GSHS alum Tim Higgins at Big Beach Feb. 29

GSHS alum Tim Higgins at Big Beach Feb. 29
Songwriter’s album BLIGHT released day before his hometown gig

Gulf Shores High School alum Tim Higgins will release his debut record, BLIGHT, a day before playing a hometown gig with his band on Feb. 29 at Big Beach Brewing Co. in Gulf Shores.
Recorded on the Folk Victorian Record label, the album was written primarily during Higgins’ time living in a decaying Victorian mansion in Tuscaloosa. And its songs are informed by his futile fight against developers to preserve the turn-of-the-century blighted neighborhood.
Higgins uses the concept of blight as a lens through which to focus on what is often considered diseased in society, the environment and personal relationships.
These songs couple and at times contrast Higgins’ growling vocals with a driving urgency provided by members of The Prescriptions (Single Lock Records). The album also features contributions from Alex Caress (Little Bandit), LG (Thelma & the Sleaze), and Kyshona Armstrong. The arrangements and musicianship on BLIGHT tell Higgins’ stories of misfits, orphans, and ruins as importantly as the lyrics.
In November 2018, Higgins released the title track from the album. The song’s music video offers listeners the first visual into Higgins’ world – where the Detroit native has taken root in the Deep South’s atmosphere of resilience, decadence and decay. Filmed on location around Greensboro, Alabama, the video shows opulent mansions juxtaposed against crumbling theatre stages, rotting houses, and kudzu laden gardens. The song was included on Rolling Stone Country’s Best New Music list.
Higgins’ singular voice has been lauded across the US, most notably by NPR Music critic Ann Powers. His most recent performance on the Gulf Coast was last November during the 35th annual Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival.
BLIGHT is an explosive debut that establishes Higgins as a unique voice who seamlessly pairs Rock n Roll, Folk, and Americana with an ominous and cinematic quality.