Last week was a very intense week on Spotify. In addition to the albums I mentioned, there
were new releases for Neil Young and Bob Dylan and I decided to try out new
releases by Electric Lady and Jinka, as well as an old live album credited to
the Monalisa Twins with a lot of Beatles covers and other classic rock. Also, due to Juneteenth, I decided to look
through more of Gary Clark Jr.’s discography.
Also, an album I’ve had for a month by Hell’s Belles lead guitarist Adrian
Conner finally made it to digital media/streaming, so I went through that
again. Most of the music was great, I
just feel Dylan and Young may not be up to what I was used to from them when
they were younger, as their albums were fairly flat and uninteresting with
about one solid piece each. Last night
also featured a Concert for All In Washington, a charity coalition dedicated to
stopping the Corona Virus, helping the homeless and support the African-American
and LGBTQ+ communities with performances by Brandi Carlile, Sleater-Kinney,
Pearl Jam and Macklemore from their houses, plus I also got to see The Black
Tones cover Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “All Along The Watchtower,” which was
superb, and Mary Lambert collaborate with Allen Stone, which makes me want to
delve deeper into Mary Lambert’s discography beyond her collaboration with
Macklemore, so I added a few of her songs to my Unheard playlist on Spotify and
found she’s collaborated with Julien Baker and K.Flay.
This week features 3 major releases I’m looking forward to
and thus far, they seem enjoyable.
Grey Daze-Amends: I pre-ordered this album back in February,
because this is a posthumous release for Chester Bennington, best known as the
lead singer for Linkin Park. I
thoroughly loved their songs in the first three live-action Transformers movies
and was terribly saddened in 2017 to hear of his suicide, which may have been
prompted by the suicide of his friend Chris Cornell, he hung himself on
Cornell’s birthday. One of his last
projects was to reassemble his first band, Grey Daze, and provide them some
vocals for songs he intended to finish.
The rest of the band carried on without him, finishing the album for
release this year. It was originally
scheduled to be released in March, but COVID pushed back its release date until
now. The singles have been nice to
listen to, a good example of Alternative Rock, and I expect the same from the
whole album.
Various Artists-Street Survivors Soundtrack: This is a
soundtrack release to a movie currently on Netflix that details the last few
hours of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd band.
With blues-rocker Pat Travers contributing a cover of “Call Me The
Breeze” and original band member Artimus Pyle and his family contributing most
of the rest of the rock songs, this sounds like an exciting, yet bittersweet
release.
Eric Clapton and B.B. King: Riding With The King (Deluxe
Edition): Two giants of blues met twenty years ago to record this album, now,
it’s being released again, enabling younger people like me to hear it in its
entirety, plus some bonus tracks, like “Come Rain or Come Shine” and “Rolling
and Tumbling.” It also features the two
collaborating with recordings either had done in the past, such as “Key To The
Highway,” featured on Clapton’s Derek and the Dominos album, or “Three O’clock
Blues,” which King had previously recorded.
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