JETHRO TULL “The Seven Decades” Summer/Fall 2023 U.S. Tour

 

Jethro Tull live, photo by Nick Harrison 

Legendary rock band JETHRO TULL has announced "The Seven Decades" tour. Led by Ian Anderson, the concert will feature a rich collection of the best-known JETHRO TULL repertoire from 1968 to date. Fans will recognize the key songs from the band’s rich heritage.  These are songs which put JETHRO TULL and Ian Anderson on the map during these seven decades. "The Seven Decades" tour will hit the U.S. from August through November, with stops in the Midwest (Chicago, Indianapolis, Dayton, Cincinnati, Northern Virginia), in California (San Diego, Los Angeles, Lincoln, Saratoga, Santa Rosa), and the Northeast (New Hampshire, Boston, Uncasville, New York City, Port Chester, Albany).

Tickets to all shows are now on sale. Visit jethrotull.com/tour-dates/ for ticket links to all shows.

JETHRO TULL’s  23rd studio album, "RökFlöte" is now out on all streaming media and in stores via Inside Out Music. Following 2022's "The Zealot Gene," the group's first LP in two decades, Anderson and his bandmates’ new 12-track record is based on the characters and roles of some of the principal gods of old Norse mythology, and exploring the "RökFlöte" — rock flute — which JETHRO TULL has made iconic.

With more than 30 albums to their credit and sales totaling more than 60 million, JETHRO TULL are one of the most successful rock bands of all-time with a catalog that contains classics that still resonate today. Led by Anderson, TULL continue to tour throughout the world, entertaining audiences of all ages.

The band consists of:
Ian Anderson - Concert and Alto flutes, Flute d'Amour, Irish whistle and vocals
David Goodier - Bass
John O'Hara - Piano, keyboards and Hammond Organ
Scott Hammond - Drums
Joe Parrish-James - Electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin

Tour dates:
Aug. 18 - Ravinia Festival - Highland Park, IL
Aug. 19 - TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park - Indianapolis, IN
Aug. 20 - Rose Music Center at The Heights - Huber Heights, OH
Aug. 22 - PNC Pavilion at Riverbend - Cincinnati, OH
Aug. 24 - Wolf Trap - Vienna, VA
Sep. 26 - The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park - San Diego, CA
Sep. 27 - Greek Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
Sep. 29 - Thunder Valley Casino Resort – The Venue at Thunder Valley - Lincoln, CA
Sep. 30 - The Mountain Winery - Saratoga, CA
Oct. 01 - Luther Burbank Center for the Arts – Ruth Finley Person Theater - Santa Rosa, CA
Oct. 27 - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom - Hampton, NH
Oct. 28 - MGM Music Hall at Fenway - Boston, MA
Oct. 29 – Mohegan Sun Arena - Uncasville, CT
Nov. 01 - Beacon Theatre - New York, NY
Nov. 02 - The Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY
Nov. 04 - Palace Theatre - Albany, NY

Robin Lane’s “Dirt Road to Heaven” Re-released with Added Song “All I’ll Ever Need”

March 3, Red on Red Records is re-released a re-mastered version of Robin Lane’s current and critically-acclaimed album DIRT ROAD TO HEAVEN with a recent favorite song of Robin’s.  “All I’ll Ever Need,” which found airplay on radio and YouTube is a favorite of Robin’s label, Boston-based company Red on Red Records.

The label's President Justine Covault’s decision to re-release the album is a way of giving “All I’ll Ever Need” an opportunity to be heard by more people. “When I first started working with Robin, I focused on what I could do to best support her, and I chose ‘All I'll Ever Need’ as a standalone single, because I knew the Red on Red audience would love it.  What I didn't know then was what Robin was about to teach me. She opened my ears to her songs -- songs that matter, songs that inspire, songs that soar and then dig a trench in your heart. So I fell in love with, and then picked up, the entire ‘Dirt Road to Heaven’ album, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made.”

Americana Highways’ Jeff Burger writes about “Dirt Road To Heaven,” “This 11-track latest one, most of which Lane wrote or co-wrote, offers a lot to like. Assisted by a crew that adds accordion, banjo, drums, lap steel, backup vocals, and more, Lane flirts (not for the first time) with country music on songs like “Faded Leaves,” showcases gorgeous vocal work on numbers like “Hurricane Watch,” and turns up the heat on tracks like the sultry “Hunny Dummer,” where she sings, “Turn off the phone, turn on George Jones, and let me show you how I feel.”  The Alternate Root’s Lee Zimmerman cheers, “Consider this dirt road a potential path to achieving that well-deserved greater acclaim for Robin Lane.”  

CBS TV/Sirius XM’s Bill Flanagan told Robin, “I think it might be the best record you’ve ever made.”

Boston Herald’s Brett Milano wrote, “she’s still the musical friend who’ll join you walking that dirt road.” He loves the album’s inspirational range of music: “Country on ‘Rodeo Clown,’ rockabilly on ‘Hard Life,’ full-throttle Byrds on ‘Sunshine Blue Skies.’ There’s also a couple of shiver-inducing ballads that show her ever-increasing warmth and range….(and) a few helpings of sly humor (see ‘Last Cute Minute’)."

 

Digital Streaming Link:  robinlane.hearnow.com

“All I’ll Ever Need” music video:

https://redonredrobinlane.bandcamp.com/album/dirt-road-to-heaven

The album is also on sale on Robin’s website: www.therobinlane.com/shop

  

Robin Lane “Dirt Road To Heaven”

“No one forgets the first time they heard Robin Lane; it's like losing your virginity,” writes Peter Felcknor, a long-time superfan, upon hearing Robin’s new album, Dirt Road to Heaven, out today-August 12, on Red on Red Records. The album’s theme, writes Boston Herald’s Brett Milano “is she’s still the musical friend who’ll join you walking that dirt road.” He loves the album’s inspirational range of music: “Country on ‘Rodeo Clown,’ rockabilly on ‘Hard Life,’ full-throttle Byrds on ‘Sunshine Blue Skies.’ There’s also a couple of shiver-inducing ballads that show her ever-increasing warmth and range….(and) a few helpings of sly humor (see ‘Last Cute Minute’)."

CBS TV/Sirius XM’s Bill Flanagan told Robin, “I think it might be the best record you’ve ever made.”

“All I’ll Ever Need” is the album’s music video. It features couples being happy together while Robin sings in the recording studio with her band and in New England’s beautiful outdoors.  

Dirt Road To Heaven is a collection of Americana music that sounds great alongside artists such as Brandi Carlile and Joan Baez. Robin’s motto of “Music is my healing tool” has paved her uniquely uplifting “dirt road to heaven” process from the get-go. Her journey has become even more effective and powerful, locally and globally, this century.       

Peter is one of many fans that have been into Robin Lane since “we saw this petite blonde live in a NYC punk club” when she was touring behind her rock EP, When Things Go Wrong in the early 1980s. 

The daughter of Ken Lane, who wrote songs for Dean Martin, and a mother who was a fashion model, Robin grew up in Los Angeles. She was part of the music community in the late 1960s. In Laurel Canyon she collaborated with members of Crazy Horse and sang with Neil Young on "Round and Round (It Won't Be Long)" on his album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.    

After a two-year marriage with future Police guitarist Andy Summers, in the late 1970s Robin left LA behind, and moved to Boston. She formed Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, integrating punk and new wave with West Coast folk, and East Coast rock. Their three albums for Warner Bros. were Robin Lane and the Chartbusters (1980), the live EP 5 Live, and Imitation Life (1981). The rock radio-charting song “When Things Go Wrong” became the 11th music video played on MTV on its first broadcast day in 1981.   

In 1985, Robin started performing solo, at European festivals and opening for artists including Warren Zevon, John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Tim Finn, Dave Mason, Steve Earle, T-Bone Burnett, Richard Thompson.  She accepted the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Female Vocalist in 1988. In 1990 Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) recorded Robin's song "Wishing on Telstar" for her first solo album, When You're a Boy. Robin also sang on the album.

In 1996, Robin released the album Cat Bird Seat, which showed her evolution into a subdued and (at times) “country-fied” sound that her super fan describes as “the angry machine that was the Chartbusters.”     

After a 2003 reunion Chartbusters’ album, Piece of Mind, Robin released solo albums: Out of the Ashes (2011), The Sweet Candy Collection (2011), and A Woman’s Voice (2013). In 2010 Robin founded Songbird Sings, a Shelburne Falls, MA-based organization dedicated to helping people work through and recover from traumatic experiences by writing and recording their own songs.      

In late 2021, Robin signed with Boston’s indie label Red on Red Records, which supports strong women creators. Label owner Justine Covault is honored Robin’s with the roster, “Robin writes unflinchingly honest songs that reflect the light and the dark in the world. Her voice is distinctive and gorgeous. When she plays and sings, the audience is spellbound.”

 

The Legends of Boston At The Cutting Room, April 27

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Legends Of Boston, April 27, NYC

Magic Dick & Shun Ng and Johnny A. will perform at the Cutting Room, April 27 at 7:30 PM.

The Cutting Room is at 44 E. 32nd Street, in New York City.

Admission is $25 in advance/$30 day of show (with a minimum food/drink of $20 per person).

The ticket buy link is https://tickets.thecuttingroomnyc.com/event/1655553-legends-boston-johnny-new-york/.

Facebook event page is: https://www.facebook.com/events/190515521567684/.

The venue phone is 212-691-1900.

The website is http://thecuttingroomnyc.com.

MAGIC DICK & SHUN NG

The soulful blues rocking duo of Magic Dick (the legendary harmonica player for Boston's legendary J. Geils Band) and guitarist/vocal sensation Shun Ng EP is called ABOUT TIME.

Since 1969, Magic Dick has toured the world playing and blowing away clubs and stadiums with the J. Geils Band. But he heard Shun Ng’s album, FUNKY THUMB STUFF, and wanted a musical collaboration with the upcoming musician, “Shun’s sound simply made me feel very alive and induced in me a synchronous alignment of musical DNA as if it was his intention as well as mine all along!”  

Shun Ng is an award-winning fingerstyle guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter, known for his unique style which infuses elements of Soul, Funk, Blues and Jazz. He’s won praise from legendary producer, Quincy Jones, who says, “I was simply blown away by both his soul and his science – his creativity and his uniqueness is astounding.” Shun is a recipient of the Songwriters Hall of Fame 'Holly Prize' and winner of 'International Artist of The Year'  at the Boston Music Awards.  

Shun explains the goal was to “make music in a way that no one had quite done before while remaining grounded in our roots. Magic Dick brings a powerhouse attack with ferocious precision and a killer groove to this duo. I have great respect for him, he has seemingly done it all, but is still constantly trying to push the boundaries of music and chase the best in himself, a true artist. To be working with a true Boston legend is a real privilege."

JOHNNY A. 

"Just Me...and My Guitars" is what Johnny A. calls his solo concert.  For nearly 20 years Johnny A. has travelled the world effortlessly gliding through, bending and blending, musical genres to deliver his own unique style of instrumental guitar music.

To quote the LONDON FREE PRESS (Johnny A. is...) "a musician who resists easy categorization and that's always cool by us." JAZZIZ Magazine perfectly stated, "Johnny A. has eclectic musical vision and the skills to realize it... A.’s music is both accessible and sophisticated." 

Never content with complacency, and always up for a challenge, Johnny again takes an adventurous musical left turn to present his distinct, instrumental guitar approach for the very first time in a completely “solo” intimate atmosphere. 

With strong emphasis on melody and arrangements from the British songbook of the 1960s, he brings his fluid guitar style to select venues all across the United States. 

The evening promises to be a very special "living room experience" with some of Johnny's favorite songs and stories all of which have molded him into the musician and person he is today. 

It's no wonder that Gibson and Epiphone guitars have honored him with not one but three signature model guitars designed to his specifications.  Don't miss this rare and unique opportunity to see Grammy-Nominated, Boston Music Hall of Fame Inductee and one of America's finest instrumental guitarists, Johnny A., up close and personal. 

  

https://www.facebook.com/magicdickshun/

http://johnnya.com

Elliott Murphy in the States this December

Elliott Murphy is coming back to the New York City area this December. A few dates are booked already.

December 4 The Living Room New York, NY
December 5 Stephen Talkhouse Amagansett, NY w/ Jann Klose
December 6 University Cafe Stony Brook, NY
December 9 Johnny D's Boston, NY w/Jann Klose
December 10 The Watercolor Cafe Larchmont, NY w/Jann Klose
December 11 The Turning Point Piermont, NY

http://www.elliottmurphy.com