Acclaimed singer, songwriter, producer and performer Joy Oladokun has released her new song, “All My Time,” which is available everywhere now. Listen/share HERE.
Of the track, Oladokun shares, “Being on tour for the past few years has taught me a lot about time zones. I’m constantly calculating how many hours I'm away from the people I love. I wrote ‘All My Time’ during some downtime at a festival in Mexico while checking to see where I was and who I could call. All of it was recorded in the back lounge of the bus where I’m currently racing across America so I can get back to the place I call home.”
Oladokun is currently on “The Blackbird Tour,” which kicked off in January and has seen many sold out dates and features upcoming stops at West Hollywood’s Troubadour (two nights), Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Austin’s Scoot Inn and more. See below for the complete tour itinerary. $1 from each purchase will benefit The Ally Coalition. Full details can be found at www.joyoladokun.com/tour.
The new song and tour celebrate Oladokun’s critically acclaimed album, Observations From a Crowded Room, which was released this past fall. Stream/purchase HERE. Written, produced and largely performed by Oladokun alone, the album marks a personal and creative turning point for the Nashville-based artist and was crafted during a period of intense introspection and questioning. The 15-track collection—comprised of 12 songs and 3 spoken interludes—finds Oladokun reflecting on her place in the world, both as a person and an artist, while blending her pop-folk roots with electronic and psychedelic elements.
Since her breakthrough in 2020, Oladokun has released multiple acclaimed full-length albums—2021’s in defense of my own happiness and 2023’s Proof of Life—both of which landed on numerous best-of-the-year lists. Of Oladokun, The New York Times praises, “her songs are conversational and confessional, and her hooky but profound melodies turn her lyrics into mantras,” while Rolling Stone calls them, “Nashville’s most low-key musical revolutionary…in this time of shifting priorities away from work toward self-care and connection with others, Oladokun is offering a master class in those subjects” and NPR Music asserts, “She has a remarkable ability to distill how forces at work in the world…she can make even social and political protest feel like an intimate, warmly human act.”
Moreover, in the last few years, Oladokun—a proud queer Black person and daughter of Nigerian immigrants—has performed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “CBS Saturday Morning,” “TODAY,” PBS’ “Austin City Limits and NPR Music’s “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” series. Oladokun’s music has also been included in the Al Sharpton documentary, Loudmouth, CBS’ “CSI: Vegas,” NBC’s “This Is Us,” ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC’s “Station 19,” NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and HBO’s “And Just Like That,” while her song, “i see america,” was also selected as a finalist for the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Award, Best Song for Social Change. Widely respected by her peers, Oladokun has collaborated with artists such as Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Jack Antonoff, Jason Isbell and Noah Kahan and has joined Morris, Isbell, Kahan, John Mayer, Hozier, My Morning Jacket, Tyler Childers, Pink Sweat$, Leon Bridges and Manchester Orchestra on the road.
JOY OLADOKUN CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
March 12—West Hollywood, CA—Troubadour
March 13—West Hollywood, CA—Troubadour
March 15—Pioneertown, CA—Pappy + Harriet’s
March 16—San Diego, CA—The Observatory at North Park
March 18—Phoenix, AZ—The Van Buren
March 19—Santa Fe, NM—Meow Wolf
March 21—Dallas, TX—Studio at The Factory
March 22—Austin, TX—Scoot Inn
March 25—Birmingham, AL—Saturn
March 27—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium
May 5-7—Miramar Beach, FL—Moon Crush: The Sea & ME
July 5—Asbury Park, NJ—Stone Pony Summer Stage+
July 6—Wilmington, NC—Live Oak Bank Pavilion+
July 7—Asheville, NC—Asheville Yards Amphitheater+
+supporting Gary Clark Jr.
