Last Thursday/Friday had a pair of classic rock surprises with Lynyrd Skynyrd releasing a single that looked back on the band's career called "Last Of The Street Survivors," which is probably the best song Johnny Van Zant has written with the band since "Mad Hatter," the tribute to Leon Wilkeson, or "Homegrown" off the "Last of a Dyin' Breed" album. (My favorite from that album is actually "Life's Twisted," but that was written by the lead singer of Black Stone Cherry) Joan Jett guested with all-woman group L7 on a cover of one of her own songs, "Fake Friends," which was a nice rendition of one of her songs. It also seems with singles in back-to-back weeks, modern pop singer Charli XCX is gearing up for something.
There's one release I'm looking forward to this week on Spotify since I have seen this band perform live and they were quite fun to experience.
Jack Russell's Great White-Once Bitten Acoustic Bites: Jack Russell was the lead singer of 80s Hard Rock/Hair Metal band Great White and had to make his own after being replaced due to a neck injury (or so Wikipedia says). He is a fan of Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, since I heard them cover those acts during their live performance. This album features acoustic renditions of Great White songs and also "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You," a Led Zeppelin song they reworked from a Joan Baez song which is the second song on their first album. Great White's live performance of the song from the 1990s, released earlier this year, was very faithful to the Zeppelin version, so I imagine this will be fun.
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