July 2009:  "Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away."  In stores and on-line now.  Buy it here and get it autographed.



Lots of shows are in the works including tours all over the US, Canada and Europe.  All confirmed shows and details for 2009 can be found on the official tour page.

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Check out this great new feature in the Austin American-Statesman.



Ringtones?  We got 'em . . .  MySpace, FaceBook, yeah we're up there somewhere, but we draw the line at Twitter (for now).




Check out Slaid's mystery link of the week . . . (and last week's link) . . . (and the week before) . . .




For Slaid Cleaves fans who have been waiting nearly a decade for the Maine native to match the penetrating and perceptive songwriting found on his seminal 2000 release "Broke Down," the wait is over. His soon-to-be-released "Everything You Love Will be Taken Away" delivers some of his strongest material to date. --Dave Madeloni, Brattleboro Reformer


For all of his command of song craft, Cleaves would still be working as a pharmaceutical guinea pig were it not for his warm, gently burred tenor. He phrases like a grifter trying to croon his low-down past away — and writes like he knows he never will. When his new folkie peers see angels over every other barista's shoulder, Cleaves sees through sentiment. "I've been chasing grace but grace ain't so easily found," he sings on "One Good Year," just one of many subtle, momentary stays against the dark side of his heart. That heart doesn't bleed easily — but when it does, it bleeds true.  -- Roy Kasten, River Front Times, St Louis