As the creative mastermind of Night Beats, Texas-born Danny Lee Blackwell has spent the past 15 years exploring a nexus of vintage rhythm and blues, after-midnight soul and sun-scorched psychedelia.

Slated for an April 11, 2025 release through Suicide Squeeze, the “Behind The Green Door”/”Behind The Green Door (Rah John Version)” 7″ sees Blackwell presenting two markedly different renditions of “Behind The Green Door.” The A-side single “Behind The Green Door” is a slinky, late night psych soul/psych blues number that sounds like the soundtrack to dimly lit, smokey bars and dance halls filled with drunken revelers swaying to the beat in unison; sultry, late night drives in which you’re hypnotized by brush and trees and white lines on hot blacktop, lost in thought or memory.

“This song started as a lone star instrumental, something I pieced together in my studio in 2024,” Blackwell explains. “I imagined dusty roads and dimly lit dance halls. I wanted the guitars to shimmer like heat waves on an openroad. The rhythm to pull like footsteps across a wooden floor, soaked in smoke and neon. The lyrics followed, drawn from past and present—unwavering love, transcendence. The ‘green door’ is that threshold between devotion and disillusionment. The story lives not just in the words, but in the tones and textures, if uncovered.”

Directed by Blackwell, the moody and hallucinatory accompanying video for “Behind The Green Door” is heavily inspired by giallo films.