The Hillbilly Thomists: New Album and Summer Tour

Dominicana Records proudly presents Holy Ghost Power—a new album from The Hillbilly Thomists!

The Hillbilly Thomists are a band of friars from the Order of Preachers. In 2017, their debut eponymous album reached #3 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart. Five years later—and on the heels of their 2021 album, Living for the Other Side—the friars returned to their makeshift recording house in the Catskill Mountains for a new purpose: Holy Ghost Power.

With this new record of original songs, The Hillbilly Thomists keep one foot rooted in the Blueridge foothills of Bluegrass and Americana while stepping across the Mississippi into the land of New Orleans delta blues and old Western country. Flowing from the Dominican friars’ life of contemplation, study, and preaching, the thirteen tracks of Holy Ghost Power sing of redeeming love and old-time religion, Diet Coke and Original Sin, pilgrimage and the sweet prospect of the life that awaits beyond the River Jordan’s stormy banks. They’re songs for people who are made of a little bit of angel and a little bit of dust.

The album is now available for purchase.

Following the release of this new record, this summer the friars will also be taking their music on the road. Spanning from July 27 to August 4, The Old Highway Tour will be the first continuous series of public shows by The Hillbilly Thomists.

Starting at the band’s birthplace in Washington, DC (July 27), the friars will make their way through Pittsburgh (July 28), Chicago (July 29), Cincinnati (July 31), Nashville (August 1), and Cleveland (August 4), with a tank full of songs, old and new. A band like none other, The Hillbilly Thomists remain friars preachers even when on the stage, a dynamic that promises to give each show a spiritual itinerary of its own, traveling through this world below and heading for the bright land of that new city lit by the Lamb. For ticket sales and more information, visit www.hillbillythomists.com/tour.

Proceeds from album sales, tickets, donations, and merchandise support the formation of friars at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where The Hillbilly Thomists first came together.