The World Music Ambassador Turned Modern Rocker Turned Accidental Adult Contemporary Super Star, Whose Hit Single “Scene in San Francisco” Hit The Billboard Top 30 Charts recently, Is Set to Release a New Rock Album Entitled ‘The Great Mistake,’ His Latest Project With Ed Hale and The Transcendence, September 18
LOS ANGELES, CA –WABC NEWS — 07/27/12 — Modern rocker turned accidental Adult Contemporary star Ed Hale (www.edhale.com) is back in the studio working on his latest solo album — and he’s letting fans in on the action.
Beginning July 30, the singer, joined by drummer Bill Sommer and bassist Roger Houdaille — both members of his longtime band, indie rock stalwarts The Transcendence — will offer an intimate glimpse of the sessions, video streaming live from NYC as they record the final tracks for the release, scheduled to drop this fall.
The three musicians will keep the cameras rolling throughout the process, allowing fans to “hang out” and experience the music as it comes to life. During breaks in recording, they intend to sit down and answer questions fans send via
Twitter (@ ed_hale) or
Facebook (
www.facebook.com/edhalemusic).
The as yet untitled collection is the follow up to Hale’s solo album
Ballad On Third Avenue, which has spawned two Top 40 hits for the singer, the dreamy acoustic protest ballad
“New Orleans Dreams” and the romantic
“Scene In San Francisco.”
The project is being produced by Houdaille, frontman for the band
Ex Norwegian and longtime member of The Transcendence, and features contributions by all the usual members of The Transcendence and honorary members of the band.
The Transcendence’s long awaited new album
The Great Mistake is scheduled for release September 18.
Hale and his band will soon embark on a ten-city tour that will feature songs from both Hale’s solo albums and all the Transcendence albums. The shows will feature the entire crew of Transcendence alumni reunited and playing on stage together for the first time since 2008.
The tour kicks off with a homecoming show at the
Gibson Showroom in Miami before heading to other Gibson Showrooms in nine major U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Seattle, Las Vegas and Nashville.
Ed Hale will be giving an on-air radio interview with rock station Rockers Dive Radio at 2 pm EST today. Hale will be part of a guest panel discussing a new documentary film the singer/songwriter is featured in entitled INDIE STARDUST. Hale has also signed on as an Executive Producer on the film. INDIE STARDUST explores how the technology and indie revolutions have created a new entertainment business environment and what artists from all mediums are doing to survive and thrive in this new often confusing arena. More details about the film will be forthcoming as they become available. The radio show will also be spinning a few tracks from the latest Ed Hale and the Transcendence album The Great Mistake including the alt-rock radio smashes “Monday”, “Baby Bop” and the song heard round the country last week on Showtime’s hit TV show Shameless, “ManChildWoman”. Download the album on iTunes or Amazon.com if you haven’t already. And make sure to tune in to listen, call in and engage in this trending topic by simply going to the station’s website here: Rockers Dive Radio.
Less than six months after his two Billboard Top30 hits “Scene in
