New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ MPress Records) Album Marks Bold New Direction In Recording Career That Spans More Than Two Decades, available for pre-order now
U.S. Tour Dates Confirmed
"Wreck Me" Premieres at Bust.com
"When you think 'singer-songwriter," you think of an artist like Melissa Ferrick. Someone who can pick up an acoustic guitar and wow you with both their lyrical dexterity and instrumental prowess."- American Songwriter
"...an independent artist who's making meaningful music that carries with it the kind of gravitas and joy it did when Ferrick stepped up to the mic for the first time all those years ago."-PopMatters
On June 4, MPress Records will release "the truth is", the latest album from acclaimed singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Melissa Ferrick The alsbum is available for pre-order at https://bit.ly/MFTTIpreorder, and the track "Wreck Me," which also features
Paula Cole on guest vocals, is currently premiering on Bust Magazine's website at https://bit.ly/ZUwOel.
Recorded live with a full band and produced by Ferrick, mixed by Grammy Award winner
Trina Shoemaker (Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow) and engineered by Rafi Sofer (James Taylor, Juliana Hatfield), the album marks a creative departure for Ferrick in its collaborative approach and an evolution in the sound she has developed over the course of her expansive career and catalog. Ferrick and her band will tour the U.S. in support of the album's release. Please see below for confirmed tour dates.
Recorded in Boston, mixed in
Alabama and mastered in Nashville, the truth is bears the mark of its travels. "This album crosses a lot of borders," Ferrick says. "It's got a little bit of the Northeast, a bit of the South, and a bit of Nashville, too." The album features the talents of
Natalia Zukerman on vocals, lap steel and dobro, Matt Pynn (Lucinda Williams, Evan Dando) on pedal steel, Richard Gates (Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega) on bass, Ro Rowan (Bob Forrest, Tiffany) on cello and both Steve Scully (Howie Day, Juliana Hatfield) and Dave Brophy (Will Daily, Patty Larkin) on drums. Boston-based collaborators Anne Heaton and Rose Polenzani show up to sing backing harmonies, and fellow Berklee College alum
Paula Cole appears as guest vocalist with Ferrick on the album's first song, "Wreck Me."
As Ferrick's devoted fans will expect, "the truth is" explores personal, emotional territory, documenting the end of one relationship and the subsequent beginnings of another. Signed to Atlantic Records in the mid-'90s, Ferrick was part of a new wave of alt-rock females - including artists like Liz Phair, PJ
Harvey and college-mate Cole-who sang about womanhood with sharp, unchecked honesty.
Morrissey proved an early champion when he personally invited her to tour as his opening act, and Ferrick eventually went on to found her own label and release a string of albums and EPs (more than 16 to date) in which she played almost every instrument herself. She tours regularly and plays to packed houses across the U.S.
THE TRUTH IS TRACK LISTING:
1. wreck me (featuring Paula Cole)
2. everything you were<
3. pity song
4. overboard
5. the truth is
6. home
7. i don't want you to change
8. go easy on me
9. love ain't afraid
10. time to leave
11. take in all the plants
Confirmed Tour Dates
*additional dates to be announced
5/15/13 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair (feat. full band)
5/16/13 Portland, ME Port City
Music Hall (feat. full band)
5/17/13 Brooklyn, NY The Bell House (feat. full band)
5/18/13 Vienna, VA Jammin Java (feat. full band) **2 shows**
5/19/13 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live (feat. full band)
5/21/13 Baltimore, MD 8X10 (feat. full band)
5/22/13 Fairfield, CT Fairfield Theatre Company on Stage One (feat. full band)
5/23/13 Providence, RI Fete
Music Lounge (feat. full band)
5/25/13 Provincetown, MA Art House Theater (An Evening With Melissa Ferrick)
5/26/13 Provincetown, MA Art House Theater (An Evening With Melissa Ferrick)
6/8/13 New Port Richey, FL City of New Port Richey Public Library (feat. full band)
6/13/13 Los Angeles, CA Hotel Cafe (feat. full band)
6/14/13 Berkeley, CA Freight and Salvage (feat. full band)
6/28/13 Chicago, IL Back Lot Bash (feat. full band)
6/29/13 Toronto, ONT Toronto Pride (feat. full band)
7/5/13 Berwyn, IL Fitzgerald's (feat. trio)
7/6/13 Middleton, WI
National Women's
Music Festival (feat. trio)
7/13/13 Portsmouth, NH Prescott Park Arts Festival (feat. full band)
8/8/13 Hart, MI Michigan Womyn's
Music Festival (feat. full band)
10/4/13 Marblehead, MA Me & Thee Coffeehouse
10/5/13 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground
10/28/13 Tampa, FL Club Jaeb at the Straz Center
11/9/13 New Hope, PA New Hope Winery
For more information, please contact Chris Schimpf, Krista Williams or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000,
[email protected],
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