NASHVILLE |
DATE: SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
FROM: MARCEE RONDAN/BARI LIEBERMAN
JOHN WAITE
LAUNCHES FALL TOUR SEPTEMBER 10
IN SUPPORT
OF NEW SINGLE
“IF YOU EVER GET LONELY”
FROM HIS
‘ROUGH & TUMBLE’ CD
As his new single “If You Ever Get Lonely” arrives at radio, rock legend JOHN WAITE will hit the road for a fall tour kicking off September 10. An urgent mid-tempo pop rock song that is classic WAITE, “If You Ever Get Lonely” is the latest release from ROUGH & TUMBLE that was released earlier this year on Model Music Group/Fontana. The video for the song can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfUXx8FAgA. “If You Ever Get Lonely” is the follow up to the album’s first single, the title track which reached #1 on Classic Rock charts.
“If You Ever Get Lonely” was a song the Los Angeles-based British singer and songwriter worked on as part of a Nashville writing session in early 2010 with Matchbox Twenty's Kyle Cook. WAITE says, “It’s about “getting a phone call at night…perhaps the love of your life that you sort of lost track of dials you by mistake or maybe she’s out at a party and after a bottle of wine thinks she’ll just say hello.” He adds: “It’s one of those things where you pick up the phone and you stop breathing. It’s about distance. It’s about lives going on after they’ve been damaged.”
WAITE’s live performances will include songs from ROUGH & TUMBLE along with classic hits from his solo career and the two bands he fronted, The Babys and Bad English. His fall tour will take the Grammy-nominated artist through the holidays and includes a stop in New York City on November 16 at BB Kings.
WAITE’s live performances continue to draw praise from the media: “throughout his long solo career, Waite's clear, soaring vocals have always been his defining characteristic. His flawless ability to raise a whisper to a scream without losing any clarity or depth has always been what's made him one of the more distinctive and enduring vocalists in the rock genre,” (Creative Loafing, June 2011) and “Waite’s voice was clearly in fine form and the crowd was on their feet rocking out from note one,” (Examiner.com, AZ, August 2011).
ROUGH & TUMBLE features an eclectic mix of rock, pop and blues, including several collaborations with Matchbox 20’s Kyle Cook. Here are some critical quotes on ROUGH & TUMBLE:
“…rocking harder than he has through most of his solo career. Certainly, there are some slower and soulful moments–arriving fairly quickly in the album, too–but there’s grit to these ballads and they’re surrounded by some of Waite’s toughest rockers of recent vintage. As good as it is to hear this in the production, what makes ‘Rough & Tumble’ one of Waite’s better efforts is how the songs..are a solid set of rockers and ballads, a sturdy set of tunes that benefit considerably from their lean, lively production.”
–Allmusic.com, (Feb. 2011)
“The album shows a new and fresh side of the British singer/songwriter’s creative output…”
–Jambase.com (Dec 2010)
WAITE recorded five albums with The Babys before launching a solo career with Ignition, a record which spawned the MTV/rock radio staple, “Change.” The hit song laid the groundwork for one of the greatest pop/rock ballads of all time–“Missing You,” which has received a rare 6 million+ spins on radio airwaves and has been covered by many artists, including Tina Turner, Alison Krauss, Rod Stewart and Orianthi. WAITE continued his success with supergroup Bad English with a string of Billboard Top 40 hits, and the #1 position, once again, when the band topped the charts with “When I See You Smile.” WAITE’s fast-paced, no-holds-barred live album, In Real Time, released in 2010, was recorded with his super-charged three-piece band in tow. The record successfully captures the electrifying live performances WAITE is known for and fueled the approach to the hard-rocking L.A. sessions for ROUGH & TUMBLE.
The preliminary fall tour dates are as follows:
DATE CITY VENUE
Sat 9/10 Tipton, IN Tipton County Pork Festival
Fri 9/16 Corpus Christi, TX Brewster Street Ice House
Sat 9/17 Biloxi, MS IP Casino, Resort & Spa
Thu 10/13 Wilkes-Barre, PA Genetti Hotel Ballroom
Fri 11/4 Newport, KY Newport Syndicate
Wed 11/9 Reading, PA Reverb
Fri 11/11 New Hope, PA Havana New Hope
Sun 11/13 Shirley, MA Bull Run Restaurant
Wed 11/16 New York, NY BB Kings
Thu 11/17 Norfolk, CT Infinity Hall
Fri 11/18 Salisbury, MA Blue Ocean Music Hall
Sat 11/19 Fairfield, CT Stage One
Thu 12/1 Houston, TX Stereo Lie
Fri 12/2 Grapevine, TX Glass Cactus
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