Ten years after Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam released their collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, the pair are finally preparing to perform it on the road as a unit. The musicians have announced The Joint Tour, a 2026 concert run that will serve as their first tour together. To accompany the news, they have also released an unreleased archival recording, “In a Black Out (Piano Version).”
Anniversary tours have become a regular occurrence across the touring business, but they almost always revisit records that spent years being played in front of audiences when they were brand new. This run is an exception to that standard pattern. Even though ten years have passed since the record came out, Leithauser and Rostam never organized a dedicated tour to support it at the time. The 2026 shows will give audiences their first opportunity to see the two musicians present the material as a collaborative live act, turning what looks on paper like a standard ten-year look back into an untested live venture.
Alongside the tour announcement, the pair pulled an alternate recording out of their vault. “In a Black Out (Piano Version)” presents the song without the layered production elements that shaped the familiar studio cut. Built instead around a spare, keyboard-led framework, this version strips the track down to its basic chord progressions and vocal cadence. The arrangement offers a direct look into the foundation of their writing sessions, showing how the skeleton of the song functioned before the final studio choices were applied to it.
Taking a record that was conceived strictly as a studio project and placing it in a concert setting creates a specific set of musical demands. Collaborative studio recordings tend to be built incrementally, leaning on fine details, calculated pacing, and multi-track layering worked out in private. Bringing those arrangements to a venue means translating isolated studio ideas into something direct and communal. Because the pair never took these songs out on an extended run during the initial album cycle, they will be discovering that live chemistry in front of ticket holders for the first time.
A ten-year gap inevitably shifts the relationship artists and audiences have with a piece of work. What began as a focused partnership between two songwriters has lingered over the last decade, and the arrival of an unreleased alternate take underlines how much of their shared history remains tied to those original sessions. With the piano version circulating and The Joint Tour scheduled for 2026, Leithauser and Rostam are finally giving the material a public stage life that never existed during its first run.
