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Beth Orton extends Comfort of Strangers tour

Beth Orton’s 2006 album Comfort of Strangers was the hastily pulled together result of her work of just one week with Sonic Youth collaborator Jim O’Rourke. The speedy turnover for the record came about after O’Rourke heard Orton play and demanded just five days to show he should be the one to produce the album. O’Rourke also appears on the album playing bass, piano and marimba. Orton plans to bring her acoustic tour to North America in support of the album and has just recently added more dates to the summer stint which kicks off in Boston. Throughout, Orton will...  read more