NASHVILLE |DATE: AUGUST 15, 2013
FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/MARCEE RONDAN
DAVE STEWART’S
NEW ALBUM ‘LUCKY NUMBERS’
DUE OUT
SEPTEMBER 30
VIA KOBALT LABEL SERVICES
ALBUM’S FIRST SINGLE
“EVERY SINGLE NIGHT”
ARRIVED AT RADIO
AUGUST 13
Multi-talented, renaissance rock ‘n’ roller DAVE STEWART returns September 30 with his solo album LUCKY NUMBERSvia Kobalt Label Services (his first for the label). The album’s first single “Every Single Night” featuring guest vocalistMartina McBride goes to radio August 13. A lyric video for “Every Single Night” will be released Monday, August 19, with a groundbreaking video to follow, details of which will be announced in the coming weeks.
LUCKY NUMBERS is the third album in three years for the self-declared The Ringmaster General after last year’s release of the same name and 2011’s The Blackbird Diaries. For LUCKY NUMBERS, the singer, songwriter and guitarist assembled the same team of Nashville’s finest that were on the previous two, though instead of working in co-producer/engineer John McBride’s Nashville studio, STEWART shifted the recording sessions to a boat in theSouth Pacific.
“I wanted to do something a little different this time, so I invited the band to join me on an adventure to the South Pacific,” says STEWART, who also co-produced the album. “Where we could record with nobody else around, floating around on the sea. It was like parachuting into Oz. We were fish out of water. We were out 12 days, but we were actually only sober enough to record for three or four.”
Like the previous two albums, LUCKY NUMBERS combines STEWART’s ‘60s British rock sensibilities growing up in the northeast of England with the veteran Nashville country musicians’ southern blues. Players on LUCKY NUMBERSinclude guitarist Tom Bukovac, drummer Chad Cromwell, bassist Michael Rhodes, pianist Mike Rojas, pedal steel guitarist Dan Dugmore joined by multi-instrumentalist Kieran Kiely, who played accordion, flute and, most notably, the Irish bodhrán drum that can be heard in the opening notes of the first single, “Every Single Night.” The list of guest stars includes singers Martina McBride (“Every Single Night”), Karen Elson (“Nashville Snow”), Aussie pop divaVanessa Amorosi (“What’s Wrong With Me”), Broadway star Laura Michelle Kelly and violinist Ann Marie Calhoun(the soaring cinematic set-piece, “You and I”) and a gospel choir headed by Lynn Mabry (“Drugs Taught Me a Lesson,” “What’s Wrong With Me”).
“The two worlds collide in the most beautiful way,” says STEWART. “I’m singing one thing in my mind, and they’re playing something completely different, but it works.”
The LUCKY NUMBERS track listing is as follows:
Every Single Night
Drugs Taught Me A Lesson
How To Ruin A Romance
What’s Wrong With Me
Satellite
Why Can’t We Be Friends
You and I
Nashville Snow
Never Met A Woman Like You
One Step Too Far
Lucky Numbers
Praise for DAVE STEWART’s 2012 album
THE RINGMASTER GENERAL:
“…a terrific songwriter, guitarist and producer and surrounds himself with great players and vocalists such as Alison Krauss, Joss Stone, Jessie Baylin and Diane Birch. Stewart reveals just enough of the love-perplexed man behind the curtain to keep us entranced.”
–Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY, September 4, 2012
“A love letter to American roots music, it is steeped in blues, folk and country…”
–AdrianThrills, DAILY MAIL (U.K.), August 9, 2012
“Both albums [including The Blackbird Diaries] fuse country, rock, blues, bluegrass and R&B, and the results are quirky, soul-stirring and thoroughly engrossing.”
–Joe Bosso, MUSICRADAR.COM, August 13, 2012
“…a record bursting with passion, personality and variety…. Dave Stewart, both ringmaster and general, takes a powerful bow.”
—MXDWN.COM, September 10th, 2012
About DAVE STEWART:
“An explosive musician, deft guitar player, innately recognizes the genius in other people and puts it into play without being manipulative.” – Bob Dylan
“Jack of All Trades Master of All of Them” – The Sunday Times
“He’s the musician’s musician.” – Rolling Stone
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