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After previously writing songs exclusively on his acoustic guitar, five-time Grammy-nominated English tunesmith James Blunt had more options when he penned material for his third CD, "Some Kind of Trouble."
British pop-rocker James Blunt kicked off his North American tour behind "Some Kind of Trouble" Wednesday night (4/20) at House of Blues in Boston. The 15-track set is the singer/songwriter's third album, which reached the No. 11 spot on The Billboard 200 chart last fall.
English pop rocker James Blunt will hit the tour trail next week for a round of shows supporting his recently released third studio effort, "Some Kind of Trouble."
A week after indie-rock stalwarts Cake shocked the world by having a No. 1 album, in comes Portland, OR's the Decemberists atop the nation's album sales chart. "The King is Dead," the Decemberists' sixth album, sold a healthy 94,000 copies to take the pole position, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
With his new single "Stay the Night, James Blunt is out to prove his range goes far beyond "You're Beautiful." Rolling Stone says the "jaunty, upbeat folk-rock recalls the Waterboys or Van Morrison more than the song that made him famous." Billboard announced, "James Blunt is done singing about heartbreak for now."
British singer/songwriter James Blunt will back his new album, "Some Kind of Trouble," with a springtime tour of North American theaters.
James Blunt doesn't have a U.S. tour on the books at the moment, but he's scheduled to play a free show at Downtown at the Gardens, a mall in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
