CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD’S NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 1ST

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"Charlotte Cornfield is a songwriter who brings a sense of profundity to the simplest of phrases." – The FADER

“[Charlotte Cornfield] is one of our best living songwriters.” – Paste

“Charlotte Cornfield always fills her lyrics with beautiful, evocative images” - Exclaim!

"Cornfield’s strength has always been writing profoundly emotional songs rooted in her own experiences and making them feel like your own." – SPIN

"Charlotte Cornfield is Canada’s best-kept secret" – Rolling Stone

After a successful run of festival stops this summer supporting her new album, Could Have Done Anything, Charlotte Cornfield is announcing another stretch of tour dates beginning September 1st with stops through Canada including performances at End of The Road, Cultivate Festival and POP Montreal. Full dates can be found below.

WATCH / SHARE “GENTLE LIKE THE DRUGS” HERE

Could Have Done Anything, the follow-up to Cornfield’s break-out hit Highs in the Minuses, is a testament to this uncommon life and all its possibilities, an acknowledgment that the best musicians can turn fleeting moments into timeless songs. Throughout, Cornfield tried to channel the energy of her favorite classic records, from Tapestry to Blood On The Tracks to Car Wheels On A Gravel Road — albums where the listener is simply carried by the songs and the playing. 

Whereas Cornfield’s preceding albums were made in familiar settings, with troupes of friends, this time she reached into the unknown, contacting producer Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman). The two convened in Upstate New York, first at the stained-glass-tinted Dreamland Recording Studios, then at the nearby Isokon Studio, run by engineer D. James Goodwin (Kevin Morby, Whitney) and assistant engineer Gillian Pelkonen. Four people, one album, six days; Kaufman and Cornfield (who went to school for jazz drums) played every instrument themselves, from ringing guitars to cozy piano, Hammond B3, pedal steel and synthesizers. That was the spirit of this record: connection, possibility, acceptance. “Don’t be afraid to take a left,” Kaufman would say.

WATCH / SHARE “CUT AND DRY” HERE

After six days of recording, Cornfield came back to Canada, with a new album to mix and master. Another day-long drive; another homecoming; and one more thing, too, which would arise a little over nine months later: the singer’s first baby, who was born in mid-April. Anything can happen. Every year’s a kind of coming-of-age, and over these nine magnetic tracks, Cornfield begins yet another chapter as a mother. 

WATCH / SHARE “YOU AND ME” HERE

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD TOUR DATES
09/1-  Salisbury, UK / End of the Road Festival
09/23 - Port Hope, ON / Cultivate Festival
09/28 - Montreal, QC / POP Montreal
10/25 - Brooklyn, NY / Baby's All Right
10/26 -  Philadelphia, PA / World Cafe Upstairs
10/27 - Boston, MA / Red Room at Cafe 939
10/28 - Amherst, MA / The Drake
11/2 - Toronto, ON / The Great Hall
11/17 - Hamilton, ON / Mill's Hardware
11/23 - Ottawa, ON / NAC 4th Stage
11/25 - Kingston, ON / Next Church

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CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD PRESENTS NEW SINGLE/VIDEO, “GENTLE LIKE THE DRUGS”

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NEW ALBUM, COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING, OUT FRIDAY ON NEXT DOOR RECORDS

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"Charlotte Cornfield is a songwriter who brings a sense of profundity to the simplest of phrases." – The FADER

“[Charlotte Cornfield] is one of our best living songwriters.” – Paste
“Charlotte Cornfield always fills her lyrics with beautiful, evocative images” - Exclaim!

"Cornfield’s strength has always been writing profoundly emotional songs rooted in her own experiences and making them feel like your own." – SPIN

"Charlotte Cornfield is Canada’s best-kept secret" – Rolling Stone

Photo Credit: Brittany Carmichael // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Charlotte Cornfield presents her new single/video, “Gentle Like The Drugs”, from her forthcoming album, Could Have Done Anything, out this Friday, May 12 on Next Door Records. “Gentle Like the Drugs” draws on imagery from a spring tour in the American west. “I wrote this song after a particularly special and memorable tour opening for Pedro the Lion in the west of the US. Something strong clicked on that tour, and I was experiencing joy on the road in a way I really hadn’t before, feeling fully present and just revelling in the company of my bandmates and taking in the spectacular landscape in a way that felt like a deep breath.” Cornfield says, “I had never really been to the desert before, to Southern Utah and Arizona, and I was very moved by it. This is a drifting summer song to me, about letting grief and anxiety go and feeling light and buzzed and in love and joyful.”

You can hear it in the patient pleasure of these chords, or the way Cornfield narrates her first impressions of Arizona: ‘I watch the colors get real / the pink and the teal / I see a dust devil / I see an elevator’. Like riding across the desert with your friends; like smoking a joint at the end of a long day; but the song’s alternating verses orient themselves towards another sensation, too: that feeling of being home, and happy, when your lover’s not around. Not because they’re gone, but because you know they will return.

“Gentle Like The Drugs” is presented alongside a transportive video directed by Ali Vanderkruyk. Of the video, Vanderkruyk adds, “The video is a 16mm travelogue following the hand of a wanderer writing postcards to a loved one back home. Each vignette acts as vessel for the lyrics for the song, acknowledging the beauty of home while observing the unfamiliar. We see the kitsch in chosen images for a postcard, as well as the ways one can personalize an object that is available to the masses.”

WATCH / SHARE “GENTLE LIKE THE DRUGS” HERE
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Could Have Done Anything, the follow-up to Cornfield’s break-out hit Highs in the Minuses, is a testament to this uncommon life and all its possibilities, an acknowledgment that the best musicians can turn fleeting moments into timeless songs. Throughout, Cornfield tried to channel the energy of her favorite classic records, from Tapestry to Blood On The Tracks to Car Wheels On A Gravel Road — albums where the listener is simply carried by the songs and the playing. 

Whereas Cornfield’s preceding albums were made in familiar settings, with troupes of friends, this time she reached into the unknown, contacting producer Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman). The two convened in Upstate New York, first at the stained-glass-tinted Dreamland Recording Studios, then at the nearby Isokon Studio, run by engineer D. James Goodwin (Kevin Morby, Whitney) and assistant engineer Gillian Pelkonen. Four people, one album, six days; Kaufman and Cornfield (who went to school for jazz drums) played every instrument themselves, from ringing guitars to cozy piano, Hammond B3, pedal steel and synthesizers. That was the spirit of this record: connection, possibility, acceptance. “Don’t be afraid to take a left,” Kaufman would say. 

WATCH / SHARE “CUT AND DRY” HERE
BUY / STREAM “CUT AND DRY” HERE

After six days of recording, Cornfield came back to Canada, with a new album to mix and master. Another day-long drive; another homecoming; and one more thing, too, which would arise a little over nine months later: the singer’s first baby, who was born in mid-April. Anything can happen. Every year’s a kind of coming-of-age, and over these nine magnetic tracks, Cornfield begins yet another chapter as a mother. 

WATCH / SHARE “YOU AND ME” HERE
BUY / STREAM “YOU AND ME” HERE

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD TOUR DATES
Thu. July 6 - Sun. July 9 - Winnipeg, MB @ Winnipeg Folk Fest
Fri. July 21 - Sun. July 23 - Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
Thu. Aug. 31 - Sun. Sept. 3 - Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Thu. Sept. 28 - Montreal, QC @ Rialto Rooftop - Pop Montreal

PRE-ORDER COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING HERE

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COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING TRACKLIST
1. Gentle Like the Drugs
2. You and Me
3. In From the Rain
4. The Magnetic Fields
5. Cut and Dry
6. Nowhere
7. I Dream Of
8. Could Have Done Anything
9. Walking with Rachael

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CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD PRESENTS NEW SINGLE / VIDEO, “CUT AND DRY”

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COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING, OUT MAY 12, 2023 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

MORE SUMMER FESTIVAL DATES ADDED

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Charlotte Cornfield is “a songwriter like few others, so able to deftly create in her songs an emotional resonance that when plugged in, hits us all right where we can share in her memories” (SPIN). Today, Cornfield presents “Cut and Dry”, the new single/video from her forthcoming album, Could Have Done Anything, out May 12 on Next Door Records. Could Have Done Anything is at once elaborate and unrehearsed; there’s a sense that it’s coming together — and coming alive — at the very moment it’s being made. “The hours flew by,” Cornfield says. “We lived inside of the songs there, for a few days.” You can hear it on a tune like “Cut and Dry”, where a radiant, easygoing groove forms the landscape of a song about seeing people as a whole, together with their mistakes.

Of “Cut and Dry” and its heartwarming video, Cornfield states: “When I wrote this song I was thinking about the idea of leaving things behind as a part of moving on - those painful past experiences that cause a pang of embarrassment and regret, the people who were at one point a central part of my life with whom I've fallen out of orbit - and how we can't really sever ties with our past selves no matter how hard we try.

“When I sent this track to my brother Joe it really resonated with him, and he told me that he was sitting on a bunch of old family camcorder footage that he'd been meaning to check out. When he unearthed it there was this treasure trove of childhood music moments, from a kindergarten christmas concert to a ragtime piano competition to basement rockouts from that awkward preteen stage. I was struck by the images of my childhood self and how much of the present-day me I see in her, especially in the joy and passion and drive around music.

“We brought the camcorder out to the rehearsal space and then to the most recent show that I played, at 8 months pregnant, and the whole thing feels like a full circle moment.”

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MORE ABOUT COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING
Could Have Done Anything, the follow-up to Cornfield’s break-out hit Highs in the Minuses, is a testament to this uncommon life and all its possibilities, an acknowledgment that the best musicians can turn fleeting moments into timeless songs. Throughout, Cornfield tried to channel the energy of her favorite classic records, from Tapestry to Blood On The Tracks to Car Wheels On A Gravel Road — albums where the listener is simply carried by the songs and the playing. 

Whereas Cornfield’s preceding albums were made in familiar settings, with troupes of friends, this time she reached into the unknown, contacting producer Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman). The two convened in Upstate New York, first at the stained-glass-tinted Dreamland Recording Studios, then at the nearby Isokon Studio, run by engineer D. James Goodwin (Kevin Morby, Whitney) and assistant engineer Gillian Pelkonen. Four people, one album, six days; Kaufman and Cornfield (who went to school for jazz drums) played every instrument themselves, from ringing guitars to cozy piano, Hammond B3, pedal steel and synthesizers. That was the spirit of this record: connection, possibility, acceptance. “Don’t be afraid to take a left,” Kaufman would say. 

WATCH / SHARE “YOU AND ME” HERE
BUY / STREAM “YOU AND ME” HERE

After six days of recording, Cornfield went back to Canada, with a new album to mix and master. Another day-long drive; another homecoming; and one more thing, too, which would arise a little over nine months later: the singer’s first baby’s due April 2023. Anything can happen. Every year’s a kind of coming-of-age, and over these nine magnetic tracks, Cornfield begins yet another chapter.

PRE-ORDER COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING HERE

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD TOUR DATES
Thu. July 6 - Sun. July 9 - Winnipeg, MB @ Winnipeg Folk Fest
Fri. July 21 - Sun. July 23 - Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
Thu. Aug. 31 - Sun. Sept. 9 - Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Thu. Sept. 28 - Montreal, QC @ Rialto Rooftop - Pop Montreal

DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING TRACKLIST
1. Gentle Like the Drugs
2. You and Me
3. In From the Rain
4. The Magnetic Fields
5. Cut and Dry
6. Nowhere
7. I Dream Of
8. Could Have Done Anything
9. Walking with Rachael

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD ONLINE
WEBSITE
BANDCAMP
INSTAGRAM
TWITTER
FACEBOOK