Chris Barron, singer/songwriter perhaps best known as lead vocalist for The Spin Doctors, hits the road for his ‘Pocket Ful Of Chris Tonite’ 2024 Spring Tour, with a local performance at The Hotel Cafe, 1623N. Cahuenga Blvd., Friday, May 24. Show: 7pm. Tickets: $30. Info: www.hotelcafe.com.
“Chris’s standout power lies in breaking down a song to its purest essence. He steps into the ring naked, nothing to hide, with the beatific wisdom of his poetry and a technique finely polished over thousands of performances.” – John Popper, Blues Traveler
Chris Barron is an accomplished guitar player and Grammy-nominated songwriter best known as the lead singer of Spin Doctors. He wrote the Billboard Top Ten hits, “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”. Spin Doctors just recorded a new record and hope to have it out Summer of 2025. Chris also released a solo album, Angels and One-Armed Jugglers, this year.
His solo performances weave songs and storytelling together with humor and humanity—all Chris Barron trademarks. “I think if I heard the guy from the Spin Doctors was doing a solo acoustic show I’d imagine a dude in a funny hat singing a song about a frog or something,” says a grinning Barron. “But while my show is pretty funny, it’s also soulful and poetic and the fact that I’m a very jaunty guitarist might be the thing that surprises people the most.” Barron plays nifty chords on a vintage Gibson, getting songs across with a mastery that comes from a lifetime starting on street corners and journeying through the ins and outs of stardom to the largest stages in the world. His solo acoustic interpretations of Spin Doctors hits combine with a command of songwriting, accomplished guitar playing, and quirky solo material to make a compelling show full of storytelling, virtuoso singing, and raw musical power that is compelling, poignant, extremely amusing, and utterly satisfying.
Barron has always loved making a song come alive with just a voice and a guitar, and he learned how to do it on street corners, by fountains, and in subways, while still a teenager just trying to make enough for his next meal as a street performer. “I’ve always had this enchantment with the dual ideas of being a badass lead singer/lyricist like Jim Morrison while also being a solitary acoustic singer-songwriter like Bob Dylan or Robert Johnson.”
In a world where many people don’t know what their purpose is, Chris Barron does. “I was put on this earth to pluck a guitar, sing my ass off, and wield the power song to take people out of this world for a while—and in so doing, take myself out of it as well.”
“Chris Barron is the best songwriter of his generation. Think Robert Johnson meets Paul Simon with the epic lyric sensibility of Bob Dylan.”
-Charles Kirby/Chuckiejabba
Chris Barron Solo Spin 2024 Spring Tour Itinerary
May 23 (Thu) MIM Phoenix AZ
May 24 (Fri) THE HOTEL CAFE Hollywood CA
May 30 (Thu) ELKTON MUSIC HALL Elkton MD
June 14 (Fri) (NEED VENUE) Youngstown NY
(Hollywood Calif) – dougdeutschPR