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Ween returns to road riding 'Cucaracha'
Quirky alt-rock duo Ween return to the road this fall for a few dates as they tune up their road schedule before the October release of their first album in four years.
Dean and Gene Ween--a.k.a. Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman--will kick things off Oct. 16 in Bloomington, IN, with the band set to hit 10 cities through early November, and another pair of New York City dates on the schedule for early December. All dates are shown below.
"La Cucaracha," the duo's new studio album, is due to hit stores Oct. 23. The set features a first for the Ween "brothers"--horn music, via a guest appearance by saxophonist David Sanborn.
"We vowed never, ever, ever, would there be horns on a Ween album," Dean Ween said in a press statement of Sanborn's appearance on the album. "But there has always been one provision to this rule, and that was we would only use horns if we could get David Sanborn to play some sexy saxophone on a Ween tune. We finally wrote a song worthy of him, contacted his manager and it turns out he was a Ween fan and immediately agreed to do it."
Recorded "in a rented, moldy 200 year old farmhouse in our hometown of New Hope, PA," according to Dean, "La Cucaracha" is the pair's first studio release since 2003's "Quebec."
