Grammy-Nominated Beth Hart to release new album ‘Better Than Home’
Release date: 13th April 2015
Label: Provogue/Mascot Label Group
“Guitarists go-to girl” Classic Rock Magazine
“Daring, brooding and angry” Guardian
“Astonishing” Express
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, Beth Hart is to release her captivating new album ‘Better Than Home’ on Provogue/Mascot Label Group on 13th April 2015.
Her incredible voice has already moved guitar legends Jeff Beck, Slash, Joe Bonamassa and Buddy Guy to perform with her on records and live; making her, in the words of Classic Rock Magazine “guitarists go-to girl and the UK have firmly taken Beth to their hearts after recent stirring headline performances at the Royal Albert Hall, The Roundhouse and Hampton Court Palace.
Some artists choose to sing the blues and some artists find that they have to live them as well; the latter couldn’t be more fitting for Beth Hart. A prodigious talent in her childhood she’s been through more than most; FBI raids, her father going to jail, her sister died of complications from AIDS, expelled from school, she ran away from home to Brooklyn aged 15 to fulfil her dream of performing live. Scouts picked her up and she won $100k on Star Search beating a young Beyonce to claim the prize. Her break-through single ‘LA Song (Out of this Town)’ later became a hit reaching #6 in the US. Pressure and a “dark period” hit; drink, drugs and an eating disorder followed – but performances on the Jay Leno and David Letterman shows grew her public profile. She spent the following years either on tour or in and out of rehab. In 2000 she confessed to being “nuts and struggling” and was diagnosed as Bipolar; doctors told her “you can’t handle this life in the music industry”, she was to prove otherwise.
Now on her 7th solo record, album collaborations with Joe Bonamassa, ‘Seesaw’ and ‘Don’t Explain’, made it to the top #1 and #3 of the Billboard Blues Albums Chart whilst ‘Live in Amsterdam’ entered the UK album chart at #18. Her greatest validation as one of the defining voices of our time came when her tribute (alongside Jeff Beck) to Buddy Guy on The Kennedy Center Honors Special received one of the only 2 standing ovations of the evening, led by President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. She has also worked with Guns ‘n Roses guitar maestro Slash on ‘Mother Maria’ from his album ‘Slash’.
This album isn’t about the problems Beth’s faced in her life. Instead, she’s choosing to find the good things that have been there all along: accepting and loving her parents for who they really are, appreciating a good husband, facing her fears head on and ultimately finding ways to heal and convert that positive energy into music that moves people. This is an incredibly moving, self written and composed record that’s going to reach people on a very personal level, because a one-of-a-kind artist found the perfect formula for exposing her very private inner voice and empowering it with her legendary outer voice.
UK Tour Dates 2015
Thurs 30 April Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Fri 1 May Colston Hall, BRISTOL
Sun 3 May Philharmonic Hall, LIVERPOOL
Weds 6 May O2 ABC, GLSAGOW
Fri 8 May Barbican, LONDON
Sat 9 May O2 Academy, LEEDS
Mon 11 May Corn Exchange, CAMBRIDGE
Weds 13 May Rock City, NOTTINGHAM
Track listing:
- Might As Well Smile
- Tell ‘Em To Hold On
- Tell Her You Belong To Me
- Trouble
- Better Than Home
- St. Teresa
- We’re Still Living In The City
- The Mood That I’m In
- Mechanical Heart
- As Long As I Have A Song
- Mama This One’s For You (bonus track on limited edition)
Links:
www.mascotlabelgroup.com
www.bethhart.com
Twitter: @BethHart
Facebook.com/officialbethhart
Youtube.com/BethHartMusic
