Aimee Man circa 1980's with the band "Till Tuesday" Reproduced form: theadvocate.com
Audiences aren’t likely to hear any ’Til Tuesday songs at an Aimee Mann show.
Mann became a music star and music-video star with ’Til Tuesday’s 1985 Top 10 hit, “Voices Carry.” But since she went solo in the early 1990s, she’s recorded eight albums and received an Oscar nomination for “Save Me,” one of nine Mann songs featured in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 film, “Magnolia.”
In concert, Mann plays selections from every one of her solo albums. She avoids “Voices Carry,” her biggest commercial success.
“There are so many songs from my solo records that I feel more connected to,” she explained from Los Angeles.
Mann released her latest album, “Charmer,” last year. It followed 2008’s “@#%&*! Smilers.”
Mann’s next album won’t be a solo project but a collaboration with her friend, Ted Leo. A musically eclectic East Coast rock musician, Leo is best known since 1999 for his band, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. He’s opening shows for Mann’s fall tour and will likely join her for a few songs during her headlining set.
Mann and Leo named their mutual project The Both. They’re finishing an album to be released next year. In The Both, Mann and Leo alternate singing lead and sing in harmony and unison. She plays bass, he plays guitar and a drummer completes the trio.
“It’s really fun to be part of a rock trio,” Mann said.
Audiences aren’t likely to hear any ’Til Tuesday songs at an Aimee Mann show.
Mann became a music star and music-video star with ’Til Tuesday’s 1985 Top 10 hit, “Voices Carry.” But since she went solo in the early 1990s, she’s recorded eight albums and received an Oscar nomination for “Save Me,” one of nine Mann songs featured in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 film, “Magnolia.”
In concert, Mann plays selections from every one of her solo albums. She avoids “Voices Carry,” her biggest commercial success.
“There are so many songs from my solo records that I feel more connected to,” she explained from Los Angeles.
Mann released her latest album, “Charmer,” last year. It followed 2008’s “@#%&*! Smilers.”
Mann’s next album won’t be a solo project but a collaboration with her friend, Ted Leo. A musically eclectic East Coast rock musician, Leo is best known since 1999 for his band, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. He’s opening shows for Mann’s fall tour and will likely join her for a few songs during her headlining set.
Mann and Leo named their mutual project The Both. They’re finishing an album to be released next year. In The Both, Mann and Leo alternate singing lead and sing in harmony and unison. She plays bass, he plays guitar and a drummer completes the trio.
“It’s really fun to be part of a rock trio,” Mann said.
Mann circa 2013 and still hot Mann’s fall tour, which starts Friday in Austin and runs through mid-November with dates in Europe and the U.K., follows her Sept. 10 appearance at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The occasion was the presentation of the Liberty Medal to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Mann sang one song at the event, “Save Me.” But she doesn’t know how she got the gig, unless it’s because she knows some people who work in the White House. She performed at the White House in 2011 for a day that celebrated poetry.
“That was a real surprise,” she said of the latter appearance. “Who expects to wind up at the White House? But it was an amazing atmosphere. You could tell that the arts are important to that administration, especially to Michelle Obama. And it was inspiring on an artistic level, to see these really fascinating people use language in really interesting ways.”
Mann sang one song at the event, “Save Me.” But she doesn’t know how she got the gig, unless it’s because she knows some people who work in the White House. She performed at the White House in 2011 for a day that celebrated poetry.
“That was a real surprise,” she said of the latter appearance. “Who expects to wind up at the White House? But it was an amazing atmosphere. You could tell that the arts are important to that administration, especially to Michelle Obama. And it was inspiring on an artistic level, to see these really fascinating people use language in really interesting ways.”
| Aimee Mann/Ted Leo WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct 10th. WHERE: Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. TICKETS: $43.50. | |
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