Two weeks after the Wallflowers release their fourth album, Red Letter Days (due November 5th), the group will begin a fourteen-date tour in support of the album. The Red Letter Days Tour will be the Wallflowers' first headlining trek in two years; last year, the band served as the opener for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Red Letter Days will be the Wallflowers' first release since 2000's Breach, which was certified Gold (for sales of 500,000 copies in the U.S.), far short of the quadruple-platinum (3 million) mark of its predecessor, 1996's Bringing Down the Horse.

Frontman Jakob Dylan told Rolling Stone that the Wallflowers would like to repeat the success of Horse, but that the band hasn't changed its approach for Red Letter Days. "It's a different time now, and we do what we do," he said. "I'm not about to change the tuning on my guitar or grow a certain style of facial hair or don a hockey jersey just to sell records. Still, anyone who says they don't care about how their album is doing is lying."

Initial copies of Red Letter Days will be padded with a pair of bonus tracks: a cover of Elvis Costello and the Attractions' "What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding" (penned by Nick Lowe) and "Empire of My Mind," which serves as the theme song to the television series The Guardian.

Ours will serve as the opening act on the tour. Their second album, Precious, is due November 5th.

Wallflowers tour dates:

11/20: Denver, CO, Gothic Theater
11/22: Minneapolis, Quest Club
11/23: Chicago, House of Blues
11/24: Milwaukee, The Rave
11/26: Indianapolis, Murat Egyptian Room
11/27: Detroit, St. Andrews Hall
11/29: Toronto, Phoenix Concert Theater
11/30: Burlington, VT, Higher Ground
12/1: Sea Bright, NJ, Tradewinds
12/2: Boston, Avalon
12/3: Hartford, CT, Webster Theater
12/5: New York, Irving Plaza
12/6: Philadelphia, Theater of Living Arts
12/7: Washington, DC, 9:30 Club

ANDREW DANSBY
(October 7, 2002)