SPILL NEWS: CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD BRINGS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR TO ONTARIO | ‘COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING’ OUT NOW VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD BRINGS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR TO ONTARIO

LP COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING OUT NOW VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

After a successful run of festival stops this summer and fall in Canada and the UK supporting her new album, Could Have Done Anything, Charlotte Cornfield will soon be embarking on another stretch of tour dates including 4 stops in her home province of Ontario beginning November 2. Full dates can be found below.

Could Have Done Anything, the follow-up to Cornfield’s break-out hit Highs in the Minuses, is a testament to this uncommon life and all its possibilities, an acknowledgment that the best musicians can turn fleeting moments into timeless songs. Throughout, Cornfield tried to channel the energy of her favorite classic records, from Tapestry to Blood On The Tracks to Car Wheels On A Gravel Road — albums where the listener is simply carried by the songs and the playing.

Whereas Cornfield’s preceding albums were made in familiar settings, with troupes of friends, this time she reached into the unknown, contacting producer Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman). The two convened in Upstate New York, first at the stained-glass-tinted Dreamland Recording Studios, then at the nearby Isokon Studio, run by engineer D. James Goodwin (Kevin Morby, Whitney) and assistant engineer Gillian Pelkonen. Four people, one album, six days; Kaufman and Cornfield (who went to school for jazz drums) played every instrument themselves, from ringing guitars to cozy piano, Hammond B3, pedal steel and synthesizers. That was the spirit of this record: connection, possibility, acceptance. “Don’t be afraid to take a left,” Kaufman would say.

After six days of recording, Cornfield came back to Canada, with a new album to mix and master. Another day-long drive; another homecoming; and one more thing, too, which would arise a little over nine months later: the singer’s first baby, who was born in mid-April. Anything can happen. Every year’s a kind of coming-of-age, and over these nine magnetic tracks, Cornfield begins yet another chapter as a mother.

Tour Dates

10/25 – Brooklyn, NY / Baby’s All Right
10/26 – Philadelphia, PA / World Cafe Upstairs
10/27 – Boston, MA / Red Room at Cafe 939
10/28 – Amherst, MA / The Drake
11/2 – Toronto, ON / The Great Hall
11/17 – Hamilton, ON / Mill’s Hardware
11/23 – Ottawa, ON / NAC 4th Stage
11/25 – Kingston, ON / Next Church

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Photo Credit: Brittany Carmichael 

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