Everybody knows (or must know!) Micah P. Hinson, a cult figure in American alt-folk, born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Texas in a religious family of Chickasaw origins. After a difficult adolescence and years of instability, he debuted in 2004 with Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress, which received critical acclaim, especially in Europe. Since then, Hinson has built a distinctive career marked by raw honesty, literary lyricism, and a timeless blend of folk and country, with a hint of psychedelia. His following records — Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit (2006), Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra (2008), and Micah P. Hinson and the Pioneer Saboteurs (2010) — expanded his sound and deepened his reputation as a singular storyteller with a bruised soul. Later works like Micah P. Hinson and the Nothing (2014), Micah P. Hinson Presents: The Holy Strangers (2017), and When I Shoot at You with Arrows, I Will Shoot to Destroy You (2018) confirmed his status as one of the most authentic voices in contemporary Americana, exploring themes of faith, heartbreak, and redemption with cinematic intensity. After ten albums, including the most recent, I Lie to You (produced in Italy by Asso Stefana), he went through a profound creative crisis in 2020. The turning point came again with Stefana: together they recorded The Tomorrow Man, written between Texas and Spain. Despite personal struggles and periods of silence, Hinson continues to be a restless creative force, a modern troubadour whose songs echo the ghosts and grace of a timeless America.
The Tomorrow Man will be out next October 31st, via Ponderosa Music Records.

What He Says: “When I wrote this song,my life was changing drastically, and day by day. The things I held dear, and the things that held me dear, were changing. The things I once held close were now seen as hindrances. The love I once felt had turned to something more akin to control. They were strange times,and times that could only hold me hostage for so long. This song represents the freedom of finding a new day, a new way to live, and the pain of leavin gold lives behind. We can only be prisoner of our own lives if we allow it, but, yes, I know -as most things in life- change comes with a price and freedom comes with consequences”.

“The concept of a “murder ballad” is an old thing now, now that we live here in the future. It is an imaginative devise that can bring some sort of strange release in the heart of the writer, i am sure, as well as to the listener. I wrote my first “murder ballad” almost 20 years ago now, and the romanticism of such a creature can be a welcomed home to the heartbroken and a refuge for the disillusioned. When life does not give us the things we want, which we all know can easily be wrong, or misguided at best, we can create our own lands, our own narratives, that can bring solace and hope.“

“When you feel sadness, you put up walls. When you feel confusion, you put up walls. When youfeel fear, you put up walls. As we live, those walls get taller. As we distrust, those walls get thicker.Next thing we know we are covered all around bythese walls we’ve created out of all the tangledwebs we spin with our decisions. Behind our walls, our self dictated asylums, we cannot hear theothers, though they might yell and scream. Behind our walls, our self made prisons, we cannot seethe light, though it might shine brighter than ever before. It is only natural. We are surviving. Witheach wall up, surrounding us, there is no hope of survival, or positive survival. We are, at once, ourown judge, prisoner, and guard-making escape almost impossible. And, though we know this, weclearly ignore it, because love is not created in a vacuum-and hope is not distilled sorrow. We mustlook through the cracks, see the world around us, break through just a small portion of ourconfinements, reach out to thehand that is waiting for us. It is there. It must be there. We must findthat hand on the outside of the boundaries of our sadness and trauma and let the sun touch our skin.“

His Mixtape:

Stephen Wilson Jr. – Tonight, Tonight

I remember sitting with my brother in his car, as a teenager, and listening to this Smashing Pumpkins album for the first time. It was a revelation. This is a new man on the country scene -he must’ve come from the same time as me, and it’s strange to be this old, looking back this far.

Electric Light Orchestra – Bluebird

I never knew ELO growing up. I wish I had known of them, because they are brilliant. They speak to me unlike any other band from this time. They sound sincere. I would have loved them.

Mikayla Geier – Piano In The Sky

I am getting older and the older I get the younger others are. It’s strange for me to find new acts, because I feel too old to listen to them. I shouldn’t be ashamed.

The Band – The Night They Drove Dixie Down

I come from a strange land -full of strange things and strange people. Our history is chock full of violence. The history of my people, the Chickasaws, is full of violence and strange things that happened to us at the hand of a group of people that will never quite know what is happening, what they are doing, and what they will become.

Centromatic – Fountains Of Fire

I used to go into Denton, TX on a head full of LSD. I used to go see this band play on a head full of LSD -and they spoke to me. They were local boys. They were local boys who could write songs that moved me. This was not common.

Artemas – I Like The Way You Kiss Me

This is something I would have adored when I was half my current age. Again, there is a strange shame in finding new music cause I feel like I am listening to children, and I feel too old to listen to children, but, here I am, doing it and it gives me hope that children can find hooks and sing songs about being perverts. It is hopeful.

Josh T Pearson – Country Dumb (Piano Version)

The life and history of a hillbilly is a complex and sad endeavor. Part of my blood is from the Chickasaw -a strong and fearsome people that walked the soil of my land for 10,000 years. Part of my blood is from lost, confused immigrants that left their homelands to find something better, but, in the end, it is impossible to escape who you are and what you have become.

Pulp – Babies

It was about to be the turn of the century. I was a teenager, graduating high school, writing songs, smoking grass, chasing skirts -and this song constantly played in my ears.

The Tomorrow Man will be out on October 31st via Ponderosa Music Records. Look HERE for more information on Micha P. Hinson.