{"id":792765,"date":"2019-02-05T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=790553"},"modified":"2019-02-05T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:42:12","slug":"al-green-plots-first-tour-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/al-green-plots-first-tour-in-seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Green Plots First Tour in Seven Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1200223l.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Soul legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/al-green\/\" id=\"auto-tag_al-green\" data-tag=\"al-green\">Al Green<\/a> has announced a short tour that marks his first run of shows in seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The five-date tour kicks off April 4th at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas. Green will then perform in Irving, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana \u2013 where he\u2019ll take the stage at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rolling-stones-katy-perry-dave-matthews-band-2019-new-orleans-jazz-fest-lineup-779435\/\">Jazz and Heritage Festival<\/a> \u2013 and Houston, Texas, before wrapping May 3rd at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Green will receive support from Tank and the Bangas and the War and Treaty on select dates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tickets for Al Green\u2019s theater shows will go on sale February 8th at 10 a.m. local time (tickets for Jazz Fest are already on sale). Complete information is available via Green\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/algreen\/app\/123966167614127\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Green has not released a new album since 2008\u2019s <em>Lay It Down<\/em>, last September the 72-year-old singer released his first song in ten years, a rendition of the soul deep cut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-al-greens-first-new-recording-in-a-decade-723647\/\">\u201cBefore the Next Teardrop Falls.\u201d<\/a> The track has been covered by artists like Jerry Lee Lewis, Linda Martell and Freddy Fender, and it was producer Matt Ross-Spang\u2019s idea for Green to cover it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Al Green Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 24 \u2013 Austin, TX @ Bass Concert Hall (with Tank and the Bangas)<br \/>April 26 \u2013 Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory (with the War and Treaty)<br \/>April 28 \u2013 New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival<br \/>April 30 \u2013 Houston, TX @ Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land (with Tank and the Bangas)<br \/>May 3 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre\u00a0(with the War and Treaty)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/al-green-2019-tour-dates-790553\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soul legend Al Green has announced a short tour that marks his first run of shows in seven years. The five-date tour kicks off April 4th at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas. Green will then perform in Irving, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana \u2013 where he\u2019ll take the stage at the annual Jazz and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:32:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}