Not only is she an award-winning artist with a nationwide fan base and 20+ years recording and touring under her belt, but early feedback on the record is that it's among the best of her career so far. The album marks somewhat of a departure for her stylistically and was recorded with a full band in Boston, mixed in Alabama, and mastered in Nashville. Some talented folks are involved in it, including Grammy winner Trina Shoemaker, Ravi Sofer, Natalia Zuckerman, Matt Pynn, Paula Cole...
Take a look and let me know if you need anything at all--would love to hear from you.
MELISSA FERRICK’S THE TRUTH IS SET FOR JUNE 4 RELEASE ON MPRESS RECORDS
ALBUM MARKS BOLD NEW DIRECTION IN RECORDING CAREER THAT SPANS MORE THAN TWO DECADES, AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW
“WRECK ME” PREMIERES AT BUST.COM // "PITY SONG" PREMIERES AT AMERICANSONGWRITER.COM
U.S. TOUR DATES CONFIRMED
“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 album is available for pre-order at
http://bit.ly/MFTTIpreorder, and the track “Wreck Me,” which also features Paula Cole on guest vocals, recently premiered on
Bust Magazine’s website at
http://bit.ly/ZUwOel.
American Songwriter just premiered the album's focus track "Pity Song"
http://bit.ly/124gHyL, which is currenly going for adds at radio and is one of the
Top 5 Most-Added at Americana Radio, Week of May 20.
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 Polenzanishow 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) on 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:
June 3 /// Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 2) /// New York, NY
June 6 /// Lizard Lounge /// Cambridge, MA
June 8 /// New Port Richey Public Library /// New Port Richey, FL
June 13 /// Hotel Café /// Los Angeles, CA
June 14 /// Freight & Salvage /// Berkeley, CA
June 28 /// Back Lot Bash /// Chicago, IL
June 29 /// Pride Toronto—Bud Light South Stage /// Toronto, ON
July 5 /// FitzGerald’s /// Berwyn, IL
July 6 /// National Women’s Music Festival /// Middletown, WI
July 13 /// Prescott Park Arts Festival /// Portsmouth, NH
July 19 /// The Wise Hall /// Vancouver, BC
July 20 /// Triple Door /// Seattle, WA
July 21 /// Doug Fir Lounge /// Portland, OR
August 8 & 9 /// Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival /// Hart, MI
September 3-5 /// Americana Song Academy /// Sisters OR
September 6 & 7 /// Sisters Folk Festival /// Sisters, OR
September 19 & 20 /// S.P.A.C.E. /// Evanston, IL
October 4 /// Me & Thee Coffeehouse /// Marblehead, MA
October 5 /// Higher Ground /// South Burlington, VT
October 6 /// The Capitol Center for the Arts /// Concord, NH
October 28 /// Club Jaeb at the Straz Center /// Tampa, FL
November 6 /// New Hope Winery /// New Hope, PA
November 10 /// The Spaceland Ballroom /// Hamden, CT
December 27 /// Club Passim /// Cambridge, MA
