Thursday, April 15, 2010

Concrete Blonde Reissue Bloodletting / Tour

Concrete Blonde's classic album Bloodletting is being reissued with rare and unreleased bonus tracks on July 13.

Bloodletting reissue track list:

1. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
2. The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden
3. Caroline
4. Darkening Of The Light
5. I Don’t Need A Hero
6. Days And Days
7. The Beast
8. Lullabye
9. Joey
10. Tomorrow, Wendy
11. I Want You [B-side of “Joey”] –BONUS TRACK
12. Little Wing [B-side of “Caroline” CD single] –BONUS TRACK
13. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) [French Extended Version] –BONUS TRACK
14. Roses Grow (Live) [B-side of “Caroline” CD single] –BONUS TRACK
15. The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden (Live) [B-side of “Caroline” CD single] –BONUS TRACK
16. Tomorrow, Wendy (Live) [B-side of “Caroline” CD single] –BONUS TRACK

Live:
June 8 – Boston, MA – Royal Boston
June 10 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
June 11 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
June 12 – Chicago, IL – The Vic
June 15 – Washington D.C. – 9:30 Club
June 16 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
June 18 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theatre
June 19 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
June 21 – Arvada, CO – Arvada Center
June 22 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
June 24 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market
June 26 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom
June 28 – Hollywood, CA – The Music Box

Trivia:
Concrete Blonde got their start when founding members Johnette Napolitano and James Mankey met working as backup for Leon Russell. They formed Dream 6 and signed with IRS Records, where labelmate Michael Stipe of R.E.M. suggested they change their name to Concrete Blonde.


Because record labels like EMI remain clueless and disallow embedding, here is something that isn't the video for "Joey" that might make you want to buy the album:


and "Bloodletting"

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