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Premiere: R.O. Shapiro Shares New Single “I Just Wanna Dance With You”

New EP Worthy is Out on February 7th

Jan 14, 2025 Photography by Brit Powers

Early next month, folk singer/songwriter R.O. Shapiro is set to share his new EP, Worthy, due out on February 7th. Shapiro first got his start with the acoustic trio Odell Fox, but in recent years he’s been crafting a winding style blending together folk. alt country, soul, and Americana with his 2021 album, King Electric Sessions. The EP came together after Shapiro relocated from Austin, TX to San Diego, CA to live with his longtime partner. That domesticity ended up coloring the songs, resulting in four warm, lived-in tributes to love and community.

Last year, Shapiro shared the EP’s lead single, “Worthy,” and today he’s back with another new track, “I Just Wanna Dance With You,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“I Just Wanna Dance With You” fills out the A-side to the EP alongside “Worthy.” Both songs came out of recording sessions with producer Phil Cook (Bon Iver, Hiss Golden Messenger), and find Shapiro and Cook crafting simmering, sun-lit, and pastoral iterations on Americana and soul. But where “Worthy” offered an ambling slow burn, “I Just Wanna Dance With You” is bright and immediate, colored by breezy acoustic tones, steady percussion, and bursts of banjo from Cook and fiddle courtesy of Riley Calcagno (Viv & Riley). The warm intimacy of the track’s beginning soon gives way to a backwoods singalong, complete with crooned vocal harmonies and handclaps, yet Shapiro never loses track of the easygoing lovestruck charm at the track’s core.

As Shapiro explains, “I Just Wanna Dance With You” was “inspired by the joyful moments of domestic sweetness during the Covid lockdown…It’s a love song about trying to get her attention from the other room.”

Check out the song below. The Worthy EP is out everywhere on February 7th.



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