1/17/2020 Releases of Note

It looks to be a mostly quiet week this week on Spotify, but there could be some surprising singles.  Last week, Ozzy Osbourne released the third single from his upcoming album "Ordinary Man," which he's going on tour for with Marilyn Manson this summer.  It was the title track and featured piano and guest vocals by Sir Elton John, which was a nice surprise.  Also, according to Wikipedia, Slash has contributed some guitar work to the project.  The first single for the album for the upcoming DCEU Superheroine film "Birds of Prey" was also released, and Amazon.com states every track will be sung by a woman.  The film's character Black Canary gets a song, and Lesbian Alternative Rock/Pop singer K.Flay has a track, her second contribution to a licensed Warner Brothers movie, the first being Tomb Raider in 2018, which was one of the best video game movies I've ever seen.

Anyway, onto the upcoming releases:

Duane Allman/Eric Clapton-Jamming in 1970: This may be a vinyl-only release, but it would be a good addition to any classic rock collection.  Eric hired the Allman Brothers' guitarist to help him complete the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.  One August night, the two were fiddling around and producer Tom Dowd let the recording tapes roll.  I imagine there will be more than a few blues jams, Blues music was a big passion of both guitarists, both have recorded the Blues classic "Goin' Down Slow" and a song that sound like a jam session on the album is the Blues standard "Key to the Highway."

The Moog Machine-Switched On Rock: Based on the MP3 tracks listed for this, this seems to be late 60s, maybe early 70s rock songs performed on a Moog synthesizer.  Favorites of mine such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Get Back" and "Hey Jude" are listed and I figure it's at least worth a listen for curiousity's sake.

On 1/21, there will be a Blind Faith MP3 release of their live performance in Hyde Park in 1969.  Blind Faith was another supergroup Eric Clapton made, most famous for the song "Presence of the Lord."  This song was famous enough live recordings of it while Clapton had Derek and the Dominos have been released.  I feel Clapton has since regretted the song because I've known from experience Christians can develop a cult around a celebrity who is willing to praise Jesus, then immediately slam them into the wall when they do something not up to their moral code, rather than realizing every person sins and we all need forgiveness for the people we've hurt.