June 2008: 

Slaid Cleaves begins the annual summer tour of the Northeast this month with a dozen shows in and around New York, Pennsylvania and Southern New England.  Next month:  Northern New England and a little time off in Vacationland.  Check out the calendar for all the grisly details . . .

Slaid has been plugging away on a new batch of songs over the past year and has been recording these past few months with Gurf Morlix.  Hard to Believe is the working title of the new CD; release date is to be determined . . .

Don't miss Slaid and the gang when they come to your town . . .

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Slaid's latest recording "Unsung" is available at cool record stores, on line, and right here at slaid.com.  Unsung is a special project for Slaid, a collection of songs by admired friends and colleagues including Melvern Taylor, Michael O'Connor and Graham Weber and co-produced by Slaid's old buddy, Rod Picott 

Slaid Cleaves is known as a "songwriter's songwriter," which is usually a polite way of saying "he can't sing." But there's no need for decorum with the Maine-born, Texas-based troubadour: For all of his command of song craft, Cleaves would still be working as a pharmaceutical guinea pig were it not for his warm, gently burred tenor. He phrases like a grifter trying to croon his low-down past away — and writes like he knows he never will. When his new folkie peers see angels over every other barista's shoulder, Cleaves sees through sentiment. "I've been chasing grace but grace ain't so easily found," he sings on "One Good Year," just one of many subtle, momentary stays against the dark side of his heart. That heart doesn't bleed easily — but when it does, it bleeds true.  

--- Roy Kasten, River Front Times, St Louis, May 14, 2008: