The Wallflowers assemble tour behind ‘Red Letter Days’
ByOct 6, 2002 10:00 PM
The Wallflowers, preparing to back the release of their forthcoming album “Red Letter Days,” have set the first leg of their first major tour in two years.
The Wallflowers, preparing to back the release of their forthcoming album “Red Letter Days,” have set the first leg of their first major tour in two years.
The outing kicks off on Nov. 20 in Denver, and dates so far are scheduled to run through early December. New Jersey rockers Ours, who will release a new album titled “Precious” on Nov. 5, have been tapped to open.
“Red Letter Days” originally was scheduled for release on Sept. 24, but was pushed back to Nov. 5. “The band believes too much in this record to cut even one corner,” frontman Jakob Dylan wrote on the band’s official website.
The album’s first single, “When You’re On Top,” was released in September.
“Red Letter Days” follows 2000’s “Breach,” which failed to live up to the high sales expectations set by its predecessor, the four-million-plus-selling 1996 release “Bringing Down the House.”
As they were on “Breach,” the Wallflowers are still without a full-time guitarist. According to the Los Angeles Times, frontman Jakob Dylan played most guitar parts on the new album, and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam contributed a few licks. The band has enlisted Yogi, most recently a member of Buckcherry, to play guitar on the upcoming tour.
Founding guitarist Tobi Miller, who left the Wallflowers in 1996, produced the new album along with Bill Appleberry (Adema, 7th House).