Sara Bareilles is back.
The 46-year-old “Love Song” singer-songwriter returned with several massive announcements on Wednesday (June 3) alongside the release of “Home,” the first song from her seventh studio album Good Grief, which is being released on August 28.
This fall, she’ll embark on the Good Grief Tour, promoted by Live Nation. Check out how to buy tickets and see all the tour dates below.
There’s also a documentary on the way!
The upcoming album, her first since 2019’s Amidst the Chaos, is a 14-track collection “reckoning with loss, yet even its darkest moments are threaded with an insistent, luminous pull toward hope,” per the official release.
“This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world. My deepest hope is that Good Grief provides some kind of comfort or catharsis.” – Sara Bareilles
What We Know About Sara Bareilles’ New Album, Good Grief
Good Grief spans remarkable thematic ground, all of it rooted in Bareilles’ own experience—from intimate tributes to lost friends, to defiant anthems for women’s rights, to unexpected moments of lightness found in the darkest of times. Produced by Bareilles herself, the album was mostly recorded over six days at Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, NY, alongside a band of longtime collaborators: drummer Charley Drayton, guitarist Butterfly Boucher, keyboardist Misty Boyce, bassist Solomon Dorsey, multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose and co-producer, recording engineer and mixer Jonathan Low. Later sessions took place alongside co-producer Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studios in the Hudson Valley, NY, with assists from engineer and mixer Bella Blasko. The collection also features contributions from Brandi Carlile, Andrea Gibson, Ingrid Michaelson, Joe Tippett and Megan Falley.
In addition to the album, Sara is also releasing a documentary set to debut during Tribeca Film Festival this week.
What We Know About Sara Bareilles: Good Grief
The making of the album was captured in the documentary, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief, which will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival this week. Directed by Josh Alexander and produced by Daniel J. Chalfen, the film offers an intimate, unfiltered portrait of Bareilles’ return to the recording studio with close friends for the first time in seven years—a cinematic document of her creative process that becomes a profoundly personal, ultimately hopeful meditation on loss, grief and the power of music to heal. A masterclass in creativity, community and vulnerability, the documentary serves as a reminder of music’s extraordinary power to connect us to ourselves and to each other.
What Is the Meaning of Sara Bareilles’ “Home”?
Her new song “Home” was inspired by Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert‘s emotional discussion about grief.
“I was walking around. I live in Brooklyn, I was walking around listening to the podcast, and I was so moved by the story Stephen shared about losing his father and his brother,” she told Anderson on All There Is.
If you haven’t heard it before, Anderson and Stephen shared an incredibly emotional exchange about their respective losses: Stephen‘s father and two brothers were killed in a plane crash when he was 10, and Anderson‘s father during open-heart surgery when he was 10, followed by the loss of his brother to suicide and his mother in 2019.
“Your connection in that conversation, I found it to be really inspiring. I came home and started writing a song about it,” she revealed.
She even joked that her song is “pretty much plagiarism” from the conversation.
“For me, on this Earth, our work is to find ways to be bold enough to let other people see us. Telling stories is such an important part of that,” she added.
Listen to “Home”…
Read the lyrics to “Home”…
Good Grief Tracklisting
1. Home
2. Just a Kid
3. Still Crying
4. A Love Story
5. Hands Off My Body
6. Ladies In A Line
7. Heartland
8. Capsize Me
9. Nervous Breakdown
10. Idiot Heart
11. Say Leave
12. Salt Then Sour Then Sweet (feat. Brandi Carlile)
13. Forever
14. Wind Is the Weather
How to Buy Sara Bareilles Good Grief Tour Tickets
ARTIST PRESALE: To participate in the Sara Bareilles artist presale on Monday, June 8 at 12 P.M. local time you must sign up at sarabmusic.com.
CITI: Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Monday, June 8 at 10 A.M local time until Tuesday, June 9 at 10 P.M. local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.
VERIZON: Verizon will offer customers an exclusive presale for the Sara Bareilles Good Grief Tour in the U.S – no strings attached, simply for being a Verizon customer. The presale for select shows runs from Monday, June 8 at 10 A.M local time to Tuesday, June 9 at 10 P.M local time. Visit myAccess in the My Verizon app for more details. Learn more about Verizon Access here.
Good Grief Tour Dates
September 9—Boston, MA—MGM Music Hall at Fenway
September 12—Washington, D.C.—The Anthem
September 15—Toronto, ON—Massey Hall
September 18—New York, NY—Radio City Music Hall
September 21—Philadelphia, PA—The Met
September 24—Atlanta, GA—Fox Theatre
September 25—Cincinnati, OH—Taft Theatre
September 27—Chicago, IL—Chicago Theatre
September 30—Minneapolis, MN—Orpheum Theatre
October 2—St. Louis, MO—Stifel Theatre
October 4—Denver, CO—Bellco Theatre
October 6—Austin, TX—Bass Concert Hall
October 7—Houston, TX—The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
October 12—Los Angeles, CA—Dolby Theatre
October 13—Los Angeles, CA—Dolby Theatre
October 16—San Francisco, CA—Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
October 19—Seattle, WA—The Paramount Theatre
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