City & Colour Confirms Fall U.S. Tour

City and Colour-acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Dallas Green-will embark on an eight-week U.S. tour this fall, beginning in Northampton at the Calvin Theatre on September 13 and ending in Detroit at The Fillmore on November 8. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, April 12, with a pre-order available tomorrow (April 9) beginning at 12 p.m. (local time) at cityandcolour.com. During the pre-order phase, fans will have the option to choose a VIP Soundcheck Experience with their ticket (limited to 25 per show, in select cities only). The shows will feature a brand new touring band including Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, Dead Weather) on bass, Dante Schwebel (Hacienda, Dan Auerbach) on guitar, Doug MacGregor (Constantines) on drums and Matt Kelly on pedal steel guitar and keys. See below for complete tour details.

The tour is in celebration of City and Colour's highly anticipated new album, The Hurry and The Harm, out June 4 on Dine Alone Records. As a special thank you to the band's loyal live following, all tickets come with a digital download of the new album upon release date. Ticket purchasers will also receive an immediate digital download of the previously unreleased track "Northern Wind (Live from Molson Canadian Amphitheatre-Sept 2012)."

Available tomorrow as a pre-order on iTunes, The Hurry and The Harm is offered as a standard and deluxe version. Three bonus tracks (an original song, "The Way It Used To Be," as well as acoustic versions of "Of Space and Time" and "Harder Than Stone") will be a part of the deluxe version. All pre-orders will include an immediate download of the first single, "Thirst." Physical bundles of the album will also be made available in the coming weeks at cityandcolour.com. Released to critical acclaim, Paste Magazine calls "Thirst," "...shocking in its honesty as it depicts the gritty pain of heartbreak among bluesy yet dramatic beats." The official lyric video for the single is available to view here.

The Hurry and The Harm is Green's fourth release as City and Colour and follows 2011's Little Hell, which received widespread critical and commercial praise. The album debuted at #1 on Canada's Top 200 Chart, #28 in the U.S., #2 in Australia and top 40 in the U.K. and went on to be certified RIAA Platinum in Canada and RIAA Gold in Australia. Moreover, Spin magazine asserts, "Just as his piercing voice and languid tunes echo Neil Young's rustic side, a Neil-like tough-mindedness runs through Green's stark meditations," while NPR's "World Café" praises, "blends folk, country and blues to create a mood designed to commiserate and uplift."

Recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Blackbird Studios during the fall/winter of 2013, the new album was produced once again by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Death Cab for Cutie and The Mars Votla). In addition to Green, the album features Jack Lawrence on bass (The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather), Bo Koster on keys (My Morning Jacket), Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple) and James Gadson (Bill Withers, BB King) on drums and Spencer Cullum (Caitlin Rose) on pedal steel.

Of the new album, Green comments, "I don't have a lot of faith in myself, so it is hard for me to have a lot of faith in something I have created. But I've never been happier or prouder about something that I have done."

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