Marcus King - The Pageant - St. Louis, MO - 05.29.24

Mood Swings The World Tour

Marcus King

with JJ Wilde

About Marcus King

Marcus King faces heartache, addiction, and mental health head-on in his music. Pain quakes below the vibrato of his voice, and his delivery weighs heavy with booze-drenched regrets and mistakes in lonely hotels. The GRAMMY® nominated fourth generation musician from Greenville, SC, started playing guitar at 8-years-old following in the footsteps of his guitarist Father and Grandpa. Logging thousands of miles on the road as “The Marcus King Band,” he established himself with unparalleled performance prowess.

During 2020, he linked up with Dan Auerbach and cut his solo debut El Dorado, garnering a GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Best Americana Album.” Between headlining venues, he performed alongside Chris Stapleton, Greta Van Fleet, and Nathanial Rateliff in addition to gracing the bills of Stagecoach and more. He has launched various mental health initiatives, including a guitar auction collaboration with MusiCares. Now, his 2024 album Mood Swings feels like the moment of baptism when water washes away a life’s worth of sins and degradation and all that’s left is a revived, yet still real-as-hell primal scream.

It’s as if King strained raw soul straight from his gut up through that broken heart and on to the record under the watchful eye of Rick...

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About JJ Wilde

JJ Wilde sings from down deep, telling her soulful stories in a voice that embraces the legacy of Rock n Roll, and brings it into the 21st century.Called “a voice that commands the stage …. an undeniable rock star in the making,” byBBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, Kitchener-based Wilde, is the breakthrough new voice of a movement of independent female artists who have characterized Rock n Roll music over the past decade. She has been recognized internationally, performing and recording with artists including The Glorious Sons, Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, TheStruts, and Reignwolf. With a recent JUNO award nomination for “Rock Album Of The Year,” 12 Million global streams on her debut album release, a Top 10 track, “The Rush,” on the renownedOuiFM in France, and a historic run at Canada’s three Mediabase rock radio charts, JJWilde is one of Canada’s most promising musical exports.