Multi-talented, renaissance rock ‘n’ roller DAVE STEWART will release his latest album LUCKY NUMBERS in Australia on September 27 via Kobalt Label Services (his first for the label).

The album’s first single “Every Single Night” featuring guest vocalist Martina McBride is released on September 16. A lyric video for “Every Single Night” can be seen here.

LUCKY NUMBERS is the third album in three years for the self-declared The Ringmaster General after last year’s release of the same name and 2011’s The Blackbird Diaries which was supported by a national tour with Stevie Nicks.

For LUCKY NUMBERS, the singer, songwriter and guitarist assembled the same team of Nashville’s finest who played on the previous two, though instead of working in co-producer/engineer John McBride’s Nashville studio, STEWART shifted the recording sessions to a boat in the South Pacific.

“I wanted to do something a little different this time, so I invited the band to join me on an adventure to the South Pacific,” says Dave who also co-produced the album. “Where we could record with nobody else around, floating around on the sea. It was like parachuting into Oz. We were fish out of water. We were out 12 days, but we were actually only sober enough to record for three or four.”

Like the previous two albums, LUCKY NUMBERS combines STEWART’s ‘60s British rock sensibilities growing up in the northeast of England with the veteran Nashville country musicians’ southern blues. Players on LUCKY NUMBERS include guitarist Tom Bukovac, drummer Chad Cromwell, bassist Michael Rhodes, pianist Mike Rojas, pedal steel guitarist Dan Dugmore joined by multi-instrumentalist Kieran Kiely, who played accordion, flute and, most notably, the Irish bodhrán drum that can be heard in the opening notes of the first single, “Every Single Night.” The list of guest stars includes singers Martina McBride (“Every Single Night”), Karen Elson (“Nashville Snow”), Australian pop diva Vanessa Amorosi (“What’s Wrong With Me”), Broadway star Laura Michelle Kelly and violinist Ann Marie Calhoun (the soaring cinematic set-piece, “You and I”) and a gospel choir headed by Lynn Mabry (“Drugs Taught Me a Lesson,” “What’s Wrong With Me”).

“The two worlds collide in the most beautiful way,” says STEWART. “I’m singing one thing in my mind, and they’re playing something completely different, but it works.”

The LUCKY NUMBERS track listing is as follows:

Every Single Night

Drugs Taught Me A Lesson

How To Ruin A Romance

What's Wrong With Me

Satellite

Why Can't We Be Friends

You and I

Nashville Snow

Never Met A Woman Like You

One Step Too Far

Lucky Numbers

Praise for DAVE STEWART’s 2012 album

THE RINGMASTER GENERAL:

“…a terrific songwriter, guitarist and producer and surrounds himself with great players and vocalists such as Alison Krauss, Joss Stone, Jessie Baylin and Diane Birch. Stewart reveals just enough of the love-perplexed man behind the curtain to keep us entranced.”

--Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY, September 4, 2012

“A love letter to American roots music, it is steeped in blues, folk and country…”

--AdrianThrills, DAILY MAIL (U.K.), August 9, 2012

“Both albums [including The Blackbird Diaries] fuse country, rock, blues, bluegrass and R&B, and the results are quirky, soul-stirring and thoroughly engrossing.”

--Joe Bosso, MUSICRADAR.COM, August 13, 2012

“…a record bursting with passion, personality and variety…. Dave Stewart, both ringmaster and general, takes a powerful bow.”

--MXDWN.COM, September 10th, 2012

About DAVE STEWART:

“An explosive musician, deft guitar player, innately recognizes the genius in other people and puts it into play without being manipulative.” - Bob Dylan

"Jack of All Trades Master of All of Them" - The Sunday Times

“He’s the musician’s musician.” – Rolling Stone