Beth Hart whose powerhouse and soul-baring voice has been compared to Janis Joplin, Etta James and Amy Winehouse will be coming to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, September 10 at the Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead as Very Special Guest with The Rides, the new all-star blues-rock group comprised of Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield/CSN/CSN&Y), fellow guitar slinger Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and venerable Electric Flag keyboardist Barry Goldberg. She has a terrific “comeback” story that just continues to mushroom.
If you’ll click here, you’ll see for yourself just what an extraordinary performer – and story – she is.
You may have seen Beth last December when she joined Jeff Beck at the Kennedy Center Honors to pay musical tribute to nominee Buddy Guy. She received a rare, non-nominee standing ovation that included the President and Mrs. Obama, and Guy, while not familiar with Hart at the time, was so impressed, he asked her to sing vocals on the track “What You Gonna Do About Me” for his new album, Rhythm & Blues, that was released July 30.
Her latest album, Bang Bang Boom Boom has received stellar reviews, she headlined her first U.S. tour in 12 years this past April/May, and sold every date out, she impressed Conan O’Brien when she made her first late-night TV appearance in more than a decade, Seesaw, her second album with blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Blues Chart, and Miley Cyrus singled out Beth as one of her five favorite female singers.
Beth had a very promising career back in the 90s, signed to Atlantic Records after a bidding war, bookings on the Tonight Show, Letterman, and an offer from SNL, great tours, great press, a hit record with “L.A. Song,” but lost it all to substance abuse and an undiagnosed bi-polar disorder. She hit rock bottom, but then about 10 years ago, picked herself up, got clean and healthy, got married, and started rebuilding her career in Europe. She’s now selling out 2-4,000-seat venues there, and the release of Bang Bang Boom Boom is her tool to reclaim America. Her story is one of great potential, losing it all, and now, redemption.
