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Aimee Mann flexes 'Forgotten Arm' on North American tour
Aimee Mann follows a late-spring round of shows behind her recently released album, "The Forgotten Arm," with a string of summer dates.
The singer/songwriter will spend most of June working the eastern U.S., and will then tackle the Midwest and West during a trek that is currently scheduled to launch in Chicago at the end of July. Details are included below.
Released on May 3, "The Forgotten Arm" is Mann's follow-up to 2002's "Lost in Space." She recorded the set in just five days last summer with producer/singer/songwriter Joe Henry.
Backing Mann in the studio were guitarists Jeff Trott (Sheryl Crow) and Julian Coryell, keyboardist Jebin Bruni, bassist Paul Bryan, and drummers Victor Indrizzo and Jay Bellarose.
In a press release, Mann explained that she got the idea for the new album's title after taking up boxing.
"My friend who boxes has this move he was showing me and his name for it is 'The Forgotten Arm,'" she said. "It's like when you have someone on the ropes and you're hitting with your left hand and you have you're other hand between the two of you and your opponent forgets about the right arm, so you can bring it in for an uppercut. To me it's about the fact that the knock out punch is always the one you never see coming."
