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Shania Twain Says Final Tour Doesn't Equal Retirement: 'I Will Be Doing Music Until I Die'

By Gary Graff | Billboard | May 22, 2015 5:35 PM EDT

Shania Twain says the goal of leaving the road after this year's Rock This Country tour is to wind up making more music in the future.

"This is certainly not my retirement from music. I will be doing music for sure until the day I die," Twain -- who hits the road for her first North American tour in 11 years on June 5 in Seattle -- told Billboard during a conference call with reporters. "The time is just right, now, to do other things musically. I want to write more. I want to makes lots more records. I miss making records, and I haven't made enough records in my life and my career. As much as I'm overdue for the touring, I'm overdue for new music. I've done a lot more live performing than I have recording, so I want to do a lot more of that. Not just one album; I've got a bunch of albums I want to make that have been backed up in my own mind. I've got to get them out of my system, and that could take awhile. I'm 50 this year [on Aug. 28]; I've been onstage since I was 8 years old, and I've really put in my fair share of performance. So I see this as an evolution in my career really."

Twain is, in fact, working on a new album -- her fifth overall and first since Up! in 2002 -- although she said it's in its early stages. "Right now it's just me and my guitar," she explained, "so that's kind of blank as far as being able to pinpoint where it will really end up as a finished record, once it's produced. The biggest difference is going to be stylistically; I'm leaning toward wanting the music to sound more organic than my previous stuff, less slick, maybe. I just want to direct it that way, that it's all my favorite instruments in there and a really live feel to things and with a contemporary edge to everything. It will just sound different. I think my voice will be very recognizable; I'm assuming that, anyway." Lyrically, Twain added, "I'm still doing the self-reflection and writing in that vein. I'm just different now and I've lived a lot of different things since (Up!), so the stories and the themes will be obviously different and will reflect how I've evolved."

Twain said she'll be taking "a very little portable setup" on the road with her to continue the songwriting and recording, and she plans to record in earnest on days off. She hoped the album would land closer to the tour but acknowledged the timing "won't leave me time to get the new music finished." She did, however, express hope that "maybe closer to the end of the tour I'll be able to put some of that (new) music in...It's difficult to know when the new album is going to be ready...Maybe near the end of the tour I'll be able to introduce a couple of new songs from the album. I'm dying to do it."

Twain added that she also sees songwriting for others in the future. "I want to write songs for other artists that are coming up," she noted. "I want to sit back and enjoy them having their moment on the stage and being proud that I'm part of their success and watching my music as the observer from the audience. I could be the creator of things and other people could be the performers of my creations and I would be fulfilled. I don't need to be the one performing what I create. So that's a whole other exciting phase for me that I look forward to."

As for the Rock This Country show itself, Twain said it will be packed with hits and high on energy. "It's just a celebration tour," she noted. "I'm reuniting with the fans out there in their home towns, which I have not done in a decade. It is a goodbye to the stage. It's full of great technology, the highest end possible. It's a very dynamic show, more dynamic than ever before, and no one's seen me in this light before. It's gonna rock, that's for sure. It'll be something nobody's ever seen before from me." She promised it will be "a whole new look, a whole new production entirely" than her Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace. 

"I'm in a good spirit for it," said Twain, who overcame some major vocal problems several years ago and now does hour-and-a-half warm-ups to get ready for her shows. "For the last two years in Las Vegas the fans have been coming to me, so I just feel real pumped to get out there and go to their towns and bring them this whole new show and I guess, this big sign-off, this big farewell."

Twain will be touring steady until Aug. 23, then breaks before resuming Sept. 12 in Spokane, Wash., wrapping Oct. 11 in Toronto.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/6575898/shania-twain-rock-this-country-tour-new-music



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Shania Twain could share new music during PPL Center stop in Allentown

By Matt Smith | For lehighvalleylive.com | June 01, 2015 at 7:40 AM

Shania Twain kicks off her first North American tour in 11 years on Friday, and she brings with her a catalog of music that has gone on to sell more than 75 million albums.

That includes "Come On Over," released in 1997, which spawned six singles to reach the U.S. Billboard top 40 singles charts as it became the best-selling album released by a female artist.

It's quite an impressive musical legacy the 49-year-old singer has made for herself. But with her return to the large arenas on what she is calling her final tour, it will surely bring with it a demand for something new to fill the gap left since her last studio release, 2002's "Up!"

With a new album in the works, the Lehigh Valley might be among one of the few stops to hear some of that material during the Rock This Country tour when the final leg swings through Oct. 2 at the PPL Center in Allentown.

"I'm dying to do it," Twain said during a conference call with reporters. "If the album progresses quickly enough and the timing works out, then I might very well just put one or two songs in closer to the end of the tour. It would bum me out to not do some of those songs live."

The focus on writing and recording music is strong within the singer as she seems intent to put the touring life behind her once she takes this last opportunity to reunite with her fans.

"I miss making records, Twain says. "I haven't made enough records in my life and in my career. I've done a lot more live performing than I have recording."

Twain had hoped to have an album of new music completed before the start of the tour. But with the planning of tours and albums needing to happen far in advance, things didn't come together the way she had hoped.

"The timing of the tour was decided on not leaving too much of a gap from when my residency finished in December," Twain says. "At the same time, I was hoping that my album would be further along by the time I finished my residency. It was just one of those things where the timing didn't work out very well."

What this means is that Twain will be recording her new album while on tour.

"I'll have a very portable set-up and I just sing and record my vocals," Twain says. "It's how I do my demos and you can be electronically connected with your producer wherever they are. And the producers will come out to me as well while I'm touring and we'll just poke away at it like that. There's just various ways to do this now that is pretty efficient, very effective."

It will take efficiency to juggle the next five months of touring with recording what sounds like a large amount of material that's been gathering in the 13 years since the release of her last album. According to Twain, she has been writing music ever since.

"I never stopped writing, so I have been writing all the time," Twain says. "It's a creative outlet that I would do whether I was touring or not, or recording or not. Why I didn't record anything is primarily because my voice just wasn't there. I wasn't sure I was ever going to sing again. So I was writing music but I didn't know what to do with it."

The uncertainty in her voice references her battle with vocal dysphonia, which is not a singing condition but an impairment in the ability to produce voice sounds using the vocal organs.

Twain's voice has recovered through years of therapy and was put to the test during a two-year residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. That gig wrapped up in December.

There are still many unknowns as to what Shania Twain will produce musically as she approaches songwriting and recording on her own for the first time. Her last three albums were all headed by producer and ex-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange -- and all went on to sell 10 million units in the United States.

"I'm leaning towards wanting the music to sound more organic than my previous stuff," Twain says. "Less slick maybe in that sense -- a really live feel to things and with a contemporary edge to everything."

One thing for sure, there will be a more personal touch to her new album whenever it comes out.

"I think there are going to be a lot of unexpected elements to the music for sure because I am writing it all myself," Twain says. "Lyrically, I'm still doing the self-reflection and writing in that vein. I'm just different now and I've lived a lot of different things since then, so the stories and the themes will be obviously different and will reflect how I've evolved.

"It's a very personalized songwriting and therapeutic process for me. I'm pouring my heart out in the music."

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/music/index.ssf/2015/06/shania_twain_could_share_new_m.html



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Shania Twain could share new music during PPL Center stop in Allentown

By Matt Smith | For lehighvalleylive.com | June 01, 2015 at 7:40 AM

Shania Twain kicks off her first North American tour in 11 years on Friday, and she brings with her a catalog of music that has gone on to sell more than 75 million albums.

That includes "Come On Over," released in 1997, which spawned six singles to reach the U.S. Billboard top 40 singles charts as it became the best-selling album released by a female artist.

It's quite an impressive musical legacy the 49-year-old singer has made for herself. But with her return to the large arenas on what she is calling her final tour, it will surely bring with it a demand for something new to fill the gap left since her last studio release, 2002's "Up!"

With a new album in the works, the Lehigh Valley might be among one of the few stops to hear some of that material during the Rock This Country tour when the final leg swings through Oct. 2 at the PPL Center in Allentown.

"I'm dying to do it," Twain said during a conference call with reporters. "If the album progresses quickly enough and the timing works out, then I might very well just put one or two songs in closer to the end of the tour. It would bum me out to not do some of those songs live."

The focus on writing and recording music is strong within the singer as she seems intent to put the touring life behind her once she takes this last opportunity to reunite with her fans.

"I miss making records, Twain says. "I haven't made enough records in my life and in my career. I've done a lot more live performing than I have recording."

Twain had hoped to have an album of new music completed before the start of the tour. But with the planning of tours and albums needing to happen far in advance, things didn't come together the way she had hoped.

"The timing of the tour was decided on not leaving too much of a gap from when my residency finished in December," Twain says. "At the same time, I was hoping that my album would be further along by the time I finished my residency. It was just one of those things where the timing didn't work out very well."

What this means is that Twain will be recording her new album while on tour.

"I'll have a very portable set-up and I just sing and record my vocals," Twain says. "It's how I do my demos and you can be electronically connected with your producer wherever they are. And the producers will come out to me as well while I'm touring and we'll just poke away at it like that. There's just various ways to do this now that is pretty efficient, very effective."

It will take efficiency to juggle the next five months of touring with recording what sounds like a large amount of material that's been gathering in the 13 years since the release of her last album. According to Twain, she has been writing music ever since.

"I never stopped writing, so I have been writing all the time," Twain says. "It's a creative outlet that I would do whether I was touring or not, or recording or not. Why I didn't record anything is primarily because my voice just wasn't there. I wasn't sure I was ever going to sing again. So I was writing music but I didn't know what to do with it."

The uncertainty in her voice references her battle with vocal dysphonia, which is not a singing condition but an impairment in the ability to produce voice sounds using the vocal organs.

Twain's voice has recovered through years of therapy and was put to the test during a two-year residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. That gig wrapped up in December.

There are still many unknowns as to what Shania Twain will produce musically as she approaches songwriting and recording on her own for the first time. Her last three albums were all headed by producer and ex-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange -- and all went on to sell 10 million units in the United States.

"I'm leaning towards wanting the music to sound more organic than my previous stuff," Twain says. "Less slick maybe in that sense -- a really live feel to things and with a contemporary edge to everything."

One thing for sure, there will be a more personal touch to her new album whenever it comes out.

"I think there are going to be a lot of unexpected elements to the music for sure because I am writing it all myself," Twain says. "Lyrically, I'm still doing the self-reflection and writing in that vein. I'm just different now and I've lived a lot of different things since then, so the stories and the themes will be obviously different and will reflect how I've evolved.

"It's a very personalized songwriting and therapeutic process for me. I'm pouring my heart out in the music."

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/music/index.ssf/2015/06/shania_twain_could_share_new_m.html


Hi,

I hope that she will do some of the new stuff but she has to do it on all the tour.  I think she should have at least one song that is ready by the time it starts...not fair to only do it on the later dates...this is her last tour and live performance.  How is that she says she wants to perform her new stuff live and she has said this is her last live performances and tour???

Just thinking out loud

Warmest regards as always,

Tonto

 



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It's pretty obvious Shania has totally lost confidence of her ability to make great music, hence she keep saying over and over again "Album is almost ready" but no, I know she won't release any new album soon and if yes, I'll know miracles do exist.
I love "Today is your day" don't she know any Album she pulls out will achieve much success? She always wrote great music! She must- to go for it! waiting has been too long!.

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Shania Twain comes to New Jersey area on June 30, July 1 and 7

By Jim Beckerman | The Record | June 29, 2015, 1:21 AM

WHAT: Shania Twain, "Rock This Country Tour," with Gavin DeGraw.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Madison Square Garden), Wednesday (Nassau Coliseum), July 7 (Prudential Center).

WHERE: Madison Square Garden, 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, Manhattan; Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale, N.Y.; Prudential Center, 165 Mulberry Street, Newark. ticketmaster.com.

HOW MUCH: $50.50 to $151.00 ($49 to $149 at Nassau Coliseum).

What to bring on a long trip?

You or I might consider a paperback book. Shania Twain has a better idea.

"On one of my tours I took my horse with me," Twain says. "This was very unique, and took a bit of planning, but it was my way of getting physical exercise and getting out and seeing the landscape. And I love my horses."

Twain is not, she says, bringing her horse with her on her current "Rock This Country Tour," which has area dates on Tuesday (Madison Square Garden), Wednesday (Nassau Coliseum) and July 7 (Newark’s Prudential Center). But she will be bringing plenty of her hits, including — based on shows so far — songs like "That Don’t Impress Me Much," "From This Moment On," and "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?"

This is the third concert tour for the Canadian country pop star, and her last hurrah as a touring artist, she says. After the "Rock This Country Tour" folds its tent in October, she’ll devote her time to recording (her fifth studio album is due out after the tour wraps), and writing songs for others.

"It’s certainly not my retirement from music," she says. "I’ll be doing music, I’m sure, until the day I die. I love music too much. The performance side of it, I feel, is a phase in my life. I’ve been doing it for so long. I’m 50 this year; I’ve been on stage since I was 8 years old. And I’ve really put in my fair share of performances. And feeling the time is just right now to do other things musically. I want to write more. I want to make lots more records … And I want to write songs for other artists, other artists that are coming up, and I want to sit back and enjoy them having their moment on stage and being proud that I’m part of their success."

The five-time Grammy winner is coming off of a two-year stint as an exclusive artist at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. But that, in turn, was coming off of a difficult eight-year-patch where she effectively retired from the stage and was nowhere to be seen.

In point of fact, she was in Switzerland. And what actually happened, as she revealed in 2011, is that her voice had begun to give way.

"It was very, very scary," she says. "It went beyond not being able to perform. It certainly went beyond concerns for my career or not having a career as a singer. It was a part of me that I was losing, like losing a hand or something. I was going through a grieving process. I really thought I had lost my voice, the voice that I knew and the voice I once had. It was very scary and something I was having a terrible time coming to terms with."

A clinic in Nashville discovered lesions on her vocal chords, which proved to be treatable, with rehabilitative therapy.

"Before I gave up on it completely, luckily I found the courage to tackle it and take it on," she says.

She’ll certainly be going full-throttle in her new tour — her first in 11 years — which includes plenty of pyrotechnics and costume changes. But she also, she says, incorporates lessons in intimacy she learned during her two-year Vegas stint in a relatively small room. Whereas the three metro-area venues she’ll be playing in the coming days each seat about 20,000, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, belying its name, seats a somewhat less-colossal 4,100. A great experience, she says.

"The audiences there were very close to the stage," she says. "That’s one of the luxuries I enjoyed, because I love seeing people up close and to touch the people and mingle with them. It was really cool to be able to do so much of that there … It’s something I’m going to take with me on the tour, even though it won’t be as easy to do because of the scale of the rooms and so on. That’s been built into the production, to be able to do that."

She even finds room, in the middle of the "Rock This Country Tour," for a short acoustic set. But the main thrust of this farewell tour, she says, is the hits.

She may consider sneaking in a cut or two from her upcoming album toward the end of the run, she says (she’ll be working on it during her downtime between performances). But essentially, this is a best-of show.

"I don’t want to bore people with songs they don’t know," she says. "I know myself [that] when I go to a concert I want to hear the songs I know, and that I’m familiar with."

Bottom line, she wants to leave everyone with a great memory. Because even though she won’t have her horse with her this time, she will — in effect — be riding off into the sunset.

"The reason for this tour is just to say goodbye to the stage on a high, with my friends, with my fans," she says.

http://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/celebrities/shania-twain-comes-to-area-on-june-30-july-1-and-7-1.1364946



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