After selling out her biggest UK concert at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall on Friday 4th May 2018, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, BETH HART and her band will return to the UK in February 2020 to tour her latest album War In My Mind. The album was released on Friday 27th September via Mascot Records/Provogue.
Beth is happy to announce that Kris Barras will be special guest on her February 2020 UK Tour, performing an acoustic set. Kris just finished his headline tour with his full band in support of his new album ‘Light It Up’. ‘Light It Up’ sees him at his most expressive yet, forcing himself out of his comfort zone. “I kinda forced myself to write songs a different way. The biggest difference for this album was that I didn’t pigeonhole myself in any way, I didn’t feel like I had to conform. I just sat down and wrote songs I wanted to write, with a sound I wanted to produce, not thinking about genre whatsoever.”
The 10-date tour will start at the Brighton Dome on Wednesday 5th February 2020 and includes dates in London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester.
With ‘War On My Mind’ Beth Hart is as real as it gets. In a music industry full of glossy production and airbrushed photoshoots, this is one artist who throws down her cards, shares her darkest secrets and invites you to join her for the ride. “More than any record I’ve ever made, I’m more open to being myself on these songs,” Beth explains. “I’ve come a long way with healing, and I’m comfortable with my darknesses, weirdnesses and things that I’m ashamed of – as well as all the things that make me feel good.”
Dome, Brighton – Wednesday 5 February
Eventim Apollo, London – Saturday 8 February
Symphony Hall, Birmingham – Sunday 9 February
St David’s Hall, Cardiff – Wednesday 12 February
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow – Friday 14 February
The Sage, Gateshead – Saturday 15 February
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester – Monday 17 February
City Hall, Sheffield – Thursday 20 February
The Pavilions, Plymouth – Saturday 22 February
O2 Guildhall, Southampton – Monday 24 February
BETH HART will be releasing her brand new studio album War In My Mind on 27th September via Provogue. Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Dave Matthews Band, Goo Goo Dolls) it sees Hart at the peak of her creative powers.
Today Beth has unleased a new track, Sugar Shack, listen to it here:
Beth Hart is as real as it gets. In a music industry full of glossy production and airbrushed photoshoots, this is one artist who throws down her cards, shares her darkest secrets and invites you to join her for the ride. “More than any record I’ve ever made, I’m more open to being myself on these songs,” Beth explains. “I’ve come a long way with healing, and I’m comfortable with my darknesses, weirdnesses and things that I’m ashamed of – as well as all the things that make me feel good.”
War In My Mind Tracklisting:
Bad Woman Blues
War In My Mind
Without Words In The Way
Let It Grow
Try A Little Harder
Sister Dear
Spanish Lullabies
Rub Me For Luck
Sugar Shack
Woman Down
Thankful
I Need A Hero
BETH HART will be releasing her brand new studio album War In My Mind on 27th September via Provogue. Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Dave Matthews Band, Goo Goo Dolls) it sees Hart at the peak of her creative powers.
Watch the video for Bad Woman Blues here:
Having followed the fascinating career of Beth Hart for a quarter-century, we’ve learned not to rule anything out – so long as it’s real. And now, with War In My Mind, this songwriter has made a record that bares her soul, wears her heart on her sleeve, and makes no apology for it. “Y’know,” she concludes, “when we did the photoshoot for this new album, it was the first time that I said, ‘No makeup and no airbrushing’. It was the first time that hearing my voice back didn’t make me sick. It was just neat to be 47 and not trying to be young, and competitive, and all of these things that I’ve always felt like I’m supposed to be. On this record, something told me, just let it be what it is, man. I think I’m starting to make a little headway, getting closer to the truth. And I might not know what the truth is… but I’m OK with that.”
War In My Mind Tracklisting:
Bad Woman Blues
War In My Mind
Without Words In The Way
Let It Grow
Try A Little Harder
Sister Dear
Spanish Lullabies
Rub Me For Luck
Sugar Shack
Woman Down
Thankful
I Need A Hero
BETH HART releases brand new studio album ”War In My Mind” on 27th September 2019 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group.
Watch the lyric video for War In My Mind here:
”War In My Mind” was produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Dave Matthews Band, Goo Goo Dolls) it sees Hart at the peak of her creative powers.
Beth Hart is as real as it gets. In a music industry full of glossy production and airbrushed photoshoots, this is one artist who throws down her cards, shares her darkest secrets and invites you to join her for the ride.
“More than any record I’ve ever made, I’m more open to being myself on these songs,” Beth explains. “I’ve come a long way with healing, and I’m comfortable with my darknesses, weirdnesses and things that I’m ashamed of – as well as all the things that make me feel good.”
The success of 2016’s Fire On The Floor album has garnered yet more critical acclaim, growing sales and sold-out shows at iconic venues from the Ryman Auditorium to the Royal Albert Hall (scene of last year’s triumphant live DVD). But as the singer reminds us, her life has always moved in cycles – “things get good then go to crap, get good then go to crap” – and it’s in these extremes that many of her best songs are born. “On this album, I’m even closer to vulnerability and openness about my life, about love, addiction, my bipolar, my dad, my sister…”
War In My Mind also wraps up a frustrating strand of unfinished business for Beth. Back in 2003, the heavyweight producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Dave Matthews Band, Goo Goo Dolls) was in the frame to mix the singer’s Leave The Light On album. “But the producer I was with at the time,” recounts Beth, “went ahead without my approval, turned the mix in to Rob – and he passed.” Fast-forward 15 years, and at a chance dinner party attended by Cavallo, fate intervened. The host encouraged Beth to play one of her new songs. “After I’d played them,” she remembers, “Rob came up and said, ‘You’ve grown a lot as a songwriter – and I want to record these songs with you’. And he turned out to be one of the coolest people that I’ve ever worked with.”
The sleeve shot of Beth pounding a piano below her own personal stormcloud is a fitting representation of new material that hits like a force of nature. It opens with the anti-love song Bad Woman Blues. “It’s about a woman who doesn’t have any interest whatsoever in being good, because she knows she’s not. But instead of hating herself for it, she’s very clear with the man. Like, ‘Baby, I’m an asshole and a frickin’ witch, but you are gonna have fun with me’.”
A stately piano ballad that swells to an epic anthem, the title track explores the addiction-troubled years when Beth felt she couldn’t go on, Let It Grow is so emotionally honest that its mere mention brings Beth to the brink of tears. “That song is just about having so much hope in the face of being hopeless.” The hedonistic groove of Try A Little Harder evokes the tumbling dice of the Vegas Strip. “It’s me jumping into my father’s body back in the ’70s when he was a high-roller,” she explains. “So I’m using his mania for being a baccarat player and my mania for making music. My father and I are so much alike, it’s ridiculous. That song makes me feel confident, happy, and more forgiving of my bipolar disorder.”
Having followed the fascinating career of Beth Hart for a quarter-century, we’ve learned not to rule anything out – so long as it’s real. And now, with War In My Mind, this songwriter has made a record that bares her soul, wears her heart on her sleeve, and makes no apology for it. “Y’know,” she concludes, “when we did the photoshoot for this new album, it was the first time that I said, ‘No makeup and no airbrushing’. It was the first time that hearing my voice back didn’t make me sick. It was just neat to be 47 and not trying to be young, and competitive, and all of these things that I’ve always felt like I’m supposed to be. On this record, something told me, just let it be what it is, man. I think I’m starting to make a little headway, getting closer to the truth. And I might not know what the truth is… but I’m OK with that.”
War In My Mind Tracklisting:
Bad Woman Blues
War In My Mind
Without Words In The Way
Let It Grow
Try A Little Harder
Sister Dear
Spanish Lullabies
Rub Me For Luck
Sugar Shack
Woman Down
Thankful
I Need A Hero
Full European Tour Dates 2019
20 Jul – Blues Peer, Peer, BELGIUM
21 Jul – Ramblin’ Man Fair, Maidstone, UK
24 Jul – Ladies Jazz Festival, Gdyina, POLAND
27 Jul – Green Escape Festival, Craponne-sur-arzon, FRANCE
28 Jul – Jazz In Marciac, Marciac, FRANCE
24 Nov – Aarhus Musikhuest, Arhus, DENMARK
26 Nov – Amager Bio, Copenhagen, DENMARK
29 Nov – AFAS Live – Solo , Amsterdam Zuidoost, NETHERLANDS
30 Nov – AFAS Live, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NETHERLANDS
02 Dec – Theatre Du Lemon, Geneve, SWITZERLAND
04 Dec – Volkshaus, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
06 Dec – Forum Karlin, Prague, SZECH REPUBLICH
08 Dec – National Palace of Arts, Kiev, UKRAINE
10 Dec – Arena Aemeec Sofia, Sofia, BULGARIA
GRAMMY nominated powerhouse vocalist BETH HART will release her live album ‘Beth Hart – Live At The Royal Albert Hall’, on Novermber 30th, 2018 via Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group. Today she unveils a new video from the album, “As Good As It Gets”, watch it below.
It takes a special talent to command that historic stage. But for the next two hours and 23 songs, Live From Royal Albert Hall will hold you spellbound, as the singer whispers and hollers her hopes, fears and deepest secrets in your ear, making this massive venue feel like a nose-to-nose club show. Darting between the microphone, piano, guitar and bass, with every movement captured by pin-sharp production values, it’s a show that traces her fascinating quarter-century career and reacts to the crowd’s changing energy. “I spent three months working on this setlist,” she tells us of her impulsive song choices. “But since I’ve been up here, I’ve changed the whole thing.”
Also watch the album trailer here:
Beth Hart makes one hell of an entrance. It’s May 4th, 2018, and the Royal Albert Hall is in blackout. As a sell-out crowd holds its breath in the darkness, a lone figure appears from the shadows and purrs the opening line of As Long As I Have A Song in that unmistakable burnt-honey voice (“Walk into the bar and shake off my coat…”). Taking her time, followed by the spotlight, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter picks her way between the aisles of this iconic London venue, delivering the languid jazz vocal entirely acapella, while shaking the outstretched hands of fans who can’t quite believe what they’re witnessing.
Given her special relationship with British fans – who have sent her albums rocketing up the charts in recent years – it’s no surprise to learn this wasn’t Hart’s first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall. But when the singer hit the stage in May to film her much-anticipated live DVD, she was plainly still awestruck to be headlining the institution that has hosted everyone from Cream to Led Zeppelin since its grand opening in 1871. “Can you believe this place?” she whoops, all wide eyes and tousled hair. “Unbelievable!”
Tracklisting:
1 As Long As I Have A Song
2 For My Friends
3 Lifts You Up
4 Close To My Fire
5 Bang Bang Boom Boom
6 Good As It Gets
7 Spirit Of God
8 Baddest Blues
9 Sister Heroine
10 Baby Shot Me Down
11 Waterfalls
12 Your Heart Is As Black As Night
13 Saved
14 The Ugliest House On The Block
15 Spiders In My Bed
16 Take It Easy On Me
17 Leave The Light On
18 Mama This One’s For You
19 My California
20 Trouble
21 Love Is A Lie
22 Picture In A Frame
23 Caught Out In The Rain
Bonus features:
Behind The Scenes Video
Beth Hart Interview
Available formats: CD/LP/DVD/Blue-ray/ and Digital
GRAMMY nominated powerhouse vocalist BETH HART has annouced a live album ‘Beth Hart – Live At The Royal Albert Hall’, set to be released on Novermber 30th, 2018 via Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group.
Watch the trailer here:
Beth Hart makes one hell of an entrance. It’s May 4th, 2018, and the Royal Albert Hall is in blackout. As a sell-out crowd holds its breath in the darkness, a lone figure appears from the shadows and purrs the opening line of As Long As I Have A Song in that unmistakable burnt-honey voice (“Walk into the bar and shake off my coat…”). Taking her time, followed by the spotlight, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter picks her way between the aisles of this iconic London venue, delivering the languid jazz vocal entirely acapella, while shaking the outstretched hands of fans who can’t quite believe what they’re witnessing.
Given her special relationship with British fans – who have sent her albums rocketing up the charts in recent years – it’s no surprise to learn this wasn’t Hart’s first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall. But when the singer hit the stage in May to film her much-anticipated live DVD, she was plainly still awestruck to be headlining the institution that has hosted everyone from Cream to Led Zeppelin since its grand opening in 1871. “Can you believe this place?” she whoops, all wide eyes and tousled hair. “Unbelievable!”
Tracklisting:
1 As Long As I Have A Song
2 For My Friends
3 Lifts You Up
4 Close To My Fire
5 Bang Bang Boom Boom
6 Good As It Gets
7 Spirit Of God
8 Baddest Blues
9 Sister Heroine
10 Baby Shot Me Down
11 Waterfalls
12 Your Heart Is As Black As Night
13 Saved
14 The Ugliest House On The Block
15 Spiders In My Bed
16 Take It Easy On Me
17 Leave The Light On
18 Mama This One’s For You
19 My California
20 Trouble
21 Love Is A Lie
22 Picture In A Frame
23 Caught Out In The Rain
Bonus features:
Behind The Scenes Video
Beth Hart Interview
Available formats: CD/LP/DVD/Blue-ray/ and Digital
“She has the kind of belting blues-rock voice that could bring down a light aircraft” – Classic Rock Magazine
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