Saturday, March 01, 2008

Tristan Prettyman

it seems like girls with strong voices are in right now, like Duffy (co-incidently, check out the Mercury music showcase at SXSW for her first US performance).

Check out Tristan Prettyman, she writes these beautiful little acoustic pop songs to back her tremendous voice. It's not like KT Tunstall and those, her song structure is more interesting. She also has a great falsetto. Anyway, check out a track below, what do you have to lose?

"Hello (Acoustic)" by Tristan Prettyman

MySpace:
February 15, 2008 — New York, NY — Singer-songwriter and guitarist Tristan Prettyman has started her tour along with G. Love & Special Sauce in support of her new album entitled Hello. The album will be released April 15, 2008, on Virgin Records and is an appealing portrait of this freewheeling San Diego, CA, native as she narrates stories about her life, loves, and heartbreaks. “I really wanted the album to be a reflection of me,” Prettyman says. “If someone were to say, ‘Tell me about yourself,’ I would just hand them a copy of Hello and say, ‘Here, this is everything you need to know.’”

Now with Hello, Prettyman says she’s “stepped it up a notch,” chalking up the artistic leap between twentythree and Hello to the confidence that comes from incessant touring (“we were able to record pretty much everything live because I had toured for so long”) and just the passage of time. “I have grown so much in the last two years,” she says. “I’ve gone through so many changes and I think the album definitely reflects that. It's more grown-up, and it just feels legit. I’ve never been more excited about anything in my life as I am with this record. It is so me.” [Tristan’s songs are] “salted with a bluesy defiance and her own throaty whisper, making these crank-up-the-volume choruses on songs like “Madly” all the tastier.” – Marie Claire.

Prettyman will be debuting her new single “Madly” on Last Call with Carson Daly March 18, and appearing on the May cover of Foam Magazine.

TOUR DATES:

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE TOUR:
Feb 15 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
Feb 16 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
Feb 17 Flagstaff, AZ Orpheum Theatre
Feb 19 San Francisco, CA PRESS DAY (no show)
Feb 21 Houston, TX Warehouse
Feb 22 Dallas, TX House of Blues
Feb 23 Austin, TX Stubb’s BBQ
Feb 26 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
Feb 27 Tuscaloosa, AL Jupiter
Feb 28 Nashville, TN City Hall
Feb 29 Charlotte, NC Amos’ Southend
March 1 Washington, DC party - venue tba (not with G Love)
Mar 4 Boone, NC Legends
Mar 5 Columbia, SC Headliners
Mar 6 Athens, GA Georgia Theater

HEADLINE TOUR:
March 19 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
March 20 Los Angeles, CA Roxy Theatre
March 21 San Juan Capistrano, CA Coach House
March 22 San Francisco, CA Café du Nord
March 24 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
March 25 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
March 28 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
March 29 Aspen, CO Belly Up Tavern
March 30 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
April 1 Ames, IA Maintenance Shop
April 3 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
April 4 Chicago, IL Back Porch Stage @ House Of Blues
April 5 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues - Cambridge Room
April 7 Ann Arbor, MI The Ark
April 9 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
April 10 New York, NY Blender Theatre @ Gramercy
April 11 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live
April 12 Arlington, VA IOTA Club & Café
April 15 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley
April 17 Orlando, FL The Social
April 18 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
April 19 Decatur, GA Eddie's Attic
April 20 Decatur, GA Eddie's Attic
April 22 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theater
April 24 New Orleans, LA The Parish
April 25 Houston, TX Meridien Small Room
April 26 Austin, TX Stubb's Indoors
April 27 Dallas, TX House Of Blues - Cambridge Room

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