Tonight Tracy Bonham will perform "Big Red Heart", the lead single from her new record, Masts Of Manhatta, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
The album will be released July 13, 2010 by Engine Room Recordings and Bonham will celebrate with a show at Joe's Pub in New York City (July 13th), the first stop on her upcoming headlining tour.
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The New York Times called Masts Of Manhatta a "rewarding album, easily the most personal of Ms. Bonham's career" in a feature that ran July 11th.
Rolling Stone hailed it as "a gorgeous celebration of adult love. Manhatta has a pastoral, jazzy pulse and is full of crafty details - the 'Superfly' bass line driving 'Big Red Heart,' or the way she sings, 'You make my heart go/Like Gogol Bordello.' Whether she's puzzling out marriage or making out in an AMC Hornet, Bonham has definitely hit her groove."
Mother Jones recently singled out the track "Your Night Is Wide Open" as one of "Four Songs You Won't Want to Miss," noting: "Bonham blends her elegant violin and soothing voice on this breathtaking love song..."
Masts of Manhatta - which takes its title from a Walt Whitman poem - was produced by Bonham and mixed by Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Los Lobos, Lisa Germano). It features the Brooklyn-based Smokey's Roundup, a trio led by guitarist Smokey Hormel (Tom Waits, Beck, Norah Jones), as the backing band.
A native of Eugene, Oregon, Bonham began singing at age five, playing the violin at nine and piano at age 14. After studying violin performance at the University of Southern California and jazz vocals at Berklee College of Music, she started her own band and began writing songs. Her 1996 major label debut, The Burdens of Being Upright (Island) with the hit single "Mother Mother" was certified Gold and led to a pair of GRAMMY® nominations (Best Female Vocalist and Best Alternative Rock Performance). Down Here followed in 2000 and Blink the Brightest was released in 2005 to widespread critical acclaim.
She's toured extensively and has appeared on numerous television shows, including "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," among others.
Tracy has also released two EPs and appeared as guest vocalist/violinist with artists such as Blue Man Group, Juliana Hatfield, Ron Sexsmith, Aerosmith, Wayfaring Strangers, Latin Playboys, NoBlues from the Netherlands, Soulwax from Belgium, Mark Oliver Everet of The Eels, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.
Tracy Bonham 2010 tour dates:
(Dates and information subject to change.)
July 2010
7/13 New York, NY Joe's Pub
August 2010
8/6 Woodstock, NY Bearsville Theater
8/9 Vienna, VA Jammin Java
8/10 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe (Downstairs)
8/11 Portland, ME Venue
8/12 Cambridge, MA Middle East
8/13 New York, NY 92 Y Tribeca
8/14 Bordentown, NJ The Record Collector
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