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Norah Jones To Release First-Ever Live Album “‘Til We Meet Again” Due Out April 16

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Norah Jones To Release First-Ever Live Album “‘Til We Meet Again” Due Out April 16

Nearly two decades into her storied career, 9-time GRAMMY-winning singer, songwriter, pianist, and 2020’s most livestreamed artist Norah Jones will release her first full live album ‘Til We Meet Again on April 16. The collection presents globe-spanning performances from the U.S., France, Italy, Brazil, and Argentina that were recorded between 2017-2019. The first single “It Was You,” which is available to stream or download today, was recorded at the 2018 Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California with Pete Remm on organ, Christopher Thomas on bass, and Brian Blade on drums. Additional musicians featured on the album include bassist Jesse Murphy, guitarist Jesse Harris, flutist Jorge Continentino, and percussionist Marcelo Costa. ‘Til We Meet Again can be pre-ordered now on vinyl, CD, or digital download.

The 14 songs featured on ‘Til We Meet Again also span Jones’ entire career from her 2002 debut Come Away With Me (“Don’t Know Why,” “I’ve Got To See You Again,” “Cold, Cold Heart”), 2004’s Feels Like Home (“Sunrise,” “Those Sweet Words”), 2012’s Little Broken Hearts (“After The Fall”), 2016’s Day Breaks (“Flipside,” “Tragedy”), as well as her more recent singles series (“It Was You,” “Begin Again,” “Just A Little Bit,” “Falling,” and the GRAMMY-nominated “I’ll Be Gone”). The album closes with Jones’ stunning solo piano performance of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun,” a tribute to Chris Cornell that was recorded at the Fox Theatre in Detroit just days after Cornell’s death following a performance at the same venue.

The track listing for ‘Til We Meet Again is as follows:

Cold, Cold Heart (Hank Williams)
Recorded September 20, 2018 at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA

It Was You (Norah Jones)
Recorded September 28, 2018 at Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA

Begin Again (Norah Jones/Emily Fiskio)
Recorded July 28, 2018 at Live au Campo, Perpignan, France

Those Sweet Words (Lee Alexander/Richard Julian)
Recorded December 13, 2019 at Vivo Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I’ve Got To See You Again (Jesse Harris)
Recorded July 28, 2018 at Live au Campo, Perpignan, France

After The Fall (Norah Jones/Brian Burton)
Recorded April 8, 2018 at Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, Italy

I’ll Be Gone (Pete Remm)
Recorded December 9, 2019 at Espaço das Américas, São Paulo, Brazil

Just A Little Bit (Norah Jones/Sarah Oda/Brian Blade/Christopher Thomas)
Recorded December 13, 2019 at Vivo Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Falling (Norah Jones/Rodrigo Amarante)
Recorded December 13, 2019 at Vivo Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tragedy (Norah Jones/Sarah Oda)
Recorded December 13, 2019 at Vivo Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sunrise (Norah Jones/Lee Alexander)
Recorded December 16, 2019 at Movistar Arena, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Flipside (Norah Jones/Pete Remm)
Recorded December 13, 2019 at Vivo Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Don’t Know Why (Jesse Harris)
Recorded July 28, 2018 at Live au Campo, Perpignan, France

Black Hole Sun (Chris Cornell)
Recorded May 23, 2017 at Fox Theatre Detroit, Detroit, MI

Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977 Arrives On Friday, May 14

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Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977 Arrives On Friday, May 14

Guitarist, multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter, bandleader, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and Songwriters Hall of Fame electee Steve Miller has dug deep into his archives and found an unreleased, full-length concert recording, Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, arriving on Friday, May 14. A variety of formats will be available, including digital, CD, and 2xLP black vinyl. The accompanying live concert film featuring the full performance will be available to stream on The Coda Collection on Amazon Prime Video.

Says Miller: “This show from August of 1977 at the Cap Center in Landover, Maryland, captures the band right at the peak after The Joker, and in the middle of Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams, a stream of hits…We decided to call it Breaking Ground because that’s exactly what we were doing.”

Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977 –includes original liner notes by music journalist David Fricke who says – “Breaking Ground captures the Steve Miller Band on stage in one of their biggest years, 1977. They were at a perfect crossroads of psychedelic zeal and progressive, popcraft while staying true to Miller’s first love, the blues.”

Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977 captures Miller’s legendary 1977 lineup at the beginning of the band’s turn from playing ballrooms and theatres to arenas and football stadiums. Recorded at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD on multi-track tape and newly mixed and mastered by Miller and his veteran audio engineer Kent Hertz.

The Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 74-78 album is in the top 40 of the best-selling albums of all time according to the RIAA. Recent releases for SMB include the 9LP 180-gram vinyl box set, Complete Albums Volume 2 (1977-2011), as well as the 3CD + DVD archival box set, Welcome To The Vault, both available via uDiscover.

STEVE MILLER BAND – LIVE! BREAKING GROUND: AUGUST 3, 1977

Track List:

Living In The U.S.A.
Space Cowboy
Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma
Come On In My Kitchen
Wild Mountain Honey
The Window/Winter Time
The Stake
Mercury Blues
Serenade
Take The Money And Run
Jet Airliner
Space Intro
Fly Like An Eagle
Rock’n Me
The Joker
Seasons
So Long Blues

Cream’s Goodbye Tour – Live At The Forum 1968 Announced For Release On Limited Edition 2LP, Out April 23

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Cream’s Goodbye Tour – Live At The Forum 1968 Announced For Release On Limited Edition 2LP, Out April 23

The limited edition, blue, 2LP release of Cream’s show Live at the Forum, recorded at the Los Angeles Forum during their Goodbye Tour of 1968, will be released for the first time on April 23. Taken from the 2020 full version of the 4-CD set of the Goodbye Tour 1968 and produced by Bill Levenson, this sumptuous 2LP set is the first authorized release of the full concert on vinyl. It captures Cream at their virtuosic best, at the end but also at the height of their career.

With Cream, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton, set the template for not only the ‘supergroup’ but also the “power trio,” with their innate musical talent and brilliance. Only coming together as Cream in July 1966, they shone briefly but blindingly bright throughout two trailblazing years.

“Cream was a shambling circus of diverse personalities who happened to find that catalyst together….. any one of us could have played unaccompanied for a good length of time. So you put the three of us together in front of an audience willing to dig it limitlessly, we could have gone on forever…. And we did….just going for the moon every time we played,” said Eric Clapton.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

Introduction by Buddy Miles
White Room
Politician
I’m So Glad

Side 2
Sitting On Top Of The World
Crossroads
Sunshine Of Your Love

Side 3
Traintime
Toad

Side 4
Spoonful

2Pac’s “Until The End Of Time” Makes Its Debut On 180gram Vinyl On July 23 For 20th Anniversary

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2Pac’s “Until The End Of Time” Makes Its Debut On 180gram Vinyl On July 23 For 20th Anniversary

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its release, 2Pac’s multi-platinum album Until The End Of Time will be available July 23 on high quality, 180 gram audiophile grade vinyl for the first time in twenty years. The Estate exclusive will be pressed on bone vinyl, with the 4LP set housed in a four-page, LP Folio Book with previously unseen photos and a track list handwritten by Tupac from The Estate vaults.

Originally released in 2001, Until The End Of Time debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. It has since been certified quadruple-platinum by Recording Industry Association of America.

Until The End Of Time features material recorded during the last year of Tupac’s life and includes the songs “Until The End Of Time,” “Let Em Have It,” “Thug N U Thug N Me” and “Letter 2 My Unborn.”

Until The End Of Time – Tracklisting:

LP1
A1 Ballad Of A Dead Soulja
A2 F*** Friendz
A3 Lil’ Homies
A4 Let Em Have It
B1 Good Life
B2 Letter 2 My Unborn
B3 Breathin
B4 Happy Home

LP 2
C1 All Out
C2 F***** Wit The Wrong N****
C3 Thug N U Thug N Me (Remix)
C4 Everything They Owe
D1 Until The End Of Time
D2 M.O.B.
D3 World Wide Mob Figgaz

LP 3
E1 Big Syke Interlude
E2 My Closest Roaddogz
E3 N***** Nature (Remix)
E4 When Thugz Cry
F1 U Don’t Have 2 Worry
F2 This Ain’t Livin
F3 Why U Turn On Me

LP 4
G1 Lastonesleft
G2 Thug N U Thug N Me
G3 Words 2 My First Born
G4 Let Em Have It (Remix)
H1 Runnin On E
H2 When I Get Free
H3 Until The End Of Time (RP Remix)

Paul And Linda McCartney’s Ram Celebrated With 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Vinyl Release Out May 14

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Paul And Linda McCartney’s Ram Celebrated With 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Vinyl Release Out May 14

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece RAM, the album will be reissued May 14, 2021, as a limited-edition half-speed mastered vinyl pressing.

Paul’s most recent release, the #1 album McCartney III, recorded in “Rockdown” last year, saw a return to the homespun, lo-fi style of the earliest days of his solo career. The eclectic charm and intimacy of 1970’s McCartney and 1971’s RAM found Paul redefining his post-Beatles creative identity, while unconsciously rewriting the rules of pop music and creating new genres along the way—or as Pitchfork would later describe RAM’s sustained influence on generations of fans and musicians alike, “inventing an approach to pop music that would eventually become someone else’s indie-pop.”

The only album to be credited to both Paul and Linda McCartney, RAM was created mostly at Paul and Linda’s farm in Scotland (following initial, more traditional studio sessions in New York). Unlike the completely solo sessions that resulted in Paul’s eponymous debut album, the recording of RAM found Paul and Linda enlisting a number of musicians, including Denny Seiwell, who would become a founding member of Wings, Paul’s next musical adventure.

The RAM sessions were completed in early 1971, also yielding the standalone single Another Day, a worldwide hit that preceded RAM’s May 1971 release.

RAM’s singular sonic palette was unlike its predecessor—or anything else for that matter—and has grown exponentially in stature and influence over the decades. Critically polarizing at the time, the album was instantly beloved by fans, hitting #1 in the UK and giving Paul his first post-Beatles American #1 single, the GRAMMY-winning Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey. In recent years the record has continued to solidify its standing as one of the most loved in Paul’s unparalleled output. Fans and critics alike continue to sing its praises: Rolling Stone has hailed the album as a “masterpiece” and “a grand psychedelic ramble full of divine melodies,” Pitchfork has praised it as “a domestic-bliss album, one of the weirdest, earthiest, and most honest ever made,” and Mojo, perhaps most accurately of all, has deemed RAM “quintessentially McCartney.”

Can You Use A Guitar Amp For Electronic Drums?

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By Mitch Bonham

In most cases, when you don’t have an amplifier for your electronic drums, the chances are high that you might have a guitar amplifier lying around. While you are tempted to try it out, you should adequately understand how your drums can use guitar amps. Guitar amps are designed to produce sounds that are different from the standard electronic drum specifications. However, if you understand how to regulate the volume properly and mix the sounds, you might have a decent experience using the guitar amp to your taste. Whether you can use a guitar amp for your drums or not, the answer is yes, but with conditions. In this article, we look at how you can use a guitar amp for your electronic drum.

Recommended Guitar Amp

While the guitar amp can be used for electronic drums, it is pertinent to note that not all guitar amps can withstand the pressure from your electronic drum. Most don’t produce the range the electronic drum requires, causing distorted sounds or, worse, damage to the amp. However, of all the guitar amps available, the bass guitar amp has been adjudged the most compatible with the electronic drums. The bass guitar and the electronic drum share similarities in their volume and frequency, meaning that the bass guitar amp is built to meet the electronic drums’ standards.

Reasons why you can use a guitar amp for your electronic drums

  1. Your Guitar Amp can work with electronic Drums

If you are lucky to have a bass guitar amp in your possession, you will be pleased to know that you can use it for your electronic drum. Both instruments produce low octave sounds, causing them to possess similar sound demands. Therefore, in most instances, your bass guitar amp is often equipped with the exact sound standard to meet the electronic drum’s low equality pitch.

  1. Your Guitar Amp can produce a decent sound For Electronic Drums

Since your bass guitar and your drums share similar frequencies, the guitar amps can produce proper tones for your electronic drums. However, it is pertinent that you understand the respective settings that can give you a fair sound. First, you should understand the amp settings and find an acceptable sound range to play. You should always see that you strike a good balance between your guitar amp and your electronic drum.

If you seek to manage your amp sound settings, you can follow the steps below:

  • Always keep the volumes at a moderate level: To get the best out of your amp when using it for electronic drums, it is pertinent that you keep the book down. You don’t need to tune it to blaring levels, not to cross the amp threshold. Since bass guitar amps are designed to meet the bass guitar range, maintaining a volume out of this range can cause significant damage and distort the sound. Therefore, while your drum may achieve higher sound levels, you must keep your electronic drums within the scope of your guitar amp.
  • Always observe the speaker cone to detect a strain in your amp quickly. The moment you notice excessive vibration to the cone, there is the possibility that the amp speaker is being strained. So, once you observe this and other distortion in sound, it is advisable that you slowly turn down the base volume on the amp. Furthermore, it would help if you always supervised kids when attempting to use the guitar amplifier for your electronic drums.
  1. If you want to use pedals, thread with caution

Using pedals can take its toll on the amplifier if you are the type that uses the pedals frequently in your drumming. Therefore, it is pertinent that you use it properly so as not to damage your amp. Since the guitar amp is not designed to recognize sounds emanating from a pedal, you might want to step on it with caution when you use the pedals. If you must use the pedal, you must always watch the volume level.

Conclusion

There is no harm in using your guitar amp for your electronic drum. However, as it is not explicitly designed for drums, its use comes with many caveats. First, not all guitar amps can work with your electronic drum, as most produce sounds out of the drums range. However, you can use the bass guitar amp to achieve desired results, as the bass guitar and the electronic drum share a wide range of similarities.

Whether you can use a guitar amp for your drums or not, the answer is yes, but with conditions. In this article, we look at how you can use a guitar amp for your electronic drum. If you want to get the best amp for your electronic drums, you can check out this link: https://thenationalparksmusic.com/best-amp-for-electronic-drums/

Dave Grohl Explains The Making of “Everlong”

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Dave Grohl Explains The Making of “Everlong”

To hear an artist explain the inspiration and actual making of one of their hit songs is wonderful. For them not to go too inside the tech aspect to confuse half the audience is rare. During a Foo Fighters set on Oates Song Fest, Dave Grohl talked about their hit Everlong in a personal and educational manner with some words of advice for musicians out there.

This 500-Page Book Is A Tribute To Music Venues, And It’ll Help Save Them, Too

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This 500-Page Book Is A Tribute To Music Venues, And It’ll Help Save Them, Too

Bring Music Home, a first of its kind documentation of the current state of U.S. music venues due to COVID-19, has just launched their first-ever book. Created remotely over seven months during the pandemic, the book captures the stories of more than 200 music venues in over 30 US cities— with a particular focus on the unsung heroes behind them.

Over 60 independent photographers, producers, designers, and collaborators joined forces to donate their time to showcase the local venues that are integral to the creative culture of their communities.

At nearly 500 pages, this hardback book features venues like Stubb’s, Baby’s All Right, Tipitina’s, The Empty Bottle, Boot & Saddle, The Fillmore, 9:30 Club and more and conversations with artists from Alice Cooper, Dehd, Native Sun, and The Black Angels to Shakey Graves, Jesse Malin, Khruangbin, Hollis Brown, and more.

At $75 per book, a portion of the proceeds will directly benefit the National Independent Venue Association, as well as support over 60 creatives who helped make this project a reality, many of whom were directly impacted by the pandemic.

The book is available now and can be ordered here.

 

Ashley McBryde Releases Live Version Of “Shut Up Sheila” From Her Upcoming EP “Never Will: Live From A Distance”

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Ashley McBryde Releases Live Version Of “Shut Up Sheila” From Her Upcoming EP “Never Will: Live From A Distance”

With four nominations at the upcoming 2021 ACM Awards including Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year, Ashley McBryde releases a scorching live performance of “Shut Up Sheila” from her forthcoming live EP Never Will: Live From A Distance, arriving Friday, May 28. “Shut Up Sheila – Live” is available everywhere now.

“There’s somebody in your family that you want to smack in the face and tell them to shut up,” the four-time GRAMMY nominee said as she shared the story behind “Shut Up Sheila” with Rolling Stone. “But because we are from the South or we live in the South, we use our ‘company manners’ all the time. We don’t always get to ball that fist up and go ‘Shut up!’ Now you don’t have to — now you can just listen to that song.”

Upon its initial release, Variety described the song as “a slow-burning rocker that’s the least pious death song country has churned out in a generation.” American Songwriter dubbed it “a fiery, rock-ignited declaration,” while Billboard called the track “feather-ruffling.”

Praised as “one of country’s sharpest truth-tellers” by Rolling Stone, the Arkansas-native is the only artist to have been nominated for Country Album of the Year for Never Will by the ACM, the CMA and the GRAMMYs in the same award season, while lead single and RIAA Gold-Certified “One Night Standards” earned McBryde nominations for Song of the Year (artist + songwriter), cowritten with Shane MacAnally and Nicolette Hayford.

“Shut Up Sheila – Live” follows the release of the live version of McBryde’s current single “Martha Divine,” a track NPR named as her “rowdiest jam to date” and shared, “When she plays it live, this thing will shake ceilings,” while Rolling Stone calls it “storming country-rock” and Billboard notes the track “never lets up.”

Never Will: Live From A Distance Track List:

First Thing I Reach For (Ashley McBryde, Randall Clay, Mick Holland)
Shut Up Sheila (Nicolette Hayford, Charles Chisholm)
Velvet Red (Ashley McBryde, Patrick Savage, Daniel Smalley)
Voodoo Doll (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford, Brandy Clark, Connie Harrington, Jake Mitchell, Aaron Raitiere)
Martha Divine (Ashley McBryde, Jeremy Spillman)
Sparrow (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford, Brandy Clark, Connie Harrington, Jake Mitchell, Aaron Raitiere)

30 Years Of “Joyride” – Roxette Celebrates A Classic Pop Album

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30 Years Of “Joyride” – Roxette Celebrates A Classic Pop Album

Swedish group Roxette celebrates the 30th year Anniversary of their third album “Joyride” – the much anticipated follow-up to the band’s spectacular global break-through with the album “Look Sharp!” in 1989.

The three US #1 singles “The Look”, “Listen To Your Heart” and “It Must Have Been Love” and other big hits like “Dressed For Success” and “Dangerous” had almost overnight transformed the dynamic duo of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle into a world-wide hit phenomenon that would soon pave the way for other Swedish pop acts during the 90’s.

Unsurprisingly, “Joyride” therefore carried a heavy weight on its shoulders; the album was supposed to cement Roxette’s new-found status as a global hit phenomenon, proving that the chart successes of 1989 and 1990 was no fluke. Some artists would have found this pressure hard to handle. But Roxette delivered. Or as Per Gessle remembers:

“Björn Ulveaus once told me how he felt when ABBA recorded “Mamma Mia”. It was like the whole pop world revolved around them. Their sound was spot-on, they had produced a string of hits, and everybody was waiting for the next one. But despite that pressure, they never thought it was difficult to deliver. And that’s exactly how I felt about ‘Joyride’. I had read an interview with Paul McCartney, where he said that ‘writing songs with John Lennon was just a long joyride’. The song came very easily, and I instantly knew it was a hit: it would provide the album with a great title, ‘hello, you fool I love you’ was a cool hook. Everything was there. With ‘Joyride’ the whole album was in the can.”

The world, however, was hardly on a joyride when the album was released. Releasing an album called “Joyride” and flying around the world for interviews and promotion when the US Army had just launched Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, can hardly be called optimal timing.

But in the spring of 1991, most things seemed to go Roxette’s way. The cheery title track zoomed up the charts, giving the group their fourth #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the USA – setting a record that still holds for Scandinavian acts – while future singles like “Fading Like A Flower”, “Spending My Time” and “Church Of Your Heart” was waiting in the wings. Soon the album hade passed the 11-million mark.

“Marie’s superb vocals is one of the main reasons that Roxette – and not least our biggest album ‘Joyride’ – was such a huge success. Around this time, she was at the absolute top of her game, effortlessly creating lasting wonders with my songs. Beside the big hits, ‘Joyride’ also contains ‘Perfect Day’, ‘Hotblooded’, ‘(Do You Get) Excited?’ and not least ’Watercolours In The Rain’, a song that Marie had written wonderful music to, and I happened to have a fitting lyric in the drawer”, Per says.

This autumn the 30th Anniversary of ”Joyride” will be celebrated with the release of a 4-album vinyl and a 3-CD box, containing the original release as well as previously unreleased or hard-to-get material that paints a fuller picture of a ride that still puts a smile on people’s faces. C’mon, join the joyride.

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