Citizen Cope to release ‘The Rainwater’ LP March 2, 2010

Citizen Cope, aka Clarence Greenwood, is very excited to announce the release of his new record, The Rainwater LP, on March 2, 2010. The record will be released digitally on February 9th. As on his past two records, The Rainwater LP was produced by Greenwood himself. It is his first record in nearly four years and the first on his own label, RainWater Recordings, Inc. A huge national tour that begins February 2nd in Carrboro, NC, and ends April 17 in Kansas City, MO, has been confirmed. Full tour dates are listed below.

The Rainwater LP, a laidback gumbo of acoustic blues, singer/songwriter rock ‘n’ roll and deep soul grooves, was recorded over the course of 2009 at both Brooklyn Recording in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, and The Document Room in Malibu, CA, with extensive periods of touring in between sessions. Among the musicians accompanying him this time were such studio stars as bassist Preston Crump (OutKast, Organized Noize, Raphael Saadiq), keyboardist James Poyser (D’Angelo, The Roots, Jill Scott, John Legend), percussionist Bashiri Johnson (Whitney Houston, Donald Fagen, Madonna), legendary go-go bassist Michael “Funky Ned” Neal and top DC-scene go-go drummer Paul “Buggy” Edwards.

Like the music therein, the album takes its name from a number of deeply personal sources. “It’s pure,” Greenwood says. “It’s also the name of someone that was close to me when I was growing up, so it just made sense.”

When discussing how he came to self-release his music after many years on major labels, he says: “A lot of labels wanted to put it out, but I kept hearing things like ‘Retail’s gonna need you to do this’ or ‘The artwork has to be like this.’ I don’t want to be led into those confines anymore. I want to be able to do it my own way. Being able to operate efficiently, not having to move buildings to do anything, just seems so basic for any artistic endeavor.”

A remarkably charismatic live performer, Citizen Cope has been a committed road warrior, introducing his music to the people by traveling America’s highways and byways, often performing in places where other major artists fear to tread.

“When you do the major cities, people come from all these other places and say, ‘Come to this town,’” Greenwood says. “So the next time you tour you think, ‘Okay, let’s try Tulsa, Oklahoma or Oxford, Mississippi or Fayetteville, Arkansas.’ It’s been amazing, every year it just gets bigger and bigger.”

Citizen Cope Tour Info:

February

• 2 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
• 3 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
• 4 Towson, MD Recher Theatre
• 5 Towson, MD Recher Theatre
• 6 Richmond, VA The National
• 10 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
• 11 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
• 12 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
• 13 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
• 14 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
• 17 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place
• 18 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts
• 24 Providence, RI Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
• 25 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
• 26 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
• 27 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club

March

• 2 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue
• 3 Louisville, KY Headliner’s Music Hall
• 5 Chicago, IL The Vic
• 6 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre
• 7 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre
• 9 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
• 10 Dallas, TX House of Blues
• 12 Austin, TX Stubbs
• 13 Houston, TX House of Blues
• 15 Baton Rouge, LA Varsity Theatre
• 16 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s
• 30 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
• 31 Portland, OR Roseland, Theatre

April

• 1 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
• 2 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
• 3 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
• 7 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
• 8 San Diego, CA Wave House of San Diego
• 9 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
• 10 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
• 13 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
• 14 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
• 15 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
• 16 Denver, CO Ogden
• 17 Kansas City, MO The Midland Theatre

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