William Fitzsimmons: Tour/Album
By Team JamBase Jun 29, 2009 • 9:22 am PDT

“File next to: Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Elliott Smith.” -The Guardian, U.K.
“an uncensored glimpse of one man’s heartache from start to finish.” -The Boston Globe
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Fitzsimmons is touring in support of the newly released Live Sessions EP, Recorded at Downtown Studios, as well as his full length The Sparrow and The Crow. The Live Sessions EP is available exclusively through iTunes.
Fitzsimmons’ recent full length The Sparrow and The Crow has already been greeted with significant critical acclaim. The Washington Post called the disc a “…doleful but delicately lovely album,” while the Boston Herald said, “Powerfully heart-wrenching and yet so delicate you fear a breath might blow it right out of the CD player, singer-songwriter Fitzsimmons’ chronicle of his divorce is a near-masterpiece. Recalling both the cornhusker folk-rock of early Joe Henry and the doomed intimacy of Nick Drake, The Sparrow and the Crow makes art and beauty out of tragedy without selling the tragedy short…”
Exploring both love and loss, the material on The Sparrow and The Crow and Live Sessions EP, Recorded at Downtown Studios, could be best described as a confession and apology to Fitzsimmons’s former wife. Raised in Pittsburgh by two blind parents, William Fitzsimmons has recorded two previous home studio albums, Goodnight and Until When We Are Ghosts, while finishing a grad program in Mental Health. After securing his Masters and becoming a therapist, Fitzsimmons has decided to focus on his music career.
Tour Dates
07/03/09 Fri 80/35 Festival Des Moines, IA
07/08/09 Wed Majestic Theatre Madison, WI
07/09/09 Thu Pioneer Place Theater St. Cloud, MN
07/10/09 Fri Knickerbockers Lincoln, NE
07/11/09 Sat Saddle Creek Bar Omaha, NE
07/12/09 Sun The Soiled Dove Underground Denver, CO
07/14/09 Tue Star Bar Park City, UT
07/15/09 Wed Neurolux Boise, ID
07/16/09 Thu Panida Theatre Sandpoint, ID
07/17/09 Fri High Dive Seattle, WA
07/19/09 Sun Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
07/21/09 Tue WOW Hall Eugene, OR
07/22/09 Wed Marilyn’s on K Sacramento, CA
07/23/09 Thu The Independent San Francisco, CA
07/24/09 Fri Lestat’s San Diego, CA
07/25/09 Sat The Hotel Cafe Los Angeles, CA
07/26/09 Sun Wanderlust Festival Lake Tahoe, CA
07/28/09 Tue Santa Fe Brewing Company Santa Fe, NM
07/29/09 Wed Bash Riprock’s Lubbock, TX
07/30/09 Thu Cactus Cafe Austin, TX
07/31/09 Fri Lola’s Sixth Fort Worth, TX
08/04/09 Tue The Mercy Lounge Nashville, TN
08/05/09 Wed The Square Room Knoxville, TN
08/06/09 Thu Firebird St. Louis, MO
08/08/09 Sat Teatro Manuel Doblado León, MX
08/10/09 Mon Joe’s Pub New York, NY
08/15/09 Sat Haldern Pop Festival Haldern, GER
08/16/09 Sun Dockville Festival Hamburg, GER
08/26/09 Wed The Paradiso Amsterdam, NL
08/28/09 Fri Paard van Troje Haag, NL
08/29/09 Sat Sound Of The Forest Festival Odenwald/Hüttenthal, GER
09/04/09 Fri Knickerbocker Theatre Holland, MI