“I’m more famous on the internet than I am in real life.” That’s how Logan Halstead greeted the crowd at the FoxFire Music Festival in Ashland, Kentucky last fall and he wasn’t wrong. The young man had only a few videos out and a limited touring schedule under his belt at the time but with the upcoming release of his debut album Black Dark Coal, set to drop May 5 and distributed by Thirty Tigers, that should change.

His story really begins in 2020 when the world was in pandemic lockdown and Logan released a cellphone video of a tune he had written a few years before, at the age of 15. With a haunting chorus you would associate with someone much older, that song was “Black Dark Coal.”