A Baker’s Dozen of Clutch News
…Seriously, it’s a lot of news. If news was a thing you could number, it would be at least 13.
And what would 2010 be without a slew of Clutch releases, I ask you? It would hardly be a year at all. The hard-touring, hard-recording, hard-hitting Maryland rockers have a bunch of reissues coming, and as previously reported, a nifty double DVD due in May. Says the PR wire:
2010 will prove to be the busiest calendar year in the career of veteran rock band Clutch. Building on the Top 30 Billboard chart success of 2009’s Strange Cousins from the West (Weathermaker Music), the Maryland based quartet will internationally issue a brand new epic DVD set called Live at the 9:30 in mid May. This 200-minute double-disc concert film will be sold at the fan friendly price of $19.98.
Disc one features a 90-minute full-length concert filmed with seven hi-definition cameras last December at Washington DC‘s legendary 9:30 Club. In addition to newer fan favorites like “50,000 Unstoppable Watts” and “Let a Poor Man Be,” the concert film’s first disc includes an electrifying version of the 1995 Clutch self-titled release in its entirety. An audio version of the full 19-song concert will be exclusively available through iTunes on May 11th.
Disc two is the 110-minute feature film Fortune Tellers Make a Killing Nowadays, which takes a behind the scenes look at Clutch “on tour” city by city in 2009. This “bonus disc” is not limited to recent Clutch happenings however, as it includes rare band interviews as well as vintage never before seen footage documenting much of Clutch‘s history from 1991 to the present. Both discs were directed and produced by Agent Ogden, who first worked with the band, on 2007’s Full Fathom Five: Video Field Recordings.
In support of the tour dates and the forthcoming Live at the 9:30 DVD, as well as the current Strange Cousins from the West CD, Weathermaker Music will release the new single “Let a Poor Man Be” on May 3rd, with an accompanying video clip and a rare promo only EP featuring unreleased material.
As if that’s not enough to keep this hard working rock & roll band musically busy, Clutch and Weathermaker Music are currently preparing expanded CD and vinyl re-issues of catalog pieces From Beale Street to Oblivion, Robot Hive/Exodus and Blast Tyrant. These three highly anticipated projects will be available digitally and physically at retail and the band’s websites on the CD/DVD format on June 22nd, August 17th and October 12th respectively. Double vinyl versions of all three reissues will be available on November 23rd. Track listings are not yet available, but Weathermaker label manager Jon Nardachone hints at some very exciting details:
“The bonus content of the three reissues will be entirely different. We’re still sifting through unreleased Clutch originals, cover songs, live audio, live video, alternate takes, etc. One thing we know for sure is that each reissue will have updated and upgraded artwork/packaging as well as additional music from the exact timeframe each CD was first released. This is not about tacking on a couple of unfinished demos to the end of each CD. We’re producing these with the knowledge that Clutch fans expect something fresh, yet distinguishably representative of that moment in time. The diehard fan will appreciate these projects in a big way.”
Clutch, Live at the 9:30 Club DVDx2 Tracklist
DVD 1:
Clutch Live @ 9:30 Club Filmed Concert Performance 12/28/09
50,000 Unstoppable Watts
Struck Down
Minotaur
Let a Poor Man Be
Big News 1
Big News 2
Rock & Roll Outlaw
Texan Book of the Dead
Escape from the Prison Planet
Spacegrass
I Have the Body of John Wilkes Booth
Tight Like That
Animal Farm
Droid
The House that Peterbilt
7 Jam
Tim Sult vs. the Greys
Regulator
Gravel Road
DVD 2:
Fortune Tellers Make A Killing Nowadays documentary style film
Clutch Live:
USA
6/04 Huntington, WV @ V Club
6/05 Lexington, KY @ Buster’s Billiards & Backroom
6/06 Toledo, OH @ Headliner’s
6/07 Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club
6/09 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
6/10 Little Rock, AR @ The Village
6/11 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo as The Bakerton Group
6/12 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo as Clutch
6/13 Montgomery, AL @ Strange Days
6/14 Houma, LA @ The City Club of Houma
6/15 Beaumont, TX @ Whiskey River
6/17 Greenville, SC @ The Handlebar
6/18 Norfolk, VA @ Norva
6/19 Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock
Europe
7/16/10 Tönsberg, Norway Slottsfjell Festival
7/17/10 Tromso, Norway Bukta Festival
7/19/10 Goteborg, Sweden Sticky Fingers, Top Floor
7/21/10 Athens, Greece AN Club
7/22/10 Milan, Italy Magnolia
7/23/10 Pinerella Di Cevia, Italy Rock Planet
7/25/10 London, England High Voltage Festival
My calendar is marked for all the releases now. Thank you. This is why I enjoy the site so much, ok, maybe not just that but this site is an established stoner rock destination and covers the genre so much better then say rolling stone.