Though she's continued to live in her hometown of Los Angeles, Beth Hart hadn't toured or released an album of original material in the United States in 10 years until very recently--having worked the better part of the last decade in Europe and New Zealand. It was a self-imposed disconnect that eventually began to bother the 41-year-old singer/songwriter.

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