Lissie Announces “Road to RAGBRAI” Solo Tour – Teases New Song “Sun Keeps Risin’

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For the uninitiated, RAGBRAI is the “Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa.” Each year thousands of bicycle riders take a week at the end of July and ride across Iowa. This has been going on for 42 years in 2015. From Lissie’s website:

I’ve always wanted to do (RAGBRAI), so I will be doing the ride in the middle of the tour. Having grown up just across the river in Illinois, Iowa is a gorgeous state that I love! So to make it a reality I’ll be going back to my roots in more ways than one. I started in music playing acoustic guitar and singing from the heart, so it’s only fitting that I sing my way back to the heartland solo! I hope that you can all join me at a show leading up to, on the ride or at one of the gigs after.

So, she’s doing a run of dates with Tyler Lyle leading up to and following RAGBRAI. What we don’t know is if she might be busting out her guitar on the ride! Even if she doesn’t, these shows promise to be really special and intimate affairs.

Along with this announcement, she teased a new song titled “Sun Keeps Risin'” which is slated for her new album which is slated for January of 2016.

 

Here are the dates of the solo tour with links to where to get tickets.

July 11 – Los Angeles @ Troubadour (Sold Out)
July 12San Francisco @ The Chapel
July 14Salt Lake City @ Urban Lounge
July 15Denver @ Bluebird Theater
July 16Omaha @ The Waiting Room
July 27Chicago @ Lincoln Hall

August 4Milwaukee @ Turner Hall Ballroom
August 5Minneapolis @ Varsity Theater
August 7Nashville @ 3rd & Lindsley
August 8Atlanta @ Terminal West
August 9New Orleans @ The Parish at House of Blues
August 11Austin @ The Parish

New Tom Petty Song from Wildflowers Sessions Out – “Somewhere Under Heaven”

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With seemingly very little fanfare a new song was released by Tom Petty today. Titled “Somewhere Under Heaven” it is a song from his planned reissue of his 1994 album Wildflowers. He mentioned this reissue in an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine last year.

Petty has another release that could be out by Christmas: a two-disc reissue of his 1994 Top 10 solo album, Wildflowers, which includes 10 previously unreleased songs. Petty claims one of those finds, “Somewhere Under Heaven,” came as a surprise when he heard it again: “I did not remember writing it, recording it, anything.” He smiles. “And it was really good – uptempo but very unusual, in some strange time signature.”

“Somewhere Under Heaven” will also be on the soundtrack to the upcoming “Entourage” movie. But, you can listen to it on Spotify and download it from Amazon and iTunes as well.

I’m hopeful that this means the expanded Wallflowers possibly titled All The Rest as well as the reissue on vinyl are still on the radar.