Richy Mitch & the Coal Miners’s Fourth Studio Album, ‘Colorado’s on Fire Again,’ Out Today

Today, Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners confirm their 46-date headlining tour of the EU/UK and North America in celebration of their fourth studio album, Colorado’s On Fire Again. The tour starts in August with three shows in British Columbia, followed by a September tour of the EU/UK in cities including Dublin, London, Paris, and Berlin. The band will tour the US in October and November, with shows in cities such as Chicago, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Nashville, Atlanta, and more (full dates below).  Artist Presale begins Wednesday, April 3, at 10 am local time, with tickets for all dates going on sale to the public this Friday, April 4, at 10 am local time.  Sign up for early access to tickets here.

Listen to Colorado’s On Fire Again

Richy Mitch & the Coal Miners Tour Dates (New Dates in Bold)

May 31                  Lexington, KY                                      Railbird Music Festival
Jun 7                       Healdsburg, CA                                BloodRoot Ramble
Jun 12                    Anchorage, AK                                   49th State Brewing
Jun 13                    Hope, AK                                                Creekbend Cafe
Jun 14                    Hope, AK                                                Creekbend Cafe
Aug 9                      Calgary, AB                                          Scotiabank Saddledome
Aug 5                     Victoria, BC                                        The Capital Ballroom
Aug 6                     Vancouver, BC                                Commodore Ballroom
Aug 7                     Kelowna, BC                                     Revelry Food + Music Hub
Sept 2                   Dublin, IE                                              Academy
Sept 3                   Glasgow, UK                                     Òran Mór
Sept 5                   London, UK                                         Electric Ballroom
Sept 6                   Manchester, UK                            Gorilla
Sept 8                   Paris, FR                                                Le Hasard Ludique
Sept 9                   Amsterdam, NL                              Paradiso
Sept 10                Brussels, BE                                      Le Botanique
Sept 12                Berlin, DE                                             Lido
Sept 13                Munich, DE                                         Strom
Sept 14                Cologne, DE                                      Gebäude 9
Sept 16                Copenhagen, DK                          Pumpehuset
Sept 17                Oslo, NO                                                John Dee
Sept 18                Stockholm, SE                                Debaser
Oct 5                      Kansas City, MO                           Warehouse on Broadway
Oct 6                      Columbia, MO                                 The Blue Note
Oct 7                      Des Moines, IA                                Wooly’s
Oct 9                      Minneapolis, MN                          First Avenue
Oct 10                  Madison, WI                                      The Sylvee
Oct 11                  Chicago, IL                                          The Salt Shed
Oct 13                  Lakewood, OH                                The Roxy
Oct 14                  Detroit, MI                                           Saint Andrew’s Hall
Oct 15                  Toronto, ON                                       Danforth Music Hall
Oct 17                  Boston, MA                                         Citizens House of Blues Boston
Oct 18                  New York, NY                                   Webster Hall
Oct 21                  Washington, DC                            9:30 Club
Oct 24                  Philadelphia, PA                            Union Transfer
Oct 25                  Charlottesville, VA                     The Jefferson Theater
Oct 26                  Asheville, NC                                   Orange Peel
Oct 28                  Nashville, TN                                    Brooklyn Bowl
Oct 29                  Atlanta, GA                                         Variety Playhouse
Oct 31                  Oklahoma City, OK                     Tower Theatre
Nov 1                     Austin, TX                                             Scoot Inn
Nov 2                     Houston, TX                                       White Oak Music Hall
Nov 3                     Dallas, TX                                             The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
Nov 5                     Santa Fe, NM                                    Meow Wolf
Nov 8                     Los Angeles, CA                            The Fonda Theatre
Nov 11                 San Francisco, CA                      The Fillmore
Nov 14                 Eugene, OR                                         McDonald Theatre
Nov 15                 Portland, OR                                     Crystal Ballroom
Nov 16                 Seattle, WA                                        Neptune Theatre
Nov 18                 Boise, ID                                                Treefort Music Hall
Nov 19                 Salt Lake City, UT                         The Depot
Nov 20                  Denver, CO                                         Mission Ballroom
 
 
Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners’s fourth studio album, Colorado’s On Fire Again, is out now. “The three of us grew up in communities that were devastated by the Hayman, Waldo Canyon, and Black Forest fires,” Mitch Cutts of the band shares. “It felt like every year there was another major fire in our state that devastated communities and people around us. Colorado’s on Fire Again tries to capture the feeling the three of us shared of our world slowly burning down, and how wildfire tends to be a part of this cyclical ecology where devastation is followed by eventual rebirth.” Jakob Ervin of the band adds “this album has taken on new meaning as we’ve gotten closer and closer to finishing it and putting it out. From the hurricanes that destroyed parts of Florida and North Carolina, to the fires in LA, it’s scary to see that large-scale ecological disasters are far more frequent and deadly than ever before, and the finishing of this album coinciding with these tragedies serves as an eerie reminder of that.” Colorado’s On Fire Again is available on all formats here.

The band recently shared the album’s first single “Berry Herman“. “The message of Colorado’s On Fire Again is best conveyed on Berry Herman,” Cutts says, “which essentially is about putting the past behind you to lay ground for a new future; to break things down or let them burn into nothing to clear space for new life and new growth.” 50% of proceeds from the song will go toward Colorado Wildfire Councils and 50% will go toward MusiCares LA Fire Relief efforts until the end of 2025. Additionally, the rest of Colorado’s On Fire Again‘s proceeds will go toward Wildfire Councils across Colorado until April 15th. Fans can also donate via the band’s Instagram fundraiser. Listen to “Berry Herman” here.
 
What began as a high school passion project for the members of Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners —Mitch Cutts, Nic Haughn, and Jakob Ervin—has quietly translated to billions of streams and sold-out headlining tours. Growing up in Colorado Springs, their friendship preceded the band. Throughout high school, Mitch and Nic played on the same sports teams, launched YouTube channels, went on hiking trips, shot home movies, and eventually decided to record an album of their own. In 2017, the band cut their self-titled debut, RMCM. Unexpectedly, the one-minute and 27-second intro “Evergreen” went viral on TikTok, and it has since generated over half a billion Spotify streams and the group has averaged north of 20 million monthly listeners on the platform. It notably has cracked the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Rock Songs Chart, and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart. Since then, the band has released two additional albums, Solstice [2018] and Subliming [2019], completed two headlining tours, and performed at festivals including Lollapalooza, Under The Big Sky and Hinterland.

Along with the band’s friendship, another constant in their life was the phrase “Colorado’s on fire again”, the first line of their new song “Berry Herman” and a sentence the band grew up hearing almost every summer. “I grew up splitting time between Colorado Springs and Florissant in Southern Colorado,” Cutts shares. “Florissant is near the massive burn scar of the Hayman Fire of 2002, and Colorado Springs is known for the Waldo Canyon Fire of 2012 and Black Forest Fire of 2013. For most of my life, these were all on the list of the most destructive fires in the state’s history. They displaced families, destroyed forests we grew up in, and took away our chance of returning to that area for years; it would never be the same.”
 
This devastation also led to rebirth, a theme that the band captures in the album, both in the literal sense, the way charred pines lead to new sprigs, as well as figuratively, in how people constantly reinvent themselves, burning off old layers to build themselves up from the ashes. “This album overall is about the coupling of devastation and restoration,” Cutts says. “Like wildfire, there’s a cyclical nature of devastation and restoration to everything we feel in this life — the culmination of love is grief, but the pain we all feel will eventually end. For me, the overall message is one of hope for a better future by documenting a lot of the devastation happening in our world today.”

Richy Mitch & the Coal Miners- Colorado’s on Fire Again Tracklisting

1. Berry Herman
2. Churchill
3. Santiago
4. Homebody
5. For the Jets
6. Precurser
7. Xrunk
8. Heywood
9. Hensons
10. Talons
11. Sweet Summer
12. El, Imponderable
13. 7052 Days
14. October Moon