Taking a rare break from the road this week The Milk Carton Kids (Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan) will spend 4 days in the studio recording their next album (due early 2013) before heading right back out on the road for a string of fall solo dates and winter tour with Punch Brothers (dates listed below).
This follows a year of high profile support slots (Old Crow Medicine Show, The Lumineers, KD Lang, Dar Williams, Joe Purdy) and festival appearances (Four Corners Folk Festival, The Americana Music Conference, Folk Alliance, Central Park Summerstage, SXSW & the upcoming Rhythm & Roots Festival).
Pattengale and Ryan have released 2 albums, Retrospect (a live album of their solo songs performed as a duo) and the studio album Prologuefor free, no strings attached, direct-to-fans resulting in more than 115,000 downloads and growing. Prologue also includes a lengthy foreword from legend Joe Henry. Known for their intricately crafted harmonies, winding acoustic guitars and on-stage wit, The Milk Carton Kids use two guitars and two voices to create a new combination of classic folk and sophisticated back-porch Americana. Critical praise has ranged far and wide from supporters such as NPR, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, American Songwriter, Daytrotter, Brooklyn Vegan, No Depression, WXPN, WFUV and more. The band’s one appearance at SXSW 2012 received “best of festival” picks from The New York Times, NPR and Time Magazine.
Headline Dates
9/12 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
9/13 – Durham, NC – Casbah
9/15 – Bristol, VA – Rhythm & Roots Fest
9/16 – Asheville, NC – The Altamont
9/18 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
9/19 – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar
9/20 – Toronto, ON – The Drake
9/22 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall
9/23 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
9/24 – Boston, MA – Club Passim
9/25 – Portland, ME – Empire Dine And Dance
9/27 – New York, NY – 92Y Tribeca
10/2 – Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room
10/4 – Los Angeles, CA – Largo
10/5 -San Diego, CA – Anthology
10/9 – Seattle, WA – The Tractor Tavern
10/10 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
10/11 – Vancouver, B.C. – Media Club
10/12 – Victoria, BC – Venue TBA
10/23 – Atlanta, GA – Eddie’s Attic
10/25 – Birmingham, AL – Moonlight On The Mountain
10/26 – Nashville, TN – Venue TBA
10/27 – Louisville, KY – Uncle Slaton’s
10/28 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
10/30 – Chicago, IL – Space
11/1 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
11/2 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Café
11/3 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
11/4 – Philadelphia, PA – Tin Angel
11/5 – Vienna, VA – Jammin’ Java
Supporting Punch Brothers
11/26 – Bend, OR – Tower Theatre
11/27 – Chico, CA – CSU Laxson Auditorium
11/29 – Napa, CA – Napa Valley Opera House
11/30 – Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theatre
12/4 – Santa Barbara, CA – Lobero Theatre
12/5 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
12/7 – SLC, UT – The Depot
12/9 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
12/11 – Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
12/12 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
