Tale of Two Guns Tour the White Buffalo + Shawn James

For The White Buffalo – aka singer / songwriter / guitarist Jake Smith, Oregon-born, Southern California-raised – it was time to take the less travelled path; to assemble notions for studio album Number 8, the follow-up to ‘On The Widow’s Walk’ (Snakefarm, 2020), and embark on a voyage of discovery. 

Out with the old, the organic, the expected, the tried; in with the new – new producer, new studio, new location, no distractions, no looking back… 

Enter ‘Year Of The Dark Horse’… 

“You think we’re a country band? A folk band? Americana? Rock? What the **** are you gonna say now?!” laughs Jake. “With this album, I wanted something outside of what I’ve ever done. I wanted to open up. Do something dangerous. I’m hard to put into a singular genre as it is, but now I really wanted to take away any kind of preconception or pigeon-holing.