Release Day Picks: June 9th New Album Highlights

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 Gov’t Mule,Chuck Berry, Phoenix, The Magpie Salute and Hudson. Read on for more insight into the records we have all queued up to spin.

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Gov’t Mule – Revolution Come … Revolution Go

The Scoop: Jam stalwarts Gov’t Mule show off a number of sides of their musical prowess on Revolution Come … Revolution Go, the band’s first new studio album since the release Shout! in 2013. The quartet recorded the 12-track effort over the course of two sessions. Warren Haynes first led Mule into sessions in Austin that started on Election Day, so it’s no surprise many of the tracks are politically-charged. The second sessions took place in New York City featuring Don Was as co-producer. Standout songs include the Steely Dan-esque “Sarah, Surrender,” the beautiful and poignant “Traveling Tune” and “Stone Cold Rage” which has the Mule’s trademark heavy hitting blues-rock sound. Listen to the Revolution Come … Revolution Go track “Dreams & Songs”:

Label: Fantasy Records

Producer: Gordie Johnson, Warren Haynes, Don Was

Number Of Tracks: 12

Running Time: 77:22

Guest Musicians: Gordie Johnson, Rey Aretaga, Sheree Smith, Angela Miller, Lauren Cervantez, Alecia Chakour, Jasmine Muhammad, Bobby Allende, Jimmie Vaughan

Tracklist:

1. Stone Cold Rage
2. Drawn That Way
3. Pressure Under Fire
4. The Man I Want To Be
5. Traveling Tune
6. Thorns Of Life
7. Dreams & Songs
8. Sarah, Surrender
9. Revolution Come, Revolution Go
10. Burning Point (feat. Jimmie Vaughan)
11. Easy Times
12. Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground

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Chuck Berry – CHUCK

The Scoop: While we sadly lost Chuck Berry earlier this year, the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer did leave us with one last way to remember his legacy with his last studio album – CHUCK. The posthumous release features material recorded between 1991 and 2014, and marks Berry’s first album of new material since 1979. The 10-tracks are vintage Berry full of his signature guitar-licks, and sounds like something he could have put out during the prime of his career. The album is a joyous study in Berry’s undeniable influence on modern music and is full of everything from classic rock ‘n’ roll, to blues, to R&B and features help from the likes of Tom Morello, Gary Clark Jr., Nathaniel Rateliff, several of Berry’s family members and others. Check out the music video for “Big Boys”:

Label: Dualtone Records

Producer: Chuck Berry

Number Of Tracks: 10

Running Time: 34:51

Guest Musicians: Tom Morello, Gary Clark Jr., Nathaniel Rateliff, Jimmy Marsala, Keith Robinson, Robert Lohr, Ingrid Berry, Charles Berry III, Charles Berry Jr.

Tracklist:

1. Wonderful Woman
2. Big Boys
3. You Go To My Head
4. 3/4 Time (Enchiladas)
5. Darlin’
6. Lady B. Goode
7. She Still Loves You
8. Jamaica Moon
9. Dutchman
10. Eyes Of A Man

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Phoenix – Ti Amo

The Scoop: French rockers Phoenix began recording the follow-up to to 2013’s Bankrupt! in 2014 when they took over the top floor of a renovated multi-functioning opera house in Paris that’s home to offices, a museum and concert hall. Though motivated in part by tragedy – Phoenix guitarist Christian Mazzalai was stuck inside a recording studio while police locked down the area during horrific Bataclan terrorist attack – the resulting record spans the emotional spectrum. A press release described the LP as “an album about simple pure emotions: love, desire, lust and innocence, it’s also a record about our European, Latin roots, a fantasized version of Italy: a lost paradise made of eternal Roman summers (hyper-light, hyper-clarity, pistachio gelato), juke-boxes on the beach, Monica Vitti and Marcello Mastroiani, fearless desire and Antique marble statues.” Here’s the single “J-Boy”:

Label: Glassnote

Producer: Phoenix, Pierrick Devin

Number Of Tracks: 10

Running Time: 36:40

Guest Musicians: N/A

Tracklist:

1. J-Boy
2. Ti Amo
3. Tuttifrutti
4. Fior Di Latte
5. Lovelife
6. Goodbye Soleil
7. Fleur De Lys
8. Role Model
9. Via Veneto
10. Telefono

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The Magpie Salute – The Magpie Salute

The Scoop: While someday there will be a great documentary or book written about the long-standing brotherly feud between Chris and Rich Robinson, at the very least we get to enjoy the fact that both are still hard at work making music. The latest group to spin-off from The Black Crowes legacy is The Magpie Salute, a new project from guitarist Rich Robinson. The band, which made their public live debut earlier this year and features a number of Crowes alumni, recorded the LP live in front of an audience at Applehead Recording studio in Woodstock, New York last year. The album includes the last recorded work by the late The Black Crowes keyboardist Eddie Harsch and is a covers-heavy affair with songs from the likes of Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Delaney & Bonnie and War, as well as one new original song. Check out the music video for the album’s lead single and lone full-studio track “Omission”:

Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment

Producer: Rich Robinson

Number Of Tracks: 10

Running Time: 1:04:00

Guest Musicians: N/A

Tracklist:

1. Omission
2. Comin’ Hom
3. What Is Home
4. Wiser Time
5. Goin’ Down South
6. War Drums
7. Ain’t No More Cane
8. Fearless
9. Glad and Sorry
10. Time Will Tell

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Hudson – Hudson

The Scoop: Acclaimed jazz musicians Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski and John Scofield have formed the supergroup Hudson and today issued their self-titled debut studio album. The foursome first came together for a set at the 2014 Woodstock Jazz Festival and have taken their name from the area in which they live, New York’s Hudson Valley. Hudson’s 11-track effort was inspired by and recorded in the Hudson Valley and mixes songs written individually and collectively with covers of material by The Band, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Listen to the quartet’s version of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”:

Label: Motema Music

Number Of Tracks: 11

Running Time: 1:11:54

Guest Musicians: N/A

Tracklist:

1. Hudson
2. El Swing
3. Lay Lady Lay
4. Woodstock
5. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
6. Wait Until Tomorrow
7. Song for World Forgiveness
8. Dirty Ground
9. Tony Then Jack
10. Up on Cripple Creek
11. Great Spirit Peace Chant

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Compiled by Jeffrey Greenblatt, Andy Kahn and Scott Bernstein.