Briston Maroney Teams With Indie Rock Icon Ben Kweller For "Poor Things (Feat. Ben Kweller)”
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Briston Maroney is joining forces with indie rock icon Ben Kweller for the brand new single, “Poor Things (Feat. Ben Kweller),” available now via Atlantic Records HERE.
“Poor Things (Feat. Ben Kweller)” puts a fresh collaborative spin on “Poor Things,” one of the many standout tracks featured on Maroney’s recently released third studio album, Jimmy, available everywhere now HERE
"From the second I met Briston and heard his music, I knew we would become great friends,” said Ben Kweller. “He's one of the best in the new gen of rock artists who carry the torch of sincere and heartfelt tunes that make us feel like we're having a conversation with an old friend. 'Poor things' is an ode to our past and to the courage of moving forward even when the direction is unexpected."
JIMMY was co-produced by Maroney with Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee), and the psychedelically-inspired album sees Maroney exploring the profound dichotomy of growing up in dual worlds as a child of divorce, shuttling between the devil-may-care spirit of his mother’s rural North Florida and the intensely pressured life of a Catholic school student in his dad’s Knoxville, TN. Highlights include such deeply personal, guitar-driven tracks as “Real Good Swimmer,” “Tomatoes,” and “Better Than You,” all joined by official music videos streaming now at YouTube. Jimmy was met by a flurry of applause from such outlets as Consequence of Sound, FLOOD, Melodic Magazine, and Ones To Watch, which hailed it as “a crescendo of possibilities, a visual novel set to music that rifts between silly imagination, profound introspection and cheeky self-awareness, a tribute to existing, to be oneself… heightened in awareness, deep in experiences that flesh out beautiful songs, but still full of the bright curiosity that made his music so wondrous off prior albums.”
Maroney – who celebrated the arrival of JIMMY by lighting up crowds across North America alongside Peach Pit on their co-headline “Long Hair, Long Life Tour,” including stops at such world famous venues as New York City’s The Rooftop at Pier 17, San Francisco, CA’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Morrison, CO’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and Los Angeles, CA’s Greek Theatre – recently unveiled plans for his 4th annual Briston Maroney Presents: Paradise, a three-night festival slated for Nashville, TN’s ‘The Blue Room’ on November 5-7. All three dates will feature a headline set from Maroney along with performances from Eden Joel, Cameron Schmidt, Harriette, ash tuesday, Michigander, and Bridey Costello. Tickets for Briston Maroney Presents: Paradise go on sale today at 10 AM (CT) HERE. For complete details, please visit www.bristonmaroney.com/#tour
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BRISTON MARONEY PRESENTS: PARADISE (4TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL)
November 5-7, 2025
The Blue Room, Nashville, TN
NIGHT 1 – November 5
Briston Maroney
Eden Joel
Cameron Schmidt
NIGHT 2 – November 6
Briston Maroney
Harriette
ash tuesday
NIGHT 3 – November 7
Briston Maroney
Michigander
Bridey Costello
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At least at first, Briston Maroney didn’t want to call his explosive and engrossing third album JIMMY. He wanted to call it Jellyfish, the name taken from a poem he wrote when he was nine: “Jellyfish/The whole ocean/But nowhere to go.” That was a year before Maroney wrote his first song and many years before he had the language to describe what he was feeling, depression. That poem was a pivotal moment for Maroney, since he suddenly understood that he could use art and self-expression—at that point, poetry; for the last two decades, mostly music—to help make sense of the turmoil in his mind, heart, and life. But Maroney eventually realized that the idea of the jellyfish was too hopeless for what’s actually happening on JIMMY, a song cycle about scraping the bottom of mental, social, and emotional barrels and holding on long enough to do what can sometimes seem like life’s true masterpiece: simply being yourself.
Maroney’s folks split up before he was a teenager. Like so many kids, he spent the rest of youth shuttling between two places. With his father in the small and quiet city of Knoxville, Tenn., he was relatively privileged but pressured, a Catholic school student on whom great expectations were placed. With his mother in north Florida, a landscape more raw and real than almost any other in the continental United States, he was surrounded by country folks who only seemed to give a damn about one another. They’d show up for oyster roasts and get red-wine drunk on Saturday, then be spiffy for church by Sunday morning.
Maroney didn’t fit in with either deme, really. He was the country guy who loved fishing at dams with his dad in Knoxville, the city slicker Catholic schoolkid back among the mangroves and slash pines. But he was drawn to the devil-may-care spirit of the Floridians, the folks who only wanted to look after each other and themselves. There was one man in particular—perpetually clad in denim shorts and a white Margaritaville T, occasionally a durag—that caught Maroney’s attention. Sure, maybe he was a redneck, but “he was a good friend who people loved,” Maroney remembers. He became the inspiration for JIMMY, for these songs about trying to be nothing more than yourself.
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