Will Stewart Announces Fourth Album, "Moon Winx", due February 28th

Earth Libraries is proud to announce the release of Will Stewart's fourth studio album, Moon Winx, due February 28th (Digital / LP). 

Stewart’s newest offering sees him poised to deliver his most ambitious project yet, with a 10-track song cycle centered around the iconic, and now defunct, Moon Winx Lodge in Tuscaloosa, AL, and some of the characters and scenarios— both real and imagined— that have played themselves out there over the years. Weaving a compelling through line that simultaneously ties together true historical events— like the time Alabama jazz legend Sun Ra stayed at the lodge during a legendary three night run at The Chukker and the Arkestra were seen trying the white bread and ribs at Dreamland BBQ— with made-up personas and human drama that exists only in Stewart’s imagined mythology, Moon Winx threads the needle between fact and fiction like the best in Southern literature, and all wrapped up in the geographical vernacular of rock, country and rhythm and blues. 

As Flannery Conner once famously wrote in Wise Blood, “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place. Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

And that, dear reader, is exactly the space where the Moon Winx Lodge has resided all along.

Words by Lee Shook (@theaudiovore)