Headed back out with @chuckprophetinexile and The Mission Express one week from tomorrow— can’t wait, I had so much fun touring the EU with these guys, now it’s time to bring it all to our friends in the UK 🇬🇧!!! And this time, I’ll be accompanied for most of the shows for a few songs each night by the extremely talented @kendalljanemeade , who I co-wrote with on one of my favorite songs on my new album, In Bloom. The video for our song “Heaven On A Car Ride” will premier on 5/23, and be released on 5/26, just in time to kick off this UK run with some wind in the ‘ol sails. Stay tuned friends, and if you’re anywhere near us first two weeks of June, no excuses, come out with your bells 🔔 on!! 🖤 🏴☠️ (photo by @forneyfarms )
EU and US friends!! Pre-order my new record, In Bloom, at the link in my bio today! I’m headed to the UK early June with physical copies of In Bloom, but we won’t be seeing all of you in the states and EU for a few months, so order your copy today. This new record sounds amazing, and has some of the most powerful and beautiful moments I’ve ever been able to capture in the studio. I’ve really been trying to build audience around the world, and every one of your pre-orders helps a lot to keep me making music and out there on the road, with all of you ♥️ ⚡️ 🏴☠️
(Pic by @m_a_g_g_i_e_jm )
Had a really good time playing the legendary @theiridium in Times Square, NYC with @alejandro_escovedo last week. Pics 1 and 3 by Arnie Goodman. Pic 2 by @bob_gruen
#timessquare
#americana
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#bobgruen
Jai and I made it home from Rome Monday after last shows with @chuckprophetinexile in the EU. Headed to NYC tomorrow to play The Iridium with @alejandro_escovedo tomorrow night. It will be a beautiful show, and there are a few more tickets left. Come on out 🖤 ⚡️ 🏴☠️
On the eve of finishing an amazing EU tour with @chuckprophetinexile , I’ve posted the preorder link in my bio for my new record, In Bloom, due out June 2nd, just in time for a second run with Chuck and the gang in the UK. Thanks to all the beautiful people that sold out almost every night over the past three weeks ⚡️ 🏴☠️. There a lot of makers to thank for the creation of In Bloom, and I’ll start with @highhopes.design , @fernmaddie and @split_graphics for the album art posted here. I’ll be posting credits for all of the lovely humans that put this assembly together as we approach release. It takes a village.
@m_a_g_g_i_e_jm ‘s “F” and “A” (to protect identity) @raindogshousesavona I love when there are young people at the shows. I always work harder to find a new level of authenticity when there are. They watch with fresh interest, un-jaded and hopeful that they might see something trustworthy and interesting, something they want from the world and might want from themselves. I’m done complaining about the “world of troubles” we humans have made for ourselves. Our kids deserve better than that. They deserve our complete willingness to lean toward the light and believe in their future. No more pessimism, it’s time to own up to our own personal hope, because if you’re still getting up in the morning with any urgency at all, it’s because you still believe in your own dreams, under all the sarcasm and cynicism, you still believe you’ll fall in love with someone and something everyday, and our kids deserve that story from us, over all others 💙.
Now, in honor of record store day, I might be overjoyed to be playing @folkarock_official @folkarock_malmo in Malmo Sweden with @chuckprophetinexile , but my heart is with my favorite record store in the world, @buch_spieler_records , in Montpelier VT. Huge love to @junessongs , Knayte, Xav and Kev. Thanks for keeping a sacred space for real music education in our small city 🖤 🎸 🏴☠️ ⚡️
#record
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“Daddy was a Bankrobber”! Check out our cover of The Clash’s Bankrobber, out today on your favorite streaming platforms! Thanks to @trgmusic , @colinj.mccaffrey , @bdrms4u , Ed Maxwell and @cottagesounds for the powerful band support and production on this rousing rendition. Huge thanks to my dad, @bobgruen for his amazing photo of The Clash, Boston, 1979, for the cover of this single. And finally, to @ligera.milano , the great Milano venue we played 1st night of this @chuckprophetinexile tour, for my “Inmate” uniform here in this release day shot. Check it out now at the link in my bio ⚡️
#theclash
#bankrobber
#joestrummer
#mickjones
#bobgruen
#ligera
#buchspeilerrecords
@ellokal_zh in Zurich was a blast 💥 @chuckprophetinexile melted faces, especially because the audience was pressed right up against the stage 🎸 Everyone is so happy to be out at the clubs and to see Chuck again. On our way from IT, Jai and I stopped for lunch in the Alps in a town called Brunnen… Gorgeous!!
#rocknroll
#americana
#eurotour
#chuckprophetandthemissionexpress #krisgruen #alps #zurich #goodbeerweek
Great night in Alessandria, but they really know how to do karaoke in Chiari!!
What a fun time with @chuckprophetinexile in Savona and Chiari! @raindogshousesavona is one of those legendary clubs sitting on the shore of the Ligurian sea, arrived at by cobble stone streets dressed in frescos (first pic), but gets the world’s best bands and audiences, even at this distant outpost. Second shot is the headliner and the merch-girl (Chuck and Jai) headed to dinner before the show; third is a little clip of the mission express setting up another banger last night is Chiari. Three shows down, now the formula congeals 🏴☠️
Day off at the Duomo in Milan ahead of EU leg of @chuckprophetinexile tour. First shows have been great with these guys. Chuck’s been playing colorful, story driven songs from his entire catalogue and his band is rockin! They’re all super nice guys, no pretense, totally pro. Our audiences have been so patient with our total lack of Italian, all I got is buona sera, grazie, and tiamo, so everyone thinks I’m in love with them.
#amaricana
#chuckprophet
#italianrocknroll
#milancathedral
Here we go!! Next week we join Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express @chuckprophetinexile for fifteen dates through six countries. It’s been six years since either Chuck, or I have been in these regions, and that’s waaay too long! EU friends, find a date near you⚡️ 🖤 🏴☠️
Y’all, I got to record a song with some of my heroes yesterday.. Legs Mcneil @legs_mcneil and Bobby Sheehan organized a super-group to record a cover of a 130 year old song called “The Bowery” at Ivan Julian’s studio, Super Giraffe, in Williamsburg, and they asked me to sing it! Left to right, that’s Glen Matlock @glenmatlock1 ; Richard Lloyd @mr_r_lloyd ; Ivan Julian @ivanjulianofficial ; me 😎; and Clem Burke @clem.burke . They also asked my dad to document and be a part of it. What a crew! The song will be featured in a documentary that Bobby and his wife Sara are making about his amazing NYC-based life story. The session went well and the song sounds great. I love these guys 🖤 🏴☠️ (photos by @bob_gruen )
#sexpistols_official
#blondie
#televisionband
#thevoidoids
#bobgruen
When I was a few years old, I woke up from a nap at my dad’s, and asked him for my Hershey’s bar, he said “it’s gone, Debbie was over while you were sleeping and she ate it”. I was okay with that, cause I had a huge crush, even back then 🖤 I’ll be interviewing my dad tomorrow at @wcc.art in Austin. If you could be at our event, what would you ask Bob @bob_gruen about his amazing life and career? I’ll work as many as possible of your replies here into my interview tomorrow 🏴☠️
#blondie
#debbieharry
Austin friends! The fabulous team at @wcc.art are bringing our father/son collab back to their beautiful Austin based gallery, this Saturday, 3/18, 2-4pm, and this time as part of SXSW 2023 🔥 (swipe for details, and an awesome Debbie Harry silkscreen that @garylichtensteineditions did with my dad that will be for sale). Here we are at SXSW 2011, backstage with Yoko who was about to be interviewed by our beloved Jody Denberg @kutx . My, how time flies 😎 See you Saturday Austin!!
#sxsw
#sxsw2023
#rocknroll
#rocknrollphotography
#bobgruen
#krisgruen
#westchelseacontemporary
I’ve been kinda quiet bout the new record I’m finishing up as we prep for the EU with Chuck Prophet in April. This new one will have some great co-writes, and one of them is with my daughter, Jasmine (@junessongs), who is a gorgeous and heroic young woman. She’s also a helluva lot of fun 🤩 🧑🏼🎤
Played a show and interviewed my dad @bob_gruen at @garylichtensteineditions last Saturday. We loved doing it, and folks in attendance shared some wonderful feedback with us 🙏 Huge thanks to Gary and Melissa (and Christian) for giving us a chance to try this idea in a beautiful space, and to all who came, listened to our stories, and shared their own. 💙 (link to YouTube of interview in bio)
#rocknrollphotography
#bobgruen
NYC (and boroughs) friends and family! This is happening this coming Saturday. I’m so excited to be working with my dad @bob_gruen like this. It’s really a dream come true on many levels. While we’ve collaborated on shared shows before, we’ve never tried on the interview format together. I can’t wait. It’s going to be a very special evening at the @garylichtensteineditions gallery, an intimate venue that will invite the audience deep into the conversation. I hope this is the first of many of these engagements, but “life’s what happens while you’re busy making other plans”, so don’t miss this one 💙 🏴☠️
#garylichtenstein
#nycrocknroll
#rockphoto
#songwriter
#photographer
#rocknrollhistory
#sundancefilmfestival 2023 photo dump. A week late, but the vibe still lingers! Huge thanks to Lisa Precious and The Music Lodge for hosting another stellar set of shows this fest. I played three days alongside @tomproctorband , the fantastic @americansalvageband , and this year’s stand out, @abrahamalexander (seen playing his Hummingbird in pic 6), a star quickly rising, and the nicest guy. We were treated to an intimate, memorable show. The red guitar im playing in the third pic (and the one being played by my talented accompaniment Ronny Katz in pic 4) is a Rask. I’m posing with its gifted maker, Rob Rask in pic 5. These are the most amazing guitars, made of rarified woods that are in some cases 50,000 years old! All of the materials are reuse/sustainable, and Rob and his colleagues pour themselves (and their life stories) into these instruments. Rob has offered to send this particular beauty on the road with me to the EU and UK this spring, so some of you will get to hear it 😎. I was also sooo happy to be able to bring my beautiful family with me for this Sundance, skiing in the mornings, festing in the afternoons and evenings. What a great time! Oh, and that second pic of me playing an impromptu set in the wide brimmed sombrero came together @j.wbennett , the best cowboy/girl shop in the west. Also big thanks to @thewrap for sharing the space with us and a big shoutout to @higherdose for sharing their amazing products with us, keeping us healthy throughout the dance! All the great Lodge photos by @josephvernonreidhead 🖤
#parkcity
#americana
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