Beth Hart

For those of a similar name, see Elizabeth Hart (disambiguation).

Beth Hart (born January 24, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter and musician from Los Angeles,
California, United States. She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single "LA Song (Out of This Town)"
from her second album Screamin' for My Supper. The
single was a number one hit in New Zealand, as well as
reaching top 5 on the US Adult Contemporary and number 7 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 Chart. Subsequent
albums namely Seesaw and Live In Amsterdam by Beth
Hart and Joe Bonamassa, achieved number 1 status on the
Billboard Blues Album Chart. Harts release Bang Bang
Boom Boom rose to number 3 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, as well as the album Don't Explain by Hart
and Bonamassa. The album Seesaw rose to number 8 on
the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart. Hart has
had two number 1 singles in Denmark As Good As It
Gets and Learning To Live, as well a platinum selling
album, Leave The Light On.

Her next album, Screamin' for My Supper (Atlantic,

1999), featured "LA Song (Out of This Town)", a #1 hit
in New Zealand and a top 5 Adult Contemporary chart
hit. At the same time, Hart was singing the lead role in
Love, Janis, an o-Broadway musical based on Joplins
letters home to her mother. The song also aired during
Episode 17 of the 10th and nal season of Beverly Hills,
90210.[2]

Leave the Light On

Harts Leave the Light On was released in 2003. The single Learning To Live was a number 1 hit in Denmark,
as well a platinum selling album. Learning to Live was
also used as the theme song to Losing It With Jillian on
NBC.

Harts rst album with Bonamassa, Don't Explain, went

gold in The Netherlands. In 2014 Hart was nominated for
a Grammy Award for Seesaw and she was also nominated
for a Blues Music Award in the category 'Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist'.

Screamin' for My Supper: Career

breakthrough

Live At Paradiso

Early career

While playing the Los Angeles clubs, she enlisted bassist

Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury. In 1993, Hart
appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search several times, ultimately winning the Female Vocalist competition for that
season. Beth Hart and the Ocean of Souls was recorded in
1993. It includes Am I the One (which later appeared
on her rst ocial record Immortal) and a pop-rock
cover of the Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Immortal

Hart performing at San Diego Indie Music Fest, March 20, 2008

The rst released album with the Beth Hart Band[1] was
called Immortal (Atlantic, 1996) and featured the single
God Bless You. It also included Am I The One, a
fan favorite that ended up on her rst DVD that was released in 2005, which fans still speak about to this day, in
particular that performance of Am I The One.

Hart followed this up with her live album Live at Paradiso in 2005, which was recorded in Paradiso, a former
church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and released both
as a CD and a DVD. It featured a variety of Harts self
written songs and the cover "Whole Lotta Love" by "Led
Zeppelin".
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37 Days

11 Live In Amsterdam

Her fourth solo studio album 37 Days was released in

Europe in July 2007. It produced the number 1 single
in Denmark As Good As It Gets. 37 Days was also
released as a DVD.

My California

A fth solo studio album My California was released in

2010. Beth Hart delivered music to the end-scene of the
last episode of Californication season 6, with the titel song
of this record My California,.[3] On August 23, 2012,
her song Take It Easy on Me from My California was
used in the rst episode of the 8th series of the BBC TV
drama Waterloo Road. On July 31, 2012, she released
her the album My California in the United States. On
the same date, she released an EP titled Introducing Beth
Hart.

Don't Explain

In 2011, Beth Hart collaborated with Joe Bonamassa

on their rst co-release Don't Explain. An album of
blues classics. The album reached number 3 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. It also went gold in The
Netherlands.[4]

Bang Bang Boom Boom

Harts second live DVD, was also recorded in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, this time at the Royal Carr Theatre. Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa went on a mini European tour of 5 show (Bergen, Norway - London, UK Antwerp, Belgium - Amsterdam, Netherlands), of which
two at the Carr Theatre. Both nights were recorded and
released on the DVD/LP/CD Live In Amsterdam in
2014.

12 Better Than Home

Harts 7th solo studio album Better Than Home, was released on April 13 in Europe and April 14 in USA. The
single Mechanical Heart is charting #1 in the "iTunes"
Blues song list.[6] The album entered the album charts in
the Netherlands at number 1. In the USA the album entered both the Billboard Blues Charts and iTunes Blues
Charts at #1. The album also charted in other countries:
number 11 in Germany and 33 in the UK, for example.
On January 7, 2016, Beth Hart and Je Beck released
the single Tell Her You Belong To Me worldwide on
iTunes,[7] after performing the song live on Jools Annual
Hootenanny on 2015/2016 on BBC Two. They also performed "Nutbush City Limits" on that show.

13 New album
Hart is currently working on her 8th solo studio album.
Released date is not yet published.

14 Other collaborations

Harts release Bang Bang Boom Boom (2012) rose to

number 3 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart Hart. She
worked with producer Kevin Shirley on this, who she
worked on for the rst time on the album Don't Album.
The album was released the following year in the United
States.

10 Seesaw:
album

Grammy Nominated

In 2013, the duo Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa released

Seesaw, again produced by Kevin Shirley. The album rose
to number 8 on the Billboard Top Independent Album
Chart. In 2014 Hart was nominated for a Grammy Award
for Seesaw and she was also nominated for a Blues Music
Award in the category 'Best Contemporary Blues Female
Artist'.[5]

Hart at Notodden Blues Festival, Norway 2009

Hart collaborated on a song with Slash called Mother

Maria, released on the iTunes version of Slashs solo album, Slash.

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In 2011, she worked with Joe Bonamassa]], rst provid- 19 Discography
ing vocals for the track No Love on the Street on his
album Dust Bowl (March 2011), and on a 2011 album of Main article: Beth Hart discography
blues classics, entitled Don't Explain. The duo released
Seesaw in 2013.
Hart collaborated with Born on the single It Hurts, released in February 2012.
After touring with Je Beck in 2006 through the United
States she appeared with him again in December 2012, at
the Kennedy Center Opera House, along with a group of
blues/rock musicians, performing "I'd Rather Go Blind"
in tribute to Buddy Guy, who received a 2012 Kennedy
Center Honor for his lifetime of contributions to American culture. This performance led to the collaboration
with Buddy Guy, he recorded the song What You Gonna
Do About Me with Beth Hart for his album Rhythm &
Blues.
In 2014, she performed with Je Beck during his Australian tour as a supporting act, joining him on stage during his set.

1993: Beth Hart and the Ocean of Souls

1996: Immortal
1999: Screamin' for My Supper
2003: Leave the Light On
2005: Live At Paradiso
2007: 37 Days
2010: My California
2011: Don't Explain with Joe Bonamassa
2012: Bang Bang Boom Boom
2013: Seesaw with Joe Bonamassa
2014: Live in Amsterdam with Joe Bonamassa
2015: Better Than Home

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Grammy Award nominations

In 2014 Hart was nominated for a Grammy Award for

Seesaw.[8]

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Blues Award nominations

In 2014, she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award

in the 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year'
category.[9] In 2015, she got nominated again for the
Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Female
Artist of the Year' category.[10]

20 References
[1] Ankeny, Jason. Biography: Beth Hart. Allmusic. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
[2] Beverly Hills 90210 - Season 10, Episode 17: Doc Martin - TV.com. TV.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6
January 2015.
[3] Californication Season 6 Final Episode 12 - Beth Hart My California (nal song)". YouTube. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
[4] Don't Explain Gold. cameratravel.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
[5] 2016 Blues Music Awards Nominees. Blues.about.com.
Retrieved 2014-05-16.

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Films

Hart is one of the narrators for the 2015 documentary lm

Unity.[11]

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Personal life & band

[6] US Blues Songs Top 40 Chart. iTunesCharts.net. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

[7] Tell Her You Belong to Me (with Je Beck) - Single
by Beth Hart on iTunes. Itunes.apple.com. 2016-01-07.
Retrieved 2016-02-06.
[8] 2016 The Drop: Beth Hart GRAMMY Museum. grammymuseum.org. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
[9] 2014 Blues Music Awards Nominees and Winners.
Blues.about.com. Retrieved 2014-05-16.

Hart is married to her road manager Scott Guetzkow,[12]

and currently resides in Los Angeles. Her band[13] in- [10] 2016 Blues Music Awards Nominees. Blues.about.com.
Retrieved 2014-05-16.
cludes lead guitarist Jon Nichols, bassist Bob Marinelli,
drummer Bill Ransom, and guitarist P.J. Barth. Her man- [11] Dave McNary (April 22, 2015). Documentary Unity
ager is David Wol. Her tour and production manager is
Set for Aug. 12 Release with 100 Star Narrators.
Variety. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
Bianca.[14] Beth has overcome drug addiction.[15]

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[12] Beth Hart Looks To The 'Light' (September 27, 2003).

Billboard.com archive. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
[13] Beth Hart Ocial Web Site | Ocial Website. Bethhart.com. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
[14] Mobile Production Monthly (PDF). Mobileproductionpro.com. 2012. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
[15] Dearmore, Kelly (4 January 2012). Beth Hart Talks Redemption, Addiction and Star Search. Dallas Observer.
Retrieved 26 June 2012. But the visions of gold records
were clouded by addiction and recklessness. Having used
drugs in one form or another since her teenage years

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