Music : David Gray Tickets - Hey, Soul Sister, Listen to What We've Brought Ya
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By: Brent Warnken
 
Date Submitted: 2010-02-16 18:08:06 - Article Views: 2084
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Soul acoustic Brit David Gray is coming to a stadium near you, with new dates added to his already-heaping pile of scheduled performances for a tour around the globe. With Canada dates and several spots up and down the U.S. East Coast, Gray is promoting the summer set Draw the Line.
Kicking off his setting mid-March, the tour will jaunt through until mid-April, hitting Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Durham, Nashville, Miami Beach, Orlando and everything in between. As his eighth studio set, fans know it's going to be good, so act now to get David Gray tickets online.
This year's shows are sure to sell out more quickly than ever, as Gray's previous release, the 2005 Life in Slow Motion, remained one of his biggest international successes with a Top 20 Billboard 200 chart position and a two-week slot on the UK Album charts. But with crossover success, 12 million album sales and a best-selling Irish album, he isn't going to stop from pulling out the big guns with his latest set.
Behind him he sees a Q Award, two Ivor Novellos, two Brit nominations and a Grammy nomination; what he sees in front of him is much, much more. "I didn't have a master plan but I knew that I was gonna make some wholesale changes at the end of making Life in Slow Motion," he said on his website in regards to his last release.
The result is Draw the Line, an introspective and critically-acclaimed piece that took him four years to build. It was after his 2005 release that he felt his commercial appeal and his real life had begun to blur, with a messy result he wasn't too fond of. "I just felt there was a need for some new energy and a new impetus to the whole thing. I was hungry," he continued on his website. So he went out searching for that sound that first made him famous in the '90s, listening to new songs, working with new artists and searching for a new genre. The result wasn't just Draw the Line but a newfound perspective on recording, songwriting and music.
Gray was born in Manchester and grew up in Wales. He started recording music immediately, attracting international commercial attention for his poetic lyrics and mellow acoustic sounds. He signed with Hut Records (UK) and Caroline Records (U.S.) for the release of A Century Ends. The debut album and his next three sets were inquisitive pieces but rarely failed to find a dedicated audience (forcing his first label to drop him).
It wasn't until his fourth studio set White Ladder that Gray had found a goldmine - in the catchy alternative pop classic "Babylon." The set, recorded in a small London apartment in 1998, was released with Gray's own IHT Records and mostly featured his acoustic guitar. The result was instantaneous in Ireland, and with the help of former tourmate Dave Matthews, White Ladder was brought to American audiences with Matthews' own ATO Records. The album went multi-platinum and earned Gray a mainstream record deal. |
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