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| Rock Band Train Headlining North American Tour With the band's critically-acclaimed new album, For Me, It's You, in stores now, the Grammy-winning multi-platinum rock band Train will headline a North American spring tour beginning in March. Train will return to the band's original San Francisco home turf to open the tour with a four-night stand (March 16, 17, 18, 19) at the historic Fillmore Theatre. Train will be making several pre-tour television appearances to help celebrate the release of For Me, It's You. Train is slated to appear on CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" on February 3; CBS's "The Early Show" and VH1's "Pepsi Smash Super Bowl Bash" special on February 4; ABC's "The View" on February 6; NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on March 6; and NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly" on March 14. Released to stores on Tuesday, January 31, For Me, It's You has already been heralded as "Train's strongest set of tracks to date..." by David Wild in a three star review of the album in Rolling Stone (February 9, 2006) and called "the group's richest collection yet..." by Elysa Gardner in a three-and-a-half star review in USA Today (January 31, 2006). These sentiments were echoed in Billboard (February 4, 2006) by Sven Philipp who wrote, "The band remains dedicated to anthemic rock songs with perfect pop hooks ... Big-hearted and giant-chorused, the songs are driven by Pat Monahan's smooth vocals -- still irony-free and as crisp as ever." For Me, It's You was recorded over the course of an intensive seven week period in Atlanta, Georgia with producer Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Rage Against The Machine, Trey Anastasio) at the dials. O'Brien first worked with Train in 2001 on the double-platinum watershed album, Drops Of Jupiter (which yielded the group two Grammy awards: Best Rock Song and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists) and later for 2003's masterful follow-up, My Private Nation (which earned Train two Grammy nominations for "Calling All Angels"). Train's incandescent live performance at the 2002 Grammy Awards ceremony connected with television audiences around the world and made a fan of Kanye West. When asked by Rolling Stone (for its Grammy preview in the February 9,2006 issue) to talk about Grammy performances that had really knocked him out, the hip-hop superstar responded, "I really liked when Train performed 'Drops of Jupiter.' That was the first time I'd heard that song, and I was like, 'Oh, sh*t, this is great!' The performance was that good." For Me, It's You is the first Train studio album to showcase the band's revamped and revitalized lineup -- on-board since 2003's My Private Nationtour -- featuring bassist Johnny Colt (originally from the Black Crowes), and Atlanta keyboardist Brandon Bush (John Mayer, Shawn Mullin) joining founding members Pat Monahan (vocals), Jimmy Stafford (guitars) and Scott Underwood (drums). With the group's new lineup working and playing as one on For Me, It's You, Train's new album emerges as the most fully realized and keenly focused of the band's career. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |