Chris Thile has released a new video of him performing "Dionysus," a song from his new solo album, Laysongs, filmed live in Brooklyn. You can watch the video, made by Benjamin Miller, here:

Laysongs is Chris Thile's first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs features the three-part Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters; a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a selection from Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot” based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; and a Hazel Dickens cover.

Thile has two solo concerts in upstate New York this weekend, at Chautauqua Amphitheater in Chautauqua on Saturday and Hudson Valley Ampitheater in Montgomery on Sunday. There are some more shows ahead this summer and a fall tour to come. See below for details and tickets; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

CHRIS THILE ON TOUR