The album also will mark the Tony and Grammy Award winner's first new album featuring original music since 2019.
By
Meg Masseron
October 06, 2023
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Michaelah Reynolds
Tony and Grammy Award winner Leslie Odom, Jr., currently starring in and co-producing Broadway's Purlie Victorious, will release his fifth studio album, When A Crooner Dies, November 17 through BMG. The release marks Odom's first new album of original music since 2019. When a Crooner Dies will feature 10 newly penned songs that are described as Odom's "most personal music to date."
Odom has unveiled his first song off of the album, "Show Me." Visit here to stream it. The full track list of the album is as follows:
Loved
Show Me
Holding on to Us
Take Me As I Am
Only Heaven
The Morning
Surrender
Won't Hold Back
GO
Everything
Odom's album release coincides with his return to Broadway in Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, which opened September 27 at the Music Box Theatre.
To pre-save or pre-order When A Crooner Dies, visit here.
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Kara Young, Heather Alicia Simms, Leslie Odom, Jr., Vanessa Bell Calloway, Billy Eugene Jones, and Noah Robbins in Purlie Victorious
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Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kara Young in Purlie Victorious
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Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kara Young in Purlie Victorious
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Jay O. Sanders, Billy Eugene Jones, Kara Young, and Leslie Odom, Jr. in Purlie Victorious
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Noah Robbins and Vanessa Bell Calloway in Purlie Victorious