Brian Setzer finds 'The Devil Always Collects' on album slated for September

BRIAN SETZER’s new album THE DEVIL ALWAYS COLLECTS is due out Sept. 15 via Surfdog Records digitally, on CD and vinyl. The 3-time Grammy award-winner has shared the album’s first track and video, “Girl On The Billboard.” Listen to the song and pre-order the album HERE and watch the animated video HERE. BRIAN will support the album, his first since 2021’s Gotta Have The Rumble, this fall on his U.S “ROCKABILLY RIOT” tour starting September 27 (the dates are below).

The Devil Always Collects was co-produced by BRIAN SETZER and Julian Raymond and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge. Of “Girl On The Billboard,” popularized in 1965 by country music singer Del Reeves, he says, “It’s an old truckers song”...At first, I wasn’t getting the sound I wanted until I picked up my Gretsch 1957 Duo Jet 6131 Firebird. I mean, the sound is monstrous, dirty and twangy.”

Marking his first live shows in over four years, the “ROCKABILLY RIOT” tour will kick off September 27 at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ and wrap in Minneapolis (his adopted hometown). For these dates, SETZER will be joined by, in his words, an “international rockabilly band, Chris D’Rozario from Melbourne, Australia and Juan Laurios from Mexico City, Mexico.” Although BRIAN has a 40-year career as a solo artist, leader of The Brian Setzer Orchestra and as a Stray Cat, he continues to play with a jaw-dropping level of vigor. Tickets are on sale at: www.briansetzer.com.

“I’ve had a pretty long break, and I needed it,” says BRIAN. “I’m renewed and really want to play live again. I want to just get out on the road with this kick-ass little 3-piece band and start playing.”

He adds, “I think fans can always expect that I’m going to play the hits. I also want to play some solo guitar and little things I’ve worked out by myself. I’ve never really gotten to do that, so it's going to be something new.”

His set lists will include “some of the favorite covers I’m doing now. I haven’t recorded it, but I really like playing my version of ‘Georgia On My Mind.’ And then with the band, I want to play a new song ‘Girl On The Billboard’ because it tells a fun story.”

Track listing:

1 Rock Boys Rock

2. The Devil Always Collects
3. Girl On The Billboard
4. The Living Dead
5. What’ll It Be Baby Doll?
6. Black Leather Jacket

7. She’s Got A Lotta...Soul!
8. Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)
9. A Dude’ll Do (What a Dude’ll Do)
10. Psycho Suzie
11. One Particular Chick

Tour Dates:

Wednesday, September 27
Red Bank, NJ
Count Basie Center for the Arts

Friday, September 29
Mashantucket, CT
Foxwoods Resort Casino – Premier Theater

Saturday, September 30
Greensburg, PA
The Palace Theatre

Monday, October 2
Nashville, TN
Ryman Auditorium

Tuesday, October 3
Cincinnati, OH
Taft Theatre

Thursday, October 5
Nashville, IN
Brown County Music Center

Friday, October 6
Northfield, OH
MGM Northfield Park

Saturday, October 7
Waukegan, IL
The Genesee Theatre

Monday, October 9
Madison, WI
The Orpheum Theater

Tuesday, October 10
Des Moines, IA
Hoyt Sherman Place

Thursday, October 12
Davenport, IA
Adler Theatre

Friday, October 13
Minneapolis, MN
State Theatre