NEW PATTI ALBUM COMING IN SEPTEMBER
Patti Scialfa took so long between her first and second albums -- 11 years -- that it became something of a running joke. Not so this time. Only three years after 23rd Street Lullaby, her third solo album has just been announced. Yep, her husband hasn't been the only one hard at work on a new record lately... and hers drops first: Play It As It Lays is due September 4 from Columbia.
On Play It as It Lays, Patti reteams with her 23rd Street co-producer Steve Jordan (pictured left with Patti), also adding Ron Aniello to the production team. She reunites key players from her 2004 band, now known as the Whack Brothers Rhythm Section (now that's how you name a band!): Jordan on drums, percussion, and acoustic guitar; Willie Weeks on bass; Cliff Carter on keyboards; Nils Lofgren on guitars, pedal steel, and dobro; and one Bruce Springsteen, on Hammond B3, acoustic and electric guitar, and harmonica. Other players on the record include fellow members of the Sessions Band: Soozie Tyrell, Jeremy Chatzky, Lisa Lowell, Cindy Mizelle, and Curtis King.
Patti wrote the album's ten tracks which, as described in today's press release, incorporate "elements of roots rock, folk, country, street corner doo-wop, girl groups and more into a sound and sensibility uniquely her own." The songs:
Looking for Elvis
Like Any Woman Would
Town Called Heartbreak
Play Around
Rainy Day Man
The Word
Bad For You
Run, Run, Run
Play It As It Lays
Black Adder
Patti is currently booked to perform on The Today Show and The Late Show with David Letterman on September 4, and The View on September 6. We'll keep you updated on any other shows and other promotional appearances as we know them.
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