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I am both pleased and terrified to announce The Pen and the Piano Tour. An acoustic evening with me and my friends, Allen Stone, Zac Clark and bob oxblood (formerly of Jack’s Mannequin). I’m pleased because I’ll be boarding a bus with three dear friends, all gifted singer/songwriters to play 6 weeks of intimate shows around the United States. I’m terrified because I want this to be a totally unique concert experience, and the truth is I’m not exactly sure what that looks like yet. In my mind’s eye it’s equal parts VH1 Storytellers and Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. A stage where I can perform and tell stories about the songs I’ve written over the last two decades and where my friends can perform and tell their stories too. It will be weird and fun and honest. An exploration of the moments in between, that make a song worth writing.

Pre-sale tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am local! You can purchase yours with the code PIANO

The general on sale is happening Friday at 10am local.

April 10 - Kansas City, MO @ The Truman April 11 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant April 13 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity April 14 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave April 15 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues April 17 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall April 19 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues April 20 - Pittsburgh, PA @ The Palace Theatre April 21 - Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom April 23 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club April 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts April 26 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club April 29 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza May 1 - Charlottesville, VA @ The Jefferson Theater May 2 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre May 4 - Nashville, TN @ Top Golf Live May 5 - Charlotte, NC @ Underground May 6 - Orlando, FL @ The Beacham May 8 - New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues May 9 - Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn May 10 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater May 12 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren May 13 - San Diego, CA @ Humphreys May 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ Ford Theaters* May 16 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore May 18 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades May 19 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre* May 20 - Spokane, WA @ Bing Crosby Theater May 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex May 24 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre

*no Allen Stone

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Happy Birthday to my sweet Cecilia.

#cecilia #:')

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“Don’t Speak for Me” is a unique track for a lot of reasons but largely because I originally wrote it with, and for another artist. Writing for yourself is one thing but trying to inhabit and understand someone else’s world in a way that feels three dimensional can be tricky and requires empathy. Like so many of these blind date writing sessions that come along when you do what I do for a living, it’s always a gamble. Most days it feels counter intuitive to me on almost every level. So why do I do it? Because it often leads to powerful music. It becomes the cowriters’ task to find some common burden and wrestle it. In “True” we chose to confront that feeling of knowing your so close to being who you were meant to be, where you were meant to be, but still needing time and space to get there. Somewhere in the middle of that feeling, is this anxiety that the world sees you one way, when locked up deep inside yourself is someone altogether different, trying to be heard. I remember leaving the session thinking we had written something special, but more than a year passed before I came back to it. Somehow the words rang truer than the day they were written and I began toying with the idea of using it on ‘Zombies’. It was a new kind of experiment, making a home for a song that I had written for someone else. Isn’t that what a good song should be though. A home for so many. I suppose when we are moved by another person’s story, we’re really just trying on their clothes, seeing through their eyes and realizing how truly similar we all are at the core.

Watch the lyric video for “Don’t Speak For Me”

You only have to wait 2 more weeks before ‘Zombies On Broadway’ comes out on 2/10! Pre-order it now.