Judah & the Lion’s debut full-length album Kids These Days! is due out September 9 via Nashville’s Good Time Records, the album was produced by the talented Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson).
In addition, the band will be kicking off their first ever U.S. headlining tour in October that will have them out through Thanksgiving.
Judah & the Lion originally came to be in 2011. The three members met through mutual friends when Judah – guitar, lead vocals – was looking for a banjo player to write music with him. He was introduced to Nate who plays banjo and Brian who plays mandolin and the three hit it off immediately. While coming from somewhat different backgrounds mostly thanks to geography – Judah is from Tennessee, Nate is from Colorado and Brian is from Illinois – the three discovered that they not only shared a love of music but also shared similar values and belief systems which made their initial bond even stronger.
They released a pair of EPs – First Fruit in 2012 and Sweet Tennessee in April 2013, the later which landed on several Billboard album charts – No. 2 on the “Bluegrass,” No. 9 on “Heatseekers” and No. 15 on “Folk” – thanks largely in part to a couple of extremely successful campaigns on Noisetrade.