Overview
Multiple Grammy and Dove Award-winners Russ Taff and Steve Taylor will appear in one electrifying night together on the The Almost Farewell Tour. Taff will be both supported and backed on all dates by his longtime friend and collaborator and his Some Band.
The Almost Farewell Tour follows the recent release of Taff’s acclaimed new album, Cover Story.
Executive produced by Taylor (Sixpence None the Richer, Newsboys), produced by John Mark Painter (Fleming & John, Ben Folds, Sevendust), and mixed by Matt Wallace (Faith No More, The Replacements), Cover Story marks perhaps the most singularly special album in Taff’s extraordinary four-decade career, chronicling his remarkable life’s journey with impassioned performances of timeless songs by such masters as Bob Dylan, U2, Prince, Simon & Garfunkel, and more. Highlights include renditions of Depeche Mode’s “People Are People,” Blind Willie Johnson’s “Tear This Building Down,” and an intensely powerful take on The National’s “Demons.”
From a troubled childhood in a small Pentecostal church in California’s San Joaquin Valley to the top of the charts, from impossible heights of creative success to his hard-won battle with the bottle, Russ Taff has told the story of his extraordinary life countless times over the course of his career – but never quite like this. Taff has of course had a landmark career by any standard, earning six GRAMMY® Awards, 16 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and induction into the Gospel Music Association (GMA) Hall of Fame an unprecedented three times— as a solo artist as well as a member of both The Imperials and The Gaither Vocal Band.
Hailed by Prism as a “renaissance man,” musician/filmmaker/writer/producer/entrepreneur Steve Taylor has created a remarkably diverse body of work over the past four decades. Taylor’s recording career began in 1983 and spans both solo work – including such GRAMMY® Award-nominated albums as 1984’s Meltdown and 193’s Squint – as well as founding the groundbreaking alternative rock band Chagall Guevara and fronting the supergroup Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil. In 1994, Taylor’s wide-ranging songcraft was celebrated with the all-star tribute album, I Predict a Clone: A Steve Taylor Tribute. Meanwhile, Taylor has proven an in-demand producer with a track record that includes 1997’s Platinum-certified self-titled third album from Sixpence None The Richer (highlighted of course by the 3x Platinum, worldwide #1 hit single, “Kiss Me” and the Gold-certified “There She Goes”) along with three Gold-certified albums for Newsboys, 1994’s Going Public, 1996’s Take Me To Your Leader, and 2003’s Adoration, all four of which earned GRAMMY® Award nominations.
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