We’re so pleased to welcome Katie Pruitt back to Grimey’s on Tuesday, September 15th for a special early record release celebration and to help us kick off AmericanaFest 2026 week! Due out officially on September 18th, Fools for the Fleeting, Katie’s third full-length album, will be available at Grimey’s a few days early and Katie will be on site that day performing songs from her new record and signing copies for attendees. All who preorder Katie’s new album in advance from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for her post-performance album signing. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and they guarantee your entrance to the event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need wristbands if attending with wristband-holding adults.) You can read more about the new Katie Pruitt album and place your preorder on our site here.
Less than a decade into her career, Katie Pruitt has cemented her status as an essential artist who helps us make sense of modern life and uncover meaningful ways of moving through it. Since the arrival of her critically celebrated full-debut Expectations (a 2020 LP that earned her an Emerging Artist of the Year nomination from the Americana Music Association), the Georgia-bred singer/songwriter/guitarist has assembled an acclaimed body of work exploring questions both existential and intimate (e.g., identity, self-acceptance, the quiet courage of living truthfully). On her new album Fools for the Fleeting, the Nashville-based musician reckons with the impermanence inherent to being human. Her most outward-reaching and philosophically rich work to date, the result is a luminous meditation on transience and grief, connection as survival, and the transformative power of presence and surrender.
A prime showcase for Pruitt’s warm and soulful voice, Fools for the Fleeting earns its keep as the album’s title track: an aching and undeniably honest breakup song that gently dissolves the illusion of permanence, striking an intricate balance of hard-earned wisdom and unfiltered emotion (from the second verse: “But this time I won’t beg the moment to last / ‘Cause love is a question you don’t have to ask / I just hope you don’t mind if I take my time turning the page”). “I wrote ‘Fools for the Fleeting’ in a hotel bathroom in Vermont, all in one night—it was one of those lightning-bolt moments that felt important right away,” Pruitt recalls. “The more I sat with it, the more I realized it encapsulates the heart of the album. As humans we have this invincibility complex where we think nothing’s ever going to change. But accepting that time runs out can actually help you to live more intentionally.”
We love Katie and are super pumped to celebrate Fools For the Fleeting with her and all of you! Preorder your copy in the record shop or on our site here now to lock in your wristband and we’ll see you in the record store on Tuesday, 9/15!
