ICONIC SINGER-SONGWRITER
YUSUF / CAT STEVENS
RETURNS WITH FIRST NEW ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS
‘TELL ’EM I’M GONE’
TO BE RELEASED OCT. 27 ON LEGACY RECORDINGS
* Album marks first in a new partnership with new label home*
*Yusuf to embark on first North American tour in over 35 years this December*
Sept.
15, 2014-- Legacy Recordings today announced that iconic
singer-songwriter and 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Yusuf /
Cat Stevens has joined the label’s storied musical family.
To
kick off this exciting new chapter in Yusuf’s career, Legacy Recordings
will release his first new studio album in five years, entitled Tell
‘Em I’m Gone, on October 27. Recorded across the globe, including Los
Angeles, Dubai, Brussels, and London, the album features 10 brand-new
studio recordings, including five original tracks and five
carefully-chosen cover songs. Tell ’Em I’m Gone features musical
contributions from Richard Thompson, blues harmonica legend Charlie
Musselwhite, singer-songwriter Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Tuareg group
Tinariwen, and guitarist Matt Sweeney. The album was produced by Yusuf
and Rick Rubin and was mixed by Yusuf and Paul Samwell-Smith.
The
worldwide premiere of “Dying To Live,” the first single from Tell ‘Em
I’m Gone is available now at RollingStone.com here:
http://smarturl.it/dyingtolive
This new relationship with
Legacy Recordings will include brand new recording projects, existing
catalog titles, previously unreleased live material, and a treasure
trove of audio and video from Yusuf/Cat Steven’s personal archives. The
new album, Tell ‘Em I’m Gone is the first piece of a larger
relationship that will continue over the coming years.
Yusuf/
Cat Stevens also announced that he will embark on his first North
American tour in over 35 years, giving fans in select cities the
opportunity to hear his remarkable catalog and superb new songs
live, many for the first time.
The Peace Train…Late Again tour will
kick off December 1 at Massey Hall in Toronto and conclude on December
14 at Nokia Theatre LA LIVE in Los Angeles, CA. The Peace Train…Late
Again North American tour dates include:
December 1 Toronto- Massey Hall
December 4 Boston- Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre
December 7 New York City- Beacon Theatre
December 9 Chicago- The Chicago Theatre
December 12 San Francisco- The Masonic
December14 Los Angeles - Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE
Tickets
for the general public begin going on sale on Saturday, September 27th
at 10:00am local time (please check your market for select timings).
Fans who pre-order Tell ‘Em I’m Gone on Amazon.com (starting now until
Sunday, September 21 at 11:59pm PST) will receive early access to
purchase tickets to the US tour dates. Please see specific details
below.
For complete ticket on sale information visit www.YusufCatStevens.com.
On
Tell ‘Em I’m Gone, Yusuf returns to the roots of his teenage musical
inspiration: American blues and R&B, using these genres to explore
humanity’s climb to freedom with songs that recall the spirit of his
earliest days as a nascent singer-songwriter in London. Each track on
the album revives the age-old themes of freedom and peace that have
marked more than four decades of Yusuf’s musical career. Stunning
originals like “I Was Raised In Babylon” and “Cat And The Dog Trap” plus
covers of blues-pop and American song standards (“Big Boss Man,” “You
Are My Sunshine”) and a moving version of Edgar Winter’s “Dying To
Live,” find Yusuf as strong of voice and as engaging a performer as
ever.
Tell ‘Em I’m Gone is available now for pre-order at physical and digital music retailers.
“Although
I was to venture through many lyrical terrains, melodious valleys and
cadences during my fifty-year musical and spiritual exploration, and
though many would agree that I have covered a lot of ground, there was
always one path I meant to take. Hidden in the background behind my
renowned troubadour persona lurked an R&B alter-self waiting to be
let free,” Yusuf says of the new album. “What’s powerful and profound,
to me, is the overall message which emerged, lyrically. It suddenly
stared me in the face: the innate struggle for Freedom! Isn’t that what
most human beings dream of? Music and the Blues particularly was a means
of escape for many chained to the destiny of the rich and powerful.”
"Yusuf
continues to make music that resonates in its beauty and universally
empowering themes,” says Adam Block, President, Sony Music’s Legacy
Recordings. “It's both humbling and thrilling to be given the
opportunity to have him become a member of the Legacy family. We look
forward to working together to create new platforms for Yusuf's future
recordings while celebrating his remarkable career with stories we'll
tell from the artist's personal archive.”
Having first
found fame as a teenage heartthrob singer in 1960s England, Cat Stevens
gained worldwide acclaim for his intimate and affecting works in the
1970s. His compositions “Wild World,” “Peace Train,” “Father and Son”
and “Morning Has Broken” remain staples of the folk genre. Following a
conversion to the Islamic faith in 1977, Stevens retired from the music
business to work with and support causes in education and humanitarian
relief. In 2006 Yusuf returned to pop music with the album An Other
Cup. Yusuf was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
March 2014.
‘TELL ’EM I’M GONE’ TRACK LIST
I Was Raised In Babylon (Yusuf)
Big Boss Man (Luther Dixon-Al Smith)
Dying To Live (Edgar Winter)
You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis-Charles Mitchell, arr. Yusuf)
Editing Floor Blues (Yusuf)
Cat And The Dog Trap (Yusuf)
Gold Digger (Yusuf)
The Devil Came From Kansas (Gary Brooker-Keith Reid)
Tell ‘Em I’m Gone (originally “Take This Hammer,” arr. Yusuf)
Doors (Yusuf)
MORE INFORMATION ON THE AMAZON.COM PRE-ORDER OFFER
While
supplies last, eligible fans who pre-order Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ new
album Tell ‘Em I’m Gone on MP3 or CD on or before 11:59 PM Pacific time
on September 21, 2014 from Amazon.com will receive a unique pre-sale
code good for early access to purchase up to two (2) tickets for
eligible concerts in his upcoming U.S. tour. Early access using the
pre-sale codes is available between Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at
12:00 PM local concert venue time and Thursday, September 25,
2014 at 10:00 PM local concert venue time. Please note concert tickets
and pre-sale codes are subject to availability and the presale code does
not guarantee tickets to the concert or price level of your choice.
Your pre-sale code will be emailed within 24 hours of your pre-order.
Limit 1 code per Amazon customer. For more information please visit:
http://www.yusufcatstevens.com/amazonoffer
Legacy Recordings:
Legacy
Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is home
to the world's foremost library of historically significant commercial
recordings, a peerless collection of works by the most important musical
artists of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Across a variety of
platforms, the label offers contemporary music fans access to thousands
of meticulously restored and remastered archival titles representing
virtually every musical genre including popular, rock, jazz, blues,
R&B, folk, country, gospel, Broadway musicals, movie soundtracks,
rap/hip-hop, world music, classical, comedy and more.
Founded
in 1990 by CBS Records (rebranded Sony Music in 1991), Legacy has
expanded on its original mission (preserving and reissuing back catalogs
of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated CBS labels) to provide
new and innovative avenues for artist and repertoire exposure including
Grammy winning curated retrospectives, social media campaigns, Oscar
winning soundtracks, new talent signings and groundbreaking campaigns
for established artists and catalog. Following the creation of Sony BMG
Music Entertainment in 2005, Legacy assumed responsibility for
recordings from the archives of the BMG family of labels (including RCA
Records, Arista, J Records, Jive, Profile, Silvertone, Sony BMG
Nashville and Windham Hill, as well as imprints including Bang!, CTI,
Mainstream, Monument, Ode, and others).
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