Produced by The Milk Carton Kids (Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan) and Eric Robinson, PROLOGUE contains nine new songs recorded live and mixed over four days at Marlay Studios in North Hollywood. PROLOGUE also includes an expansive and insightful foreword penned by Joe Henry. Read the foreword below.
A limited run of PROLOGUE will be printed on CD and vinyl for purchase. CD and vinyl copies of PROLOGUE are only available at live shows. PROLOGUE will be made available for free download from www.themilkcartonkids.com starting today. No email necessary.Starting in Phoenix, Arizona on August 10, 2011, The Milk Carton Kids will begin a tour of 46 shows across the United States and Canada in support of PROLOGUE. The first leg of dates (west coast) are included below.Foreword by Joe Henry
KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEMMany years ago, in a moment of professional crisis, I took up for a spell with The Jayhawks, an earnest band from Minnesota with whom I shared a tour, a dog-eared sensibility, and the lack of sufficient patronage that might've kept us from sleeping triple in the double beds of hard-lit motel rooms scattered throughout the land of the Great Lakes. Before meeting them, I had been given their most recent album by way of introduction; and I will confess here that upon first listen I became so seduced by the singular character that emerged from the songs, that I failed to register that there were actually two very different singers giving rise to him. Honest: I heard it all as if coming from one central figure who had a voice all his own, and that neither lead singer in the band could wholly claim or account for.IMPORTANT LINKS:
www.themilkcartonkids.com
www.facebook.com/themilkcartonkids
www.twitter.com/milkcartonkids
ON TOUR (Leg 1):
8/10 - Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room*
8/11 - San Diego, CA - Anthology*
8/13 - Los Angeles, CA - McCabe's
8/14 - Ventura, CA - Zoey's
8/16 - San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord*
8/18 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir*
8/19 - Seattle, WA - Rendezvous*
8/21 - Vancouver, BC, Canada - Railway Club**
8/23 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court**
8/24 - Logan, UT - Logan Arthouse
8/26 - Denver, CO - Soiled Dove
8/28 - Oklahoma City, OK - Blue Door**
8/30 - Austin, TX - Lambert's**
8/31 - Dallas, TX - Poor David's Pub**
* indicates shows with Andrew Belle
** indicates shows with Buddy
Leg 2 - Midwest - 9/7-9/17
*announced July 26th
Leg 3 - Midwest & Northeast - 9/27-10/6
*announced August 2nd
Leg 4 - East Coast & South - 10/13-10/28
*announced August 8th
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