Los Angeles Times June 30, 2024

The album will be released in two parts- The Thorns: Side One (tracks 1-8) will be released June 12th, and The Roses: Side Two (tracks 9-16) will be released around a month later on July 17th.
The tracklist and release date for the album, got announced June 3rd 2024; a day before the lead single, Straight To Your Heart, got released. Later the same day, on June 4th, Ashton announced that he will be doing a live show to celebrate the album release, on July 18th a day after the full album comes out, in Los Angeles at The Belasco Theater.

Lateralize Records are immensely proud to announce the release of award-winning UK singer songwriter Jo Harrop’s superb new album, The Path Of A Tear.

One of the greatest stars of the rock & roll era, Elton John exploded like a supernova in the early 1970s and sustained a career that kept him at the top of the charts for the next five decades. He had a Billboard Top 40 hit single every year between 1970 and 1996, a sign that he knew how to both change with the times and mold the times to fit him. John's earliest records were part of the moody, introspective post-'60s singer/songwriter movement, but once he had a hit with "Your Song," the pianist revealed he could also craft Beatles-like pop and pound out rockers with equal aplomb. As "Rocket Man," "Crocodile Rock," "Daniel," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," and "Bennie and the Jets" – songs John wrote with his lifelong collaborator Bernie Taupin – climbed into the Top Ten on either side of the Atlantic, John was inescapable during the first half of the '70s. His versatility, combined with his effortless melodic skills, and flamboyant stage shows, became his calling cards, sustaining him through shifts in fame and fortune. Eventually, John reached outside of pop music, writing songs for Disney's The Lion King and collaborating with Tim Rice on Aida, yet he never abandoned the form: during the 2010s and 2020s, he balanced fashionable collaborations with emerging stars with albums that hearkened back to his moody records of the early '70s. In 2024, he joined the elite group of EGOT winners after earning an Emmy Award for his concert special Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.

Ben Goldberg is an American clarinet player and composer. In the early 1990s, Ben Goldberg performed alongside electric bassist Dan Seamans and percussionist Kenny Wollesen as the New Klezmer Trio. They went on to produce three albums and the free improvisation on "Masks and Faces" was described as having "kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music." Goldberg's musicality has influenced and inspired local musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The album will be released in two parts- The Thorns: Side One (tracks 1-8) will be released June 12th, and The Roses: Side Two (tracks 9-16) will be released around a month later on July 17th.
The tracklist and release date for the album, got announced June 3rd 2024; a day before the lead single, Straight To Your Heart, got released. Later the same day, on June 4th, Ashton announced that he will be doing a live show to celebrate the album release, on July 18th a day after the full album comes out, in Los Angeles at The Belasco Theater.

Lateralize Records are immensely proud to announce the release of award-winning UK singer songwriter Jo Harrop’s superb new album, The Path Of A Tear.