Amos Lee | photo by Shervin Lainez | courtesy of the artist
Amos Lee announces new album ‘Dreamland’, 2022 tour coming to The Met; listen to “Shoulda Known Better”
Philly-rooted singer-songwriter Amos Lee returns next year with his seventh studio album, Dreamland, due out February 11th on Dualtone.
According to the label, the record is stylistically wide-ranging and dives deep emotionally, covering those universal feelings of the pandemic era: anxiety, depression, despair, but also with a glimmer of hope.
Speaking in a press release of the new single “Shoulda Known Better,” Lee says:
“I’ve had a lot of episodes with anxiety in my life and now I feel much more equipped to handle them, partly because my family and friends have always been so supportive of me…thinking about healing in terms of our personal relationship to the people and the world around us. Over the course of my life I’ve come to understand that music is my bridge to other people. I have no idea what the waters are like below that bridge—it might be lava for all I know—but music allows me to float over the whole thing and connect.”
In addition to the record, Lee has announced a 2022 spring tour that brings him back for a hometown show on Friday, April 15th at The Met Philly. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 1st at 10 a.m. with various presales throughout the week.
Get tickets and more information here, and pre-order Dreamland here; find tour dates below, along with the official lyric video for “Shoudla Known Better.”
April 8 – State Theatre – Portland, ME
April 9 – Lynn Memorial Auditorium – Lynn, MA
April 11 – The Flynn – Burlington, VT
April 12 – Zeiterion PAC – New Bedford, MA
April 14 – Beacon Theatre – New York, NY
April 15 – The Met Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA
April 16 – UMass Fine Arts Center – Amherst, MA
April 18 – The Egg – Albany, NY
April 19 – Kennedy Center – Washington, DC*
April 20 – Byham Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
April 22 – Pabst Theater – Milwaukee, WI
April 23 – Orpheum Theater Madison – Madison, WI
April 24 – Orpheum Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
April 26 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO
April 27 – Cannon Center for the Performing Arts – Memphis, TN
April 29 – Tennessee Theatre – Knoxville, TN
April 30 – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium – Asheville, NC
* with the National Symphony Orchestra