SOLOMON HICKS Celebrates Release of New “How Did I Ever Get This Blue?” Album with Lyric Video ‘Flyin’ (High Yesterday)’

The Harlem-hotshot Solomon Hicks today releases his new album How Did I Ever Get This Blue? via Artone/Provogue. You can stream and order it HERE.

To celebrate, Hicks has revealed the video for his new single Flyin’ High (Yesterday). He takes on the song by the late-Texan blues singer and guitarist Johnny Copeland – father of Shemekia Copeland. The song was originally released on the album of the same name in 1992.

Talking about the song, Hicks says, “That one, I first heard done by a drummer called Barry Harrison. We were playing B.B. King’s in New York, and I remember Barry coming out with this song. And it felt like putting the key in the car ignition and taking off down a dirt road. The song didn’t really hit me until I got to experience life and those highs and lows. It felt good to play a song from a blues artist like Johnny Copeland that you don’t hear as much, and put that guitar stamp on it.”

Flyin’ High (Yesterday) is the latest single to be taken from the album following Driftin’ And Driftin’ where Hicks put his own spin on the song popularised by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on their 1967 album The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw and Further On Up The Road – made famous by Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland

The album includes untamed reworkings of Adele’s Rumour Has It and Bruno Mars’ When I Was Your Man (not to mention Hicks’ originals, How Did I Ever Get This Blue and I’m Burnin’ Up). Far from a ‘covers album’, each song unfolds as you’ve never heard it before. “I’m not looking to copy or recreate sounds from the past,” he explains..

Hicks is a thrilling paradox, a sonic contradiction. He’s an old-soul roots scholar who salutes ancient musical forms – blues, jazz, soul, funk, gospel – but also a renegade gunslinger here to bend, stretch and scratch them for the modern world. His songs range from earworm originals, past pop covers torn up with electronica and punky riffs, to reignited blues standards that prove how potent this genre still is in the right hands.

Track Listing

1. Further On Up The Road
2. Dimples
3. Driftin’ And Driftin’
4. AllYour Love [I Miss Lovin’]
5. Flyin’ High (Yesterday)
6.How Did I Ever Get This Blue?
7. I’m Burnin; Up
8. When I Was Your Man
9. Rumour has It
10. Feels Like Rain

2026 Tour Dates

Feb 6, South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ
Feb 26, The Funky Biscuit, Boca Raton, FL
Feb 28, 2026, Vero Beach Blues Festival, Vero Beach, FL

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