Growing up on the blues, Marcus King was just 17 when he founded his eponymous band in 2013. By that point, he’d been playing shows with his father, famed South Carolina blues guitarist Marvin King, for nearly a decade. The southern rock/blues band took a bit of a hiatus as its frontman’s star rose, releasing solo albums like Young Blood and Mood Swings. Now, the “F— My Life Up Again” crooner, 29, is getting the band for back together for a new album this fall.
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New Marcus King Band Album Is “A Love Letter to the Place That Made Me”
According to a social media announcement Friday (July 11), the Marcus King Band will drop its fourth full-length album, Darling Blue, on Sept. 26, 2025. This marks the band’s first project since 2018’s Carolina Confessions.
Drawing inspiration from his home state of South Carolina, King called the album ” a love letter to the place that made me.”
“We’ve got some incredible features and surprises in store with this one,” the Grammy winner wrote. “Can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”
Fans can pre-save the album here. The album’s first single, ““Here Today,” featuring Jamey Johnson and Kaitlin Butts, is out now.
“The song came together in that organic way that happens when you’re just hanging out with friends instead of being on the clock,” King said.
In a statement, the blues virtuoso said Darling Blue delves further into his own experiences with addiction and mental health struggles.
“It truly felt like home,” King said. “Like my band and I were just working out songs to perform live but ended up creating a piece of recorded music for our fans to hear. Our goal is always to be a vessel and allow the music to flow through us and tap into something that’s already there in the room.”
“But more than anything I’ve done before,” he continued, “this album felt like a real concerted effort to make music for myself, and for ourselves as a band—creating for the love of creating and being as honest as we possibly can. We put everything we had into making something that we love and we have faith that the audience will feel that and love it too.”
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