Greg Laswell

In other news, my next record ‘Landline’ will be out April 24th.

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I haven’t finished Season 1 of Friday Night Lights in under a week or anything, that would be weird.

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iTunes EXCLUSIVE song / iTunes SALE

Hi,

My entire music catalog (when did that happen by the way?) is on SALE on iTunes for a limited time; All three full-lengths are $6.99 and my two EPs are $2.49. I also recently did a cover of Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” and it’s exclusively available on iTunes. But, it’s expensive ($.99). The sale will run through the end of my tour with Sara Bareilles. (You should come out to a show by the way.)
Thanks as always -  I’m off to have a steak sandwich and a steak sandwich.
GL

FREE download

I wrote the majority of the songs for “Take a Bow” while I was in the studio, so early demos of the songs had a way of just being added to until they became final versions. Well, the other day I thought to myself, “I think it’s okay to wear shorts with a sport coat. I mean, I don’t see it that often, but I think I could do it.”  And then a few hours later when I was thinking about stuff again, I thought, “I should go back and record stripped down versions of all of these songs.” So I opened a little four-track session and put a few down. It was difficult for me not to begin adding things again (I’m a producer at heart), but I treated it as an exercise in discipline and I like what came out.

I’ll be uploading one song a week while I’m on tour with Sara Bareilles and you’ll be able to download each for free via Facebook. I hope you enjoy them and perhaps I will see you out on the road.

xGL

Hermosa Beach / Visalia / Seattle

Years ago, seemingly another lifetime now, I was a traveling salesman; the details of which have spun me through more than a few digressions which I have typed out and since erased in the interest of brevity. I digress. One of my ‘territories’ was Visalia, California. And here I am, years later, on a plane flying to California to play a few shows before Bumbershoot in Seattle and one of them is in Visalia (the other one is at Sainte Rocke in Hermosa Beach Tomorrow Night). I supposenot a whole lot has changed…. I’m still traveling.  And I suppose I’m still selling. Isn’t life funny. Rebel against one thing so you can repeat it again with different clothes. I just depressed myself. I’m going to buy a Spy Pen from the SkyMall catalog before this flight lands. And despite my awkward moment of self awareness, I am extremely happy to visit Visalia again.  Last time I didn’t get to sing and play piano.

Fall Tour With Sara Bareilles

Tour dates and ticket links for my upcoming tour with Sara Bareilles
are up on greglaswell.com. Just sayin’.

http://greglaswell.com/tour

Exclusive Pre-Order Bundles / Tickets / Stream THIS

Hi,

Starting TODAY on greglaswell.com, you will be able to do 3 things:

1. Pre-order my new record, Take a Bow, along with new shirts, vinyl, limited edition posters, hoodies, action figures with swivel-arm fighting action AND a limited edition of my very FIRST, previously unreleased record, GOOD MOVIE (no joke there).

2. Get ticket links to my upcoming, full-band, nation-wide tour beginning May 4th.

3. STREAM my NEW RECORD on-line (gulp).

Continued thanks to all of you and I hope to see you soon.

GL

Pre-Order/ Making of “Take A Bow”

Hi,

You can now pre-order my next album, TAKE A BOW, on amazon.com by going here: http://bit.ly/cfI8Am

There is also a “making of video” for the title track (also on amazon.com) here: http://bit.ly/a2cIwB

My little baby is growing up so fast.
Hope you enjoy.
gl

Tour Announced!

I am pleased to announce my first full-band tour for 2010 in support of my new record, “Take a Bow,” due out May 4th. I just finished a short solo tour and it’s going to be nice to make a little noise this time around. If you want a sneak peak, you can go to www.greglaswell.com and download a song called, “Around the Bend” For FREE! (And you can still go to iTunes and download the first single, “Take Everything,” for .99 cents).

This record is very special to me for many reasons, most of which I will tell you about on the road, but for now, I will say that I have never been more excited to release anything else I have done. I look forward to seeing you in May! Tickets go on-sale this Friday and Saturday. - GL

Take Everything / My NEW Single

“Hooo ooor mnayeem maurf gni thear vleh guess nada owoogh.”

That’s the chorus of “Take Everything,” the first single from my new album, “Take a Bow” (out May 4th), spelled out phonetically, the way that I had to sing it for the music video.  Clearly I didn’t think about how difficult it was going to be to learn my entire song backwards when I decided on a reversed video idea.I haven’t done homework like that since college (that’s not true, I never did any homework in college.  I don’t even really know why I went).  To put it in perspective, the entire song took me about 3 days to record in the studio.  It took me four days to learn it backwards.  We’ll leak out a few sneak peeks very soon for your viewing pleasure.  The song, however, will be released in its (forward) entirety on iTunes THIS Tuesday, March 2nd!  Oh, and this song is NOT the same song as the one also named “Take Everything” on my covers EP.  They don’t even share a mom.
I’ll log back in soon.

gl

My 2010 Winter

I’m nearly at the end of my solo-residency shows and I wanted to thank those of you who have been a part of it.  It had been a long, long while since I played full shows completely on my own and it was nice to be able to share the songs as they exist the moment I finish writing them; before all the bells and whistles.  It was also nice to be able to come out after each show and say hello to many of you.  I look forward to coming back in May to make more noise with the band, but these shows have been very special to me.  So thank you.  Two more to go!  Chicago/Evanston, tomorrow night and Boston, February 23rd.

gl