{"id":3947,"date":"2014-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/15\/original-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-jeremy-spencer-announces-2014-us-tour-a-new-release-coventry-blue\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T00:00:00","slug":"original-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-jeremy-spencer-announces-2014-us-tour-a-new-release-coventry-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/01\/15\/original-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-jeremy-spencer-announces-2014-us-tour-a-new-release-coventry-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Jeremy Spencer Announces 2014 US Tour & New Release ‘Coventry Blue’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Spencer\u2019s fans in the US have long been waiting for his return.\u00a0In fact, except for a few brief US appearances (in 2006 and 2010), 43 years have passed since Jeremy last toured the US (with Fleetwood Mac in 1971). Jeremy announced today that he is scheduled to tour the US in February and March of 2014, initially booking venues in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy has launched a Kickstarter Campaign offering advance premiums that will extend his tour to other cities in the US and fund the new CD. \u00a0Kickstarter supporters will be eligible to receive pre-release downloads of \u201cCoventry Blue\u201d, autographed CDs or LPs, original artwork or private concerts. There will also be an exclusive 2014 Tour Club that will provide exclusive video and audio live updates from the tour. <\/div>\n
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Kickstarter URL:<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/jeremyspencer\/jeremy-spencer-2014-tour-and-new-album-coventry-bl<\/a><\/div>\n
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Jeremy Spencer is renowned as a consummate slide guitar player with the years only enhancing his subtlety and taste. He still is the foremost Elmore James stylist alive – bar none. Jeremy can and does tear it up, retaining his verve, passion and devotion to the blues, but now he brings a cultivated maturity, assured conviction and compositional purpose that are truly sublime. His songs come via his intimate journey from the spiritual core of his heart and connect profoundly with listeners. The original Fleetwood Mac were Britain’s most authentic blues band during the sixties boom before morphing into mega-million selling pop celebrity. Their beloved alliance remains an historic testament to the era’s meeting of generations, melding of continents and shared musical devotion.<\/div>\n
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This tour will afford Jeremy the opportunity to display his many facets with a wider evolved guitar pallet as displayed on Bend. \u00a0At last he will deliver live on the record with its haunting melodies and exquisite guitar harmonies as well as select mighty Mac blues and rock n’ roll in his inimitable style. Expect his alternatively dirty and precise Elmore James slide stings; he’ll delve deep into blues nuggets that he discerningly curates and revitalize the primordial rock that he spot on mimicked famously and comically on stage with the Mac. Further treat is his expansive range of influences from Django Reinhardt to Marty Robbins to Mark Knopfler, fingering them effortlessly and seamlessly incorporating them into his own compositions as natural an easy fit as that of his beloved ceramic slides. Jeremy’s tour return to these shores at a creative pinnacle makes this a rare opportunity for fans.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBend in the Road\u201d has garnered rave reviews:<\/div>\n
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\u201cMaking a full-blown return now, the veteran released his fifth solo album, “Bend in the Road”, that shows the master hasn’t lost a bit of his youthfulness. Spencer is in his element on this collection of newer cuts and classics such as Otis Rush’s punchy, mesmeric “Homework” and Homesick James’ “Homesick”. They all feature that mythical slide, but Jeremy also plays a fine piano that breaks the album in the middle from classy to exceptional. But the genuine magic settles in after an ivories-lighted, deep “Merciful Sea”, marries widescreen anger to a pacifying sway in an alchemic manner which can move mountains and souls. And then there’s peaceful title song to elegantly sign it all off – and leave Jeremy’s fans wanting more. The road goes on, so may Spencer’s time be long.\u201d – Dmitry M. Epstein, \u201cLet it Rock\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cJeremy Spencer, the Fleetwood Mac alum, has found inspiration in working with new voices, old masters and his own muse \u2014 creating an album of intimate, handmade joys that moves confidently from blues to Americana to rootsy pop. Bend in the Road, recalls in many ways the Elmore James-focused contributions he made to Fleetwood Mac\u2019s first pair of Peter Green-led recordings in the late 1960s. \u00a0But there\u2019s much more than that going on here. Spencer, the roving gypsy heart of this project, finds inspiration everywhere \u2014 switching to keyboards on tracks like the majestically restrained \u201cMerciful Sea\u201d and James\u2019 sizzling \u201cCry for Me Baby,\u201d while uncovering inspirational wellsprings that reside far beyond the iconic Delta cottonfields and shotgun shacks of traditional acoustic blues. In the end, this gives Bend in the River the feel of a career valedictory. It\u2019s gloriously hard to pin down \u2014 something personified in standout tracks like \u201cHomework,\u201d which finds Spencer howling like old rock and stinging like Otis Rush, all over a loose groove that would have been right at home on an Eric Clapton solo recording from the early 1970s. It\u2019s that kind of record. The very good kind.\u201d \u2013 Nick DeRiso, \u201cSomething Else Reviews\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cBend in the Road\u201d admirably demonstrates why Spencer\u2019s in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Impeccably picked notes are still the trademark of Spencer\u2019s guitar-picking, and it begins with the first cut, \u201cHomesick,\u201d a loping blues. Spencer\u2019s slidework on \u201cWhispering Fields,\u201d an instrumental, sounds like silk sliding on satin. No string screech, no missteps, just pure, clean \u00a0slidework, a maestro at his best. \u00a0Spencer\u2019s long absence from the public eye is our loss. Let\u2019s hope he\u2019s back to stay. \u00a0There\u2019s a certain serenity that pervades this album that goes beyond the eye of the beholder, and the twelfth cut, another instrumental, \u201cMerciful Sea,\u201d exemplifies it.\u201d – \u00a0Lou Novacheck, \u201cElmore Magazine\u201d<\/div>\n
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“Bend in the Road” finds Jeremy Spencer doing what he does best, delivering quality blues. It’s a great album filled with many exceptional cuts, once again assuring that Spencer will forever be remembered as one of the greats. And what’s best? He is far from done. Be ready for some more music to surface in time to come.\u201d – Mark Kadzielawa, \u201c69 Faces of Rock\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn following up \u201cPrecious Little,\u201d his notable 2006 comeback, Jeremy Spencer has crafted his fifth and finest solo release. Maybe \u201cPrecious Little\u201d was Spencer\u2019s way of getting his studio legs back after a nearly three-decade absence from recording. Or perhaps choosing to make \u201cBend in the Road\u201d a collaboration gave it that extra oomph. Then again, it could simply be \u2014 as he told The Oakland (Mich.) Press in January 2010 \u2014 that \u201cI\u2019ve got so much material \u2019cause I\u2019ve just been, like, dormant. I just turned 61, so you do kind of want to get it out while you can and show people what you\u2019ve got.\u201d Whatever the reason, \u201cBend\u201d is a startling achievement for the founding Fleetwood Mac slide guitarist.\u201d \u2013 Peter Hund, \u201cGood New Music\u201d<\/div>\n
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Jeremy Spencer tour dates:<\/div>\n
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Feb 12: Fingerprints Long Beach, CA – In Store<\/div>\n
Feb 13: Largo at the Coronet, Los Angeles, CA<\/div>\n
Feb 14: LeStats, San Diego, CA<\/div>\n
Feb 15: Westwood Music Workshop<\/div>\n
Feb 16: Soho, Santa Barbara, CA<\/div>\n
Feb 17: The Chapel, SF, CA<\/div>\n
Feb 19: Moe’s Alley, Santa Cruz, CA<\/div>\n
Feb 20: Minor’s Foundry, Nevada City, CA<\/div>\n
Feb 21: Palm’s Playhouse, Winters, CA<\/div>\n

Feb 22: Freight & Salvage Workshop, SF <\/p>\n

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Feb 28: Winchester Hall, Cleveland, OH<\/div>\n
Mar 1: Callahan’s, Detroit. MI<\/div>\n
Mar 2: The Ark, Ann Arbor. MI<\/div>\n
Mar 6: Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI<\/div>\n
Mar 7: Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago, IL<\/div>\n
Mar 8: Rosas Lounge, Chicago, IL<\/div>\n
Mar 9: Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL<\/div>\n
Mar 12: Love & War, Plano TX<\/div>\n
Mar 13: Yard Dog Gallery, Austin, TX<\/div>\n
Mar 20: Regatta Bar, Cambridge MA<\/div>\n
Mar 21: Black Eyed Sallys, Hartford, CT<\/div>\n
Mar 22: Passim Workshop<\/div>\n
Mar 22: Bearsville Theater, Woodstock NY<\/div>\n
Mar 23: Turning Point, Piermont NY<\/div>\n
Mar 24: BB Kings Blues Bar, NY<\/div>\n
Mar 25: Blues Alley, Washington, DC<\/div>\n
Mar 27: Sellersville Theater, Sellersville, PA<\/div>\n
Mar 28: Splatter Concerts, NJ<\/div>\n
Mar 30: Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, NY<\/div>\n
Mar 31: Iridium with Les Paul Trio, NYC<\/p>\n

Source: www.JeremySpencer.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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