Well, last week's Ozzy album was excellent, it was nice to hear a variety of themes in the lyrics, such as the concept of extraterrestrial life (Scary Little Green Men), being faced with death, God and the afterlife (Holy For Tonight) and a callback stylistically to the first Black Sabbath album with heavy bass and Ozzy playing harmonica (Eat Me). Also, last year's hit "Take What You Want From Me" with Post Malone and Travis Scott returns, making this quite a good release.
Due to the nature of Spotify, there are a pair of singles that haven't been shuffled to the top yet, a single with Noah Cyrus as the guest voice, and a new single from a punk band from Seattle I saw four years ago, The Pink Slips. What's fun about The Pink Slips is their lead singer is also a famous musician's daughter, in this case, Grace McKagan, daughter of bassist Duff McKagan, so it all ties together.
This week has two major releases I'm looking forward to and both of them are Southern Rock, coincidentally enough.
The Allman Brothers Band-Trouble No More (50th Anniversary Edition): This appears to be a box set of various Allman Brothers tracks throughout the last 50 years, starting with tracks from their first release like "Whipping Post," featuring songs from their 1971 Fillmore East concerts, the instrumental "Jessica," songs from their late 1980s revival like "Gambler's Roll" and a live version of "Low Down Dirty Mean" (fun fact, this era of the band was the era I first learned about, because Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus mentioned spending time with keyboardist Johnny Neel in their autobiographies, and bassist Allen Woody (yes, that is his name) played on Billy Ray's cover of "I Walk The Line"), continuing to presumably their last live performance in 2014.
The Outlaws-Dixie Highway: The Outlaws were a 70s Southern Rock Band famous for the songs "There Goes Another Love Song" and "Green Grass and High Tides." Their lead guitarist, Hughie Thomasson, played in Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1996 to 2007, when he started this new version of the band. Shortly after, though, he passed on, meaning this will not have any of the original members. However, it does have Thomasson's blessing, and with Skynyrd retiring and the recent deaths of Gregg Allman and Tom Petty, the new Outlaws have a good, defiant declaration with their first single: "Southern Rock Will Never Die."
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