Baton Rouge blues-rock artist Jonathon “Boogie” Long has released his new single “Baby, I’m Through,” the latest preview from his upcoming album Courage In The Chaos, arriving March 6th via Myrical Media. The track lands with an accompanying music video, offering a candid glimpse into Boogie’s dynamic presence as a performer and storyteller.
Where the album’s lead single “A Fool Can See” introduced the project’s raw candor, “Baby, I’m Through” pushes deeper into emotional clarity. The song is a Baton Rouge blues confession – a letter written out loud. “There’s a point where you’re done,” he says. “You don’t whisper it to one person. You say it to everybody.” He sings like a man who has run out of euphemisms. The band leaves space for the words to breathe, then answers him with a lick that sounds like a door closing softly rather than a slam. It is resignation without defeat.
The accompanying video captures that spirit with an unvarnished, in-the-room feel. Shot in a bright studio with Boogie and his band, it mirrors the track’s directness – musicians locked into the moment, playing with heart, humor, and the looseness that comes from deep trust.
“Baby, I’m Through” is the second single from Courage In The Chaos, following “A Fool Can See,” which arrived last month with an official video and introduced listeners to the album’s lens: honesty without spectacle, precision without pretense. Together, the songs outline the emotional breadth of the record and the musical world Boogie has built across a lifetime.
Courage In The Chaos, out March 6th via Myrical Media, is the most honest portrait of Boogie to date. Built from a mix of fresh writing and songs he carried for years, the record works like a map of his musical life – Baton Rouge blues, Black gospel phrasing, jam-band flash when it serves the song, and a singer’s instinct for how a line should land. He made it with a close collaborator who encouraged him to “reach back to the roots” and finish ideas that never left him. The result feels immediate and lived-in at once.
At its core, Courage In The Chaos is a record about resilience and identity. It gathers pieces of Boogie’s past – songs, stories, and sounds carried across decades – and reshapes them into something present and unflinching. Through it all, his guitar and voice move together as one, a reminder that for Boogie, music has always been less about showing off and more about telling the truth.
Jonathon “Boogie” Long learned to make a guitar talk before he learned to make sense of the world. He grew up in Baton Rouge in a family where music wasn’t a hobby so much as a language. His parents sang gospel and led services. His grandfather preached fire-and-brimstone sermons, strumming simple chords and urging the boy at his side to “pick it.” By six, Jonathon was carrying a little guitar into churches, nursing homes, even prisons, picking “Amazing Grace” and watching rooms change temperature. “Music is a universal language,” he says. “It can make a mad person calm or a calm person crazy.” That was the lesson that stuck.
Lessons with his mentor Mark Wascom taught him how to find things by ear and trust feel over theory. Blues jams with Louisiana elders like Kenny Neal and Larry Garner gave him a second education. At eleven he had his first paying gig. At fourteen he walked into the principal’s office, said he was done, and went on the road with Henry Turner Jr. A teenage side-man in grown-man rooms, he learned to travel light, listen hard, and take care of himself.
The long apprenticeship made him fast, then it made him patient. Years with New Orleans soul titan Luther Kent recalibrated him. “I tried to be the hot-shot,” he admits, “then Luther’s band slapped me back to reality.” JazzFest sets with the big band taught him space and seasoning. In 2011, Guitar Center’s King of the Blues crown put a national spotlight on his fretwork. Bookers and managers followed. So did the usual mix of breaks and bruises.
Maybe that’s why Courage In The Chaos feels more like a homecoming than a pivot. It brings back the grit of his earliest Baton Rouge gigs, the seasoning of the Luther Kent years, the spark that had strangers on TikTok calling him the best guitarist on the app after fifteen seconds of improvisation. It also carries the steadiness of a man who has learned not to outspeed his own story. The guitar still screams when it needs to. More often, it sings.
Courage In The Chaos by Jonathon “Boogie” Long
1. A Fool Can See
2. Hell or High Water
3. Insanity
4. Empty Promises
5. The World is a Prison
6. Drinking Through
7. Can’t You See
8. Baby I’m Through
9. Tomorrow
10. Lipstick
11. Catfish Blues
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