In The Bible, his previous album of original material released in 2022, Kurt Wagner posed those difficult questions that tend to haunt us more insistently once we have lived a long life: he addressed death, the body as it ceases to be young, the aging of his father, or, put simply, offered us a reflection on time but one marked by peace, without conflict or fear.

If we needed an image for this moment in Kurt Wagner’s life, here it is now, accompanying this tour: the American musician gazing back at us with a serene expression and a long beard, as though symbolically telling us that time is a good companion.