Blues Traveler Announces Fall Tour

08/29/2000 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(8/29/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Jamming rock band Blues Traveler will embark on its first national tour of the new century this fall, according to the group's official website bluestraveler.com. Before hitting the road, however, the band plans to wrap up recording its sixth studio album, the first since 1997's Straight On Till Morning.

Unfortunately, Blues Traveler has suffered many setbacks since the release of that last album. On August 20, 1999, bassist Bobby Sheehan died of an overdose (LAUNCH, 8/20/99); earlier that summer, lead singer John Popper checked himself into a hospital complaining of chest pains, forcing the rescheduling of two John Popper Band shows (LAUNCH 7/1/99). Now, with the addition of bassist Tad Kinchla and keyboard player Ben Wilson, Blues Traveler is posed to become a road warrior once again.

Blues Traveler tour dates (subject to change):

10/6 - Mobile, AL - Bayfest
10/7 - Vance, AL - The Mercedes Benz Environmental Benefit
10/20 - Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Mellon University
Octover 21 - Lancaster, PA - Chameleon
10/23 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cats Cradle
10/24 - Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall
10/24 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
10/27 - Tuscaloosa, AL - University of Alabama
10/29 - New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Music Festival
10/30 - Oxford, MS - The Library
10/31 - Athens, GA - Georgia Theater
11/1 -Charleston, SC - Music Farm
11/3 - Norfolk, VA - Norva
11/4 - Gettysburg, PA - TBA
11/5 - Charlottesville, VA - Trax
11/7 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11/8 - Philadelphia, PA - TLA
11/10 - Geneva, NY - Smith Opera House
11/11 - Albany, NY - Northern Lights
11/12 - Buffalo, NY - Sideshow
11/15 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at the Hard Rock
11/17 - Portland, ME - Asylum
11/18 - Killington, VT - The Picklebarrel
11/19 - Concord, NH - Capitol Center
11/22 - New York, NY - Roseland

-- Chad Dougatz, New York