John Oates discusses new autobiography, summer tour

Musician signs books Saturday at A Cappella Books.

Two things you learn quickly about John Oates in his vivid new autobiography, “Change of Seasons”: He and Daryl Hall have never been officially billed as “Hall & Oates.” They’re Daryl Hall and John Oates. The public and the media altered their existence from two separate beings to one entity for the sake of brevity.

Also, as much as he and Hall are associated with Philadelphia — they did, after all, just host their first HoagieNation Festival at the city’s Festival Pier — he’s as much a Lower Manhattan Italian, a kid with acute memories of his grandmother’s Sunday gravy and the bustling heat of the city.

Oates will likely touch on those stories when he visits Atlanta on Saturday for a Q&A session with Mara Davis and a book signing at Taco Cowboy in Virginia-Highland.

He’s squeezed in a few of these appearances while on tour with Hall and ‘80s synth lords Tears for Fears. On Sunday, that crew will perform at Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth.

Oates, who permanently made Nashville home more than a year ago (he’s avidly supporting the Nashville Predators’ run for the Stanley Cup), chatted recently from that base to discuss the new book, his relationship with Hall and why a Las Vegas residency will never happen. I love that you’re touring with Tears for Fears this summer, but I’m also grateful that you had Sharon Jones with you last year, since it turned out to be her final tour.

I’m really glad we had the opportunity to play with Sharon. You wouldn’t believe what it took for her to do those shows.

CONTRIBUTED John Oates of the band Hall and Oates said he worked on his book “Change of Seasons” for about two years.