Brooklyn-based artist, poet, and producer Reed Turchi announced his new album, World On Fire, along with a new single, Get Back Train. The album is set to be released on May 30th, and he will host a single-release show on Thursday, March 6th, at Club Groove in NYC.

World On Fire is a collection of vintage blues and spiritual tunes exploring his experiences with illness, divorce, and a cross-country move. His single, Get Back Train, released on February 25th, was inspired by his childhood growing up in North Carolina and falling asleep to train sounds every night. Turchi’s version of Get Back Train is an amalgamation of Mississippi Fred McDowell and Luther Dickinson, plus his own sound. The song is gentle but assertive, with the twang of the bass and distinctive hints of slide guitar carrying the melody, making you feel as if you are on a train heading towards Mississippi.

Turchi first became fascinated with the sound of the North Mississippi Hill Country blues as a teenager, and he began making regular trips to northern Mississippi to capture the last of the genre’s originators while developing his own style of slide guitar in the process. After graduating from UNC, Turchi launched a label to release albums he’d recorded by the likes of Kenny Brown and Joe Ayers. The buzz soon led him to an A&R/production gig at Ardent label and studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

While Turchi was building his career as an artist, he was halted by a mysterious medical condition. For two years, doctors remained perplexed by Turchi’s worsening symptoms, unable to pinpoint a source for the increasingly debilitating pain and internal bleeding that made even simple acts like eating and drinking impossible, until doctors finally diagnosed Turchi with a rare form of Crohn’s Disease

“When you lie awake from pain that many nights in a row, you start to ask yourself what really matters, you start to get down to the core of the human experience and what it is you want to communicate.”
Reed Turchi

After withstanding illness, divorce, and a cross-country move, Reed Turchi found himself right back where he started, playing the same songs he learned when he first fell in love with the North Mississippi Hill Country blues as a teenager.