Katie Pruitt - Fools for the Fleeting (Blue Vinyl)

Blue Blend Eco-Mix Vinyl LP

This edition presses Fools for the Fleeting onto a single LP of what the distributor calls Blue Blend Eco-Mix vinyl; the disc in the product image is a marbled blue. Rounder's own store lists the album on blue and on gray eco-mix vinyl, and it is also issued on CD. The ten songs run five to a side. It is the third album from Katie Pruitt.

Isaiah Beard produced nine of the ten songs and plays guitar and bass on the record. The exception is "Blackout," a duet with singer-songwriter Nolan Taylor, produced by Jake Finch and Collin Pastore. The players include Juan Solorzano on guitar, Aksel Coe on drums, David Crutcher on keyboards, Maggie Chaffee on cello and Laura Epling on violin, and Sierra Hull sings and plays mandolin on "Orion's Belt."

Pruitt has said the album "came from trying to figure out how to move forward in a world that feels aggressively chaotic and constantly in flux." Its announcement describes songs about transience and grief, with natural disasters running through several of the lyrics. "Blackout" began during a spring 2025 tornado outbreak that nearly hit her house in Nashville, when an ex reached out to make sure she was all right; it was released as the first single on June 12, 2026. "The Aftermath," the second song, is the video above.

Pruitt was born in Atlanta in 1994 and began singing as a child in musical theater productions. She won the Songwriters Hall of Fame's Buddy Holly Prize in 2017 and has recorded for Rounder since 2019. Her debut album, Expectations, arrived on February 21, 2020; its title song reached No. 20 on the US AAA chart, and she was nominated that year for Emerging Act of the Year at the Americana Honors & Awards. Mantras followed in 2024.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Matching Tattoos
2. The Aftermath
3. Blackout (feat. Nolan Taylor)
4. Disaster
5. Little Boxes

Side B

6. Not Scared to Die
7. Fools for the Fleeting
8. If I Call You Mine
9. Orion's Belt (feat. Sierra Hull)
10. As Far As Forever