, visit their website at www.sustoisreal.com.
SUSTO from Zach Hellmuth Studio on Vimeo.
