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Today, The Cactus Blossoms - Minneapolis-based brother duo Jack Torrey and Page Burkum - have shared their new album Every Time I Think About You via their own Walkie Talkie Records. Across the collection, the brothers evoke “pure Americana dream pop” (No Depression) and “a sound that’s like rain in the desert” (Bluegrass Situation) as they defy easy categorization - jumping from freewheeling rockers to gentle pop ballads. Throughout the ten-song collection, they “ensure a tasteful mix of savory with their familiar sweetness” - as the Associated Press put it in a rave review - marking “the duo’s best record yet.” 

Every Time I Think About You finds The Cactus Blossoms traversing themes that accompany moving on - from loss, the past, and the weight of expectation. This includes their chooglin’ heartbreak anthem “There She Goes” (which premiered on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country and was named one of Rolling Stone's ‘Songs You Need To Know’), the album’s gently devastating title track “Every Time I Think About You” and “Something's Got A Hold On Me,” a slice of pure Saturday night two-steppin’ joy inspired by Jimmie Rodgers. Most recently, The Cactus Blossoms shared “Statues” from the new album - alongside a stunning visual captured at a “strangely moving Americana paradise” (Atlas Obscura) in rural Wisconsin, Fred Smith’s Concrete Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDE2vIepIN0 

"One day, just a few weeks before the recording session for our latest album, the word 'Statues' just popped into my head along with a simple melody," says The Cactus Blossoms' Page Burkum.  "I was immediately hypnotized and kept singing it over and over. After recording, I remembered a roadside attraction I had heard of years ago called Fred Smith's Concrete Park. I almost forgot about the Concrete Park but the song jogged my memory so I looked it up, and sure enough it was just as incredible and wonderful and mysterious as I had remembered.  Who knows why Fred Smith made this park, or for that matter, why this song was written. I guess that's for someone in the future to figure out.” 

Every Time I Think About You was recorded at Minneapolis' legendary Creation Audio - where hometown garage-rock heroes The Trashmen cut "Surfin' Bird," and The Replacements made Tim. There, The Cactus Blossoms once again teamed with engineer/mixer Alex Hall (JD McPherson, Nick Lowe) for their most commanding sessions to date, with longtime bandmates Jeremy Hanson (drums), Jacob Hanson (guitar) and Phillip Hicks (bass). In keeping with that made-in-Minnesota ethos, the cover art for Every Time I Think About You is also centered around a painting by one of the state’s most acclaimed painters, George Morrison, a founding figure of Native American modernism: “Spirit Path. New Day. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape,” which hangs in the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Listen to Every Time I Think About You here: http://thecactusblossoms.com/every-time-i-think-about-you/  

 

To celebrate release, The Cactus Blossoms will make their Grand Ole Opry debut tonight, before returning to Nashville for Americana Fest in September. Throughout the Fall, they’ll bring this new music to stages across the country, with a full list of dates below. 

For more info and all tour dates please visit: http://www.thecactusblossoms.com/tour/ 

 

Every Time I Think About You Tracklist 

1. Something’s Got A Hold On Me

2. Go On

3. Be What I Wanna

4. Every Time I Think About You

5. There She Goes

6. Keep Walkin’

7. Statues

8. Is It Any Wonder

9. Honey I’m Homeless

10. Out Of My Mind (On Sunday)

 

The Cactus Blossoms Tour Dates 

Aug 30 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry

Sep 13 - St. Paul, MN - Fitzgerald Theater 

Sep 14 - Superior, WI - Earth Rider Brewery

Sep 20 - Nashville, TN - Americanafest *

Sep 21 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl

Sep 22 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle

Sep 24 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle Back Room

Sep 25 - Washington D.C. - Songbyrd

Sep 27 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s

Sep 28 - New York, NY - The Mercury Lounge

Sep 29 - New York, NY - TV Eye

Oct 02 - Toronto, ON - Monarch Tavern

Oct 03 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag

Oct 04 - Three Oaks, MI - The Acorn

Oct 05 - Chicago, IL - Schubas

 

2025 UK / EU Tour Dates

Jan 30 - Glasgow, UK - Celtic Connections

Jan 31 - York, UK - Pocklington Arts Centre

Feb 1 - Bristol, UK - Exchange

Feb 2 - London, UK - The Garage

Feb 5 - Zaragoza, ESP - Rock andamp; Blues

Feb 6 - Madrid, ESP - Copérnico

Feb 7 - Torremolinos, ESP - Rockin Rac

Feb 8 - Valencia, ESP - Loco Club

Feb 9 - Barcelona, ESP - Razzmatazz 3

Feb 13 - Sint-Niklaas, BE - De Casino

Feb 14 - Haarlem, NL - Patronaat

Feb 15 - Utrecht, NL - dB’s

Feb 16 - Oldenzaal, NL - Kothman