The coast-to-coast run comes in support of the singer-songwriter’s first new album in seven years, which she previewed with lead single and opening track “Home.”
Sara Bareilles will release Good Grief, her first album since 2019, on August 28 via Epic Records. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter also announced the Good Grief Tour, a coast-to-coast run of fall dates in support of the record.
The self-produced Good Grief was primarily recorded over six days at Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, New York. Bareilles was accompanied on the 14-track follow-up to 2019’s Amidst The Chaos by a band featuring longtime collaborators drummer Charley Drayton, guitarist Butterfly Boucher, keyboardist Misty Boyce, bassist Solomon Dorsey, multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose and co-producer Jonathan Low.
Additional sessions took place with co-producer Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studios in the Hudson Valley. The album also includes contributions from Brandi Carlile, Andrea Gibson, Ingrid Michaelson, Joe Tippett and Megan Falley.
“This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world,” noted Bareilles. “My deepest hope is that Good Grief provides some kind of comfort or catharsis.”
The Good Grief Tour opens September 9 in Boston and works its way through Washington D.C., Toronto (Canada), New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Chicago before heading west. The run continues through Minneapolis, St. Louis, Denver, Austin, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, closing October 19 in Seattle.
Artist, Verizon and Citi presales starts Monday, June 8. General on-sales follow on Wednesday, June 10.
The link to purchase tickets, additional tour information, the Good Grief tracklist and audio of the LP’s lead single “Home” can be found by scrolling below.
Sara Bareilles was inspired to write “Home” after listening to a conversation between Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper about grief and loss on Cooper’s podcast. “It feels like an invitation and a tone setter for the specificity and depth of this record. It just feels really essential right now. In order for us as humans to really know and understand each other, we have to listen to each other’s stories,” Bareilles said regarding her forthcoming album’s lead single and opening track.
