Aaron Neville Performs 'Hard To Believe' on TODAY; Debuts 'Stompin' Ground' Lyric Video
By: Caryn Robbins Sep. 12, 2016
American music legend Aaron Neville performs "Hard To Believe" on the Today Show, watch his performance here http://smarturl.it/an_todayshow. Additionally, Neville debuts a lyric video for his track "Stompin' Ground," which he calls "a musical love letter to his city." Watch the video here:http://smarturl.it/an_stompinggroundvid
Neville was recently a guest on "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss his new album Apache, his 75th birthday celebration and the 50th anniversary of the recording of his first #1 single, "Tell It Like It Is." In addition, CBS recorded Neville's performances of "Be Your Man," "Stompin' Ground" and "Tell It Like It Is" at his Brooklyn Bowl show on August 4. Neville also performed his hit single "Be Your Man" on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
Apache features eleven original tracks and is the first album featuring songs predominantly written by Neville. The record was recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn and produced by multiple Grammy-winning artist and producer Krasno. Of the album Neville says, "It brought out another side of me; people were used to me doing a lot of ballads, but this is more gritty, and some of it has the New Orleans feel." He adds, "One song talks about my roots, 'Stompin' Ground.' It names a lot of real people that were in my life at different points in time. Another one, 'Orchid In The Storm,' was inspired by my wife Sarah; she's been my orchid in a storm, and still is. Another song is 'Heaven,' from a poem I wrote a while back. My inspirations come from real things in life and I have many more where these came from."
Neville and Krasno brought in elite musicians such as David Guy (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band), Cochemea Gastelum (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, The Budos Band), Ryan Zoidis (Lettuce, Soulive) and Eric Bloom (Lettuce) who contribute on the horn section throughout.
In January 2013, Neville released My True Story, which was co-produced by Blue Note Records president Don Was and Rolling Stone Keith Richards. The record earned Neville his first Top 10 album and highest-charting set of his five-decade career (No. 7 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart). Of the album, People says, "if ever there was an album that Aaron Neville was born to make, it's this collection of doo-wop classics," while Rolling Stone proclaimed, "Welcome back to the sweetest falsetto in human history" and called Neville "a true soul master at work."
Aaron Neville first rose to national prominence when his song "Tell It Like It Is" topped Billboard's R&B chart for five weeks in 1967 and quickly sold over one million copies. Neville again reached the top of the charts in 1989 with his album of duets with Linda Ronstadt, Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. The album featured the #1 Grammy-winning hits "Don't Know Much" and "All My Life." Neville earned wide acclaim for his hits "Everybody Plays the Fool," "Don't Take Away My Heaven" and "Hercules," among many others.
TRACK LIST
Be Your Man
All Of The Above
Orchid In The Storm
Stompin' Ground
Heaven
Hard To Believe
Ain't Gonna Judge You
I Wanna Love You
Sarah Ann
Make Your Momma Cry
Fragile World
AARON NEVILLE LIVE
September 16-Cincinnati, OH-Live at Ludlow Garage
September 17 - Schaumburg, IL - Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts
September 23-Durham, NC-Baldwin Auditorium
September 24-Wilmington, NC-CFCC Humanities & Fine Arts
Center
October 7-Brownfield, ME-Stone Mountain Arts
October 8-Lincolnville, ME-Cellardoor Winery
October 14 - Beverly, MA - The Cabot
October 15 - Plymouth, NH - Flying Monkey
October 22-Lake Tahoe, NV-MontBleu Resort & Casino
November 10 - McKinney, TX - McKinney Performing Arts Center
November 11-Austin, TX-Paramount Theatre
November 12--Spring, TX--Cypress Creek FACE
December 3-Bossier City, LA-Paradise Theatre
December 9-Baton Rouge, LA-L'Auberge Casino
December 10-Rancho Cucamonga, CA-Lewis Family Playhouse
December 11-Orange, CA-Musco Center
December 13-Redding, CA-Cascade Theatre
December 15 & 16-San Francisco, CA-SFJazz Center
December 17-Santa Rosa, CA-Luther Burbank Center
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