One of indie music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters will embark on a very limited tour this summer, with two chances for her Wisconsin fans to enjoy a night dedicated to a classic album.
Aimee Mann already announced plans to cover the western part of the Badger State by appearing at the revived Eaux Claires Festival on July 24. On Monday, she added a handful of dates around that appearance, including a show at the Pabst Theater on July 27.
The six announced performances that will be part of that tour all revolve around Mann’s landmark album Bachelor No. 2 (or, the Last Remains of the Dodo), which she released in 2000 as her first independent offering on her own SuperEgo Records label. Mann has followed it up with seven studio offerings, including a pair of offerings that topped the Independent Albums chart: 2002’s Lost in Space and 2005’s The Forgotten Arm.
Her contributions to the Magnolia soundtrack — recorded around the same time as her tracks for Bachelor No. 2 — will also be part of the upcoming shows, tickets for which go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday, April 24. You can pick those up online via AXS and at the Pabst/Riverside Theater box offices.
About the show
Released in 2000, Bachelor No. 2 is widely regarded as one of the defining singer-songwriter records of its era, a masterclass in melodic precision, lyrical wit and emotional depth.
Originally recorded during the same creative period, the songs Mann contributed to Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Magnolia, including “Save Me,” which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, stand as some of the most emotionally resonant work of her career.
This tour reunites those sessions on stage in a rare full-album format, giving audiences the opportunity to hear both bodies of work performed together as the unified artistic statement they have always been.
“Bachelor No. 2 and the Magnolia songs are really the same album to me,” Mann says. “They came from the same place, the same period of my life, and the same instinct about what a song should do. It felt like time to finally play them all together, in full.”
