San Francisco jamgrass juggernaut, Hot Buttered Rum, announces their new highly anticipated 10-track album Uphill Highway, out November 7, available now for pre-order HERE and pre-save HERE. Uphill Highway tells stories from the present day, in the band’s most cohesive and fully-realized collection of songs to date. It is a journey from yearning to empowerment, anger to gratitude, and, finally, letting go.

Today the band releases the album’s first single, “Outrage Machine”, kicking off the record with a meditation on the double-edged sword of social media. Nat Keefe writes, “When social media came online, I thought it'd be a democratizing force in the world, give everyone a voice, and connect me to interesting people and ideas. Then they began turning the knobs to increase engagement, which usually meant sending the most angry, reactive content to the top of the feed." The song pulls no punches, and neither does the music video, but still manages to lead with hope. The track ends “I won’t be the fuel for this outrage machine," Keefe croons, inviting the listener to join him.

Uphill Highway includes guest appearances from Allie Kral, Elliott Peck, Kyle Ledson, Sam Chase, Audio Angel, Leif Karlstrom, and Wally Ingram, many of whom are longtime friends and fixtures of the Bay's rich musical tapestry. Erik Yates notes that “getting so many Bay Area folks on board was joy upon joy.”

HBR will mark the album's release with a celebratory concert on November 8th at The Chapel in their hometown of San Francisco; more longtime friends, the T Sisters, join to open the show.

Catch Butter tour throughout Northern California leading up to the release of Uphill Highway.

Upcoming Shows

October 31 – Red Barn at New Family Farm – Sebastopol, CA
November 1 – Little Lake Grange – Willits, CA
November 7 – Stone House – Nevada City, CA
November 8 – The Chapel – San Francisco, CA