Frampton Drops New Album With Summer Tour To Follow

LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) — Following his Grammy Award-winning instrumental album, 2006's Fingerprints, Peter Frampton returns this spring with Thank You Mr Churchill (A&M/New Door/UMe) on April 27, his most personal collection to date. This summer Frampton hits the road on a co-headlining tour with YES.
The 11-song set, co-produced and co-engineered by Frampton, features the legendary guitarist at his most incisive lyrically as he tackles the battles that wage within us and the outside forces that rage around us.

"This album is very autobiographical," Frampton says. "It starts with my birth, which I thank Mr. Churchill for bringing my father back from the Second World War."

Recorded at his home studio in Cincinnati, Churchill is deeply intimate, weaving tales of loss, love and redemption and the lessons learned along the way. Churchill also includes Frampton's reflective take on troubling world events, including the Wall Street bailout ("Restraint") and even the tragic case of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl kidnapped more than 30 years ago by North Korea ("Asleep At The Wheel").

Tour dates:

May 21 – Shelton, WA – Little Creek Casino Resort

May 23 – Tucson, AZ – Pima County Fairgrounds
June 8* – West Palm Beach, FL – Kravis Center

June 9* – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall

June 11* – Biloxi, MS – Beau Rivage Resort

June 15* – Upper Darby, PA – Tower Theatre

June 16* – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

June 18* – Bethel Woods, NY – Center for the Performing Arts

June 20* – Washington, PA – Meadows Racetrack & Casino

June 23* – Vienna, VA – The Fiene Center

June 24* – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Concert Pavilion

June 25* – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center

June 26* – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach

June 29* – Big Flats, NY – Tag's Summer Sound Stage

June 30* – Canandaigua, NY – CMAC

July 4* – Blue Ash, OH – Lake Forest Venue

July 7 – Albuquerque, NM – Sandia Casino Amphitheatre

July 9* – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre

July 10* – Valley Center, CA – Harrah's Rincon

July 11* – Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery

July 13* – Santa Rosa, CA – Wells Fargo Center for the Arts

July 15* – Snoqualmie, WA – Snoqualmie Casino

July 17* – Enoch, AB – River Cree Resort & Casino

July 23* – London, ON – Harris Park

July 24* – Mattawa, ON – Explorer's Point

July 28* – Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion

July 30** – Alpharetta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

July 31 – Orange Beach, AL – The Amphitheater at the Wharf

August 11 – Hamburg, NY – Erie County Fair & Expo

*—with YES

**—with Steve Miller Band

–by CelebrityAccess Staff Writers