Noah Gundersen brings Rites of Spring back to Eddie’s Attic

The Washington-born songwriter plays Atlanta more than anywhere else, and Wednesday he’s back in Decatur’s 185-capacity listening room with his seventh album.

There are rooms where the crowd talks through the quiet songs, and then there is Eddie’s Attic, where a dropped fork can feel like a heckle. That is the room Noah Gundersen walks back into on Wednesday, Nov. 11, for a 9 p.m. show in Decatur. Tickets are $32 through DICE, and with a capacity of 185, this is about as close as you get to him without being in the van.

Gundersen isn’t from here. He was born in Olympia, Washington, grew up in Centralia, and left home at 18 to start playing venues around Seattle, according to his Wikipedia biography. But Atlanta has become something like a second home market: in our records he has played this market 16 times, more than any other. Few touring songwriters keep coming back to the same city at that rate unless the city keeps showing up for them.

This time he arrives with a new record in hand. Rites of Spring, his seventh studio album, came out May 22, 2026, with the title track out as a single back in February, per Wikipedia. It runs 11 tracks, according to GoOut’s artist page, and was produced by Andy D. Park, as the Waiting Room Records listing notes.

The backstory is the kind that fits a small room. Gundersen wrote the songs while recovering from a torn Achilles and going through a breakup, per the LPR event page for his fall New York date. Injury and heartbreak are well-worn songwriter fuel, but Gundersen has always been at his best when he lets the hurt stay plain instead of dressing it up, and a record built out of a season of being literally laid up suggests songs that had time to sit.

He’s been on this road a long time. His debut EP, *Brand New World*, arrived in 2008, and *Ledges* in 2014 was his first full-length, per Wikipedia. That makes this fall’s run, which included an Oct. 22 stop in New York at LPR, the work of someone nearly two decades into figuring out how to make a guitar and a voice fill a room.

Eddie’s Attic is the right place to hear that. The Decatur listening room is built for exactly this: songwriters, a hushed crowd, and sightlines that put you in the front row whether you want to be there or not. A 185-seat room on a Wednesday is no festival, and that’s the point. You hear the breath before the high note and the fret buzz on the quiet verse.

If you’ve seen Gundersen at a bigger venue, this is a different show. If you’ve never seen him, it’s the best introduction there is. Go early, order before the first song, and keep your phone in your pocket. The people around you came to listen.

Atlanta has become something like a second home market: he has played here 16 times, more than anywhere else in our records.

Wednesday night in Decatur, a guy from small-town Washington will play the songs he wrote when he couldn’t walk, to a room that keeps asking him back. Hard to think of a better reason to be out on a school night.

Sources: Noah Gundersen – Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Noah Gundersen – LPR event page (lpr.com); Noah Gundersen – GoOut (goout.net); Noah Gundersen – Rites of Spring (Waiting Room Records) (waitingroomrecords.com); Noah Gundersen at Eddie’s Attic – JamBase (jambase.com); Tickets – DICE (link.dice.fm)