Release Day Picks: December 9th New Album Highlights

By Team JamBase Dec 9, 2016 • 8:01 am PST

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Each week Release Day Picks profiles new LPs and EPs Team JamBase will be checking out on release day Friday. This week we highlight new albums by Neil Young and Holly Bowling. Read on for more insight into the records we have all queued up to spin and check back next year when the column resumes in early-2017.

Neil Young – Peace Trail

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The Scoop: The ever-prolific Neil Young today releases his 37th studio album, Peace Trail. Young recorded a batch of ten new originals with bassist Paul Bushnell and drummer Jim Keltner over the course of four days earlier this year at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios. Neil tapped John Hanlon as co-producer on the mostly acoustic effort. Peace Trail comes just six months after Young issued Earth, a live album featuring Promise Of The Real. Watch the video for Neil Young’s “Indian Givers”:

Label: Reprise Records

Producer: John Hanlon & Neil Young

Number Of Tracks: 10

Running Time: 38:18

Guest Musicians: Jim Keltner, Paul Bushnell

Tracklist:

  1. Peace Trail
  2. Can’t Stop Workin’
  3. Indian Givers
  4. Show Me
  5. Texas Rangers
  6. Terrorist Suicide Hang Gliders
  7. John Oaks
  8. My Pledge
  9. Glass Accident
  10. My New Robot

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Holly Bowling- Better Left Unsung

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The Scoop: When pianist Holly Bowling came onto the scene, she focused strictly of interpretations of Phish songs and jams. Then, JamBase enlisted Holly to record a cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Eyes Of The World” for our 2015 video series in honor of the band’s 50th anniversary, Songs Of Their Own. Bowling went on to add additional GD songs to her live sets and recorded a full batch of Dead covers for the 13-track effort Better Left Unsung, which hits stores and online outlets today. Watch Holly describe the process of transcribing “Row Jimmy” for solo piano:

Label: Royal Potato Family

Number Of Tracks: 13

Running Time: 163:54

Guest Musicians: N/A

Tracklist:

  1. Help On The Way > Slipknot!
  2. Franklin’s Tower
  3. Cassidy
  4. Bird Song
  5. Wharf Rat
  6. Unbroken Chain
  7. Crazy Fingers
  8. Cryptical Envelopment > The Other One
  9. Row Jimmy
  10. Terrapin Station (Suite)
  11. Eyes Of The World (6/18/74 Louisville, KY)
  12. China Doll
  13. Dark Star

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