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Yes way, José. While you were busy blinking, six-string serenader José González went and added a whole bunch of dates to his upcoming tour in support of In Our Nature, out September 25 on Mute. Seems peregrination is in young José's nature.

The man still intends to trek across the States in late September/early October, with classical guitar virtuoso James Blackshaw (but not Savath & Savalas) in tow. Alas, now he'll have barely three days to explore the Mall of America in Minnesota before jetting off to the UK for another leg of shows (with Blackshaw once again)-- and he's already planning to return to this continent in late November.

Meanwhile, if there are two things America loves, it's football and television, which might go some way towards explaining the success of the "Friday Night Lights" TV program (spun off from the actually-pretty-great film of the same name). González lends "Storm" to the Friday Night Lights Original Television Soundtrack, which also boasts pump-up jams from the likes of Explosions in the Sky (who scored the original film as well), Spoon, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Iron and Wine with Calexico, Outkast, Chris Brokaw, and Drive-By Truckers.

The soundtrack is out now on Artists Addiction Records, aka the same label that saw fit to put the Hold Steady on the Nanny Diaries soundtrack.

Go long!:

08-21 New York, NY - Spiegeltent
08-26 Copenhagen, Denmark - Festival for Dreams
09-27 New York, NY - Gramercy Theater *
09-28 New York, NY - Gramercy Theater *
09-29 New York, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg #
09-30 Boston, MA - Paradise *
10-01 Philadelphia, PA - World Café *
10-02 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
10-04 Chicago, IL - Park West *
10-05 Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater !
10-07 Seattle, WA - Showbox !
10-08 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
10-09 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
10-10 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
10-12 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre *
10-13 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Café *
10-17 Cambridge, England - Cambridge Junction *
10-18 Bristol, England - Anson Rooms *
10-19 Warwick, England - Arts Centre
10-20 Brighton, England - Concorde 2 *
10-21 Nottingham, England - Rock City *
10-22 Leeds, England - Leeds City Varieties *
10-23 London, England - Union Chapel *
10-24 London, England - Union Chapel *
10-25 Manchester, England - Royal Northern College of Music *
10-26 Dublin, Ireland - Irish Museum of Modern Art
10-27 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Mandela Hall
10-28 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
11-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
11-29 Austin, TX - The Parish
12-01 Louisville, KY - 930 Listening Room
12-03 Bloomington, IN - Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
12-06 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox
12-07 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club

* with James Blackshaw
# with Meg Baird
! with Tiny Vipers