Nona Hendryx: New Album, Summer Tour Dates

By Team JamBase Jun 15, 2012 • 6:00 am PDT

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Legendary funk-rock singer Nona Hendryx is back and bolder than ever on her new album – Mutatis Mutandis – set to be released by Righteous Babe Records on July 31, 2012, out digitally on July 10. The 10-track album is Nona’s first full length in twenty years and she’s returning in a big way.

Mutatis Mutandis is an album that has both politically and socially relevant lyrics wrapped in funky grooves, soulful vocals and rock charged rhythms. Quite simply put, Nona Hendryx is the quintessential “mother” of contemporary artists such as Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae, M.I.A., V.V. Brown, and others.

On Mutatis Mutandis (Latin for “Changing those things which need to be changed”), Hendryx attacks the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh (“Ballad of Rush Limbaugh”), Gulf oil spills (“Oil On The Water”), and lends the necessary gravitas to a striking rendition of Billie Holiday‘s “Strange Fruit” with smoky vocals somewhere between funk and the end of the stratosphere.

Nona will kick off ‘A Woman’s Bill Of Rights Tour’ of the east coast in support of Mutatis Mutandis, beginning in Boston on July 12. She’ll then move on to hit New York, Philly, DC and New Haven before wrapping up in Long Island on July 21. More dates will be added into the summer and early fall.

Hendryx is running a campaign with PledgeMusic to support the tour where participants can pre-order the album and will get access to exclusive tour updates, videos from tour rehearsalsr, a chance for musical rarities as well as some interactive experiences and more surprises. Pledges won’t just help support the tour, but will also help an amazing organization called Little Black Pearl, a school in Chicago for alternative learning for youths ages 12 to 17. Find out more info and ‘Pledge’ at http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/nonahendryx.

‘A Woman’s Bill Of Rights Tour’

  • July 12 – Boston, MA – Johnny D’s
  • July 14 – New York, NY – BB Kings
  • July 15 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
  • July 17 – Washington, DC – U Street
  • July 20 – New Haven, CT – Cafe Nine
  • July 21 – Long Island, NY – Old Mill

    Mutatis Mutandis Tracklisting:

  • 1. Tea Party
  • 2. Temple of Heaven
  • 3. Let’s Give Love a Try
  • 4. Oil on the Water
  • 5. Black Boys
  • 6. When Love Goes To War
  • 7. The Ballad of Rush Limbaugh
  • 8. Black on Black
  • 9. Strange Fruit
  • 10. Mad as Hell, Pt. 1

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