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Die in Florida beheimatete Country-Rock Band „The Mavericks“ veröffentlicht am 1. November 2019 ein Hommage Album zum 30jährigen Bandbestehen.

Die von Raul Malo im Jahre 1989 ins Leben gerufene Formation feierte unter anderem mit den Hits „Dance the Night Away“ (1989), „What A Crying Shame“ (1994), „All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down“ (1995) oder „Here Comes The Rain“ (1995) auch in Europa grosse Erfolge.

Bereits 1994 coverten „The Mavericks“ mit „All That Heaven Will Allow“ einen Springsteen Song und landeten damit auf Platz 49 der US Billboard Country Charts.

Pünktlich zum 30. Bandjubiläum kommt ein Coveralbum der „Mavericks“ auf den Markt. „Play The Hits“ umfasst 11 Kompositionen diverser Künstler wie John Anderson, Waylon Jennings, Patty Loveless, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson oder Patsy Cline. Ferner ist auf dem Werk auch „Hungry Heart“ von Bruce Springsteen zu finden.

Tracklist – „Play The Hits“:

1. „Swingin’“ – John Anderson
2. „Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?“ – Waylon Jennings
3. „Blame It on Your Heart“ – Patty Loveless
4. „Don’t You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)“ – Ray Price
5. „Before the Next Teardrop Falls“ – Freddy Fender
6. „Hungry Heart “ – Bruce Springsteen
7. „Why Can’t She Be You“ – Patsy Cline
8. „Once Upon a Time“ (feat. Martina McBride) – Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells
9. „Don’t Be Cruel “ – Elvis Presley
10. „Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain“ – Willie Nelson
11. „I’m Leaving It Up to You“ – Dale & Grace

Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart (Single)

Bruce Springsteen releaste „Hungry Heart“ am 10. Oktober 1980 auf seinem 5. Studioalbum „The River“. Die Singleauskopplung „Hungry Heart“ war Springsteens erster grosser Hit in den Vereinigten Staaten. Der Song fand sich kurz nach seiner Veröffentlichung auf Rang 5 der Billboard Charts wieder.

„The Mavericks – Play The Hits“ kann auf Amazon.de vorbestellt werden.

Mehr Infos:

• The Mavericks – offizielle Homepage

Jason Isbell erblickte am 1. Februar 1979 in Green Hill (Alabama) das Licht der Welt. Er begann seine Karriere Mitte der 2000er Jahre als Gitarrist der Alternative-Country Combo „Drive-By Truckers„. Seit 2007 wandert der mittlerweile 38jährige auf Solopfaden und veröffentlichte fünf Alben.

Zum „Record Store Day 2017“ steuerte Jason Isbell die EP „Live from Welcome to 1979“ bei. Auf der Vinylscheibe sind 6 Kompositionen enthalten, die Isbell zusammen mit seiner Band „The 400 Unit“ Live eingespielt hat. Unter den Songs findet man auch das Bruce Springsteen Cover „Atlantic City“.

Bruce Springsteen releaste „Atlantic City“ erstmals am 4. Oktober 1982 auf seinem sechsten Studiowerk „Nebraska“. „Atlantic City“ wurde als Single ausgekoppelt und belegte Platz 10 der „Billboard Charts“.

Tracklist:

1. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (The Rolling Stones Cover)
2. Storm Windows (John Prine Cover)
3. Heart On A String (Candi Straton Cover)
4. Atlantic City (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
5. Sway (The Rolling Stones Cover)
6. Never Gonna Change (Drive-By Truckers Cover)

Infos:

Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2017
Release Date: 4/22/2017
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Thirty Tigers
Quantity: 4000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release

Live recordings direct cut to acetate at Nashville studio Welcome To 1979. 12″, tip-on style, simple sleeve jacket, white dust sleeve.

Side A: 1. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Jagger/Richards) 2. Storm Windows (Prine) 3. Heart on a String (Jackson/Buckins)

Side B: 1. Atlantic City (Springsteen) 2. Sway (Jagger/Richards) 3. Never Gonna Change (Isbell)

Die Vinyl-EP kann auf Amazon.de bestellt werden.

Mehr Infos:

• Record Store Day Germany – offizielle Homepage
• Record Store Day International – offizielle Homepage

Bruce Springsteen wird auf Rosanne Cashs neuem Album „The List“ mitwirken. Der „Boss“ steuert den Song „Sea of Heartbreak“ bei.
„Sea of Heartbreak“ wurde 1961 von Don Gibson komponiert und unter anderem auf Johnny Cashs Erfolgsalbum „Unchained“ (1996) veröffentlicht.

„The List“ erscheint am 6. Oktober 2009.

Die offizielle Pressemeldung:

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash will release her 12th studio album, entitled The List, on Manhattan Records on October 6th, 2009. This stunning work features Cash’s contemporary interpretations of 12 classic songs culled from a list of essential country tunes that her legendary father Johnny gave her in 1973, and filtered through her own unique, sophisticated perspective.
The List includes Cash’s covers of songs by The Carter Family (“Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow”), Hank Williams (“Take These Chains From My Heart”), Jimmie Rodgers (“Miss The Mississippi and You”), Hank Cochran/Patsy Cline (“She’s Got You”), Merle Haggard (“Silver Wings”), and Bob Dylan (“Girl From the North Country,” famously done by Dylan and Johnny Cash in 1969). The album also features a host of special guests whom Cash admires, including Bruce Springsteen (on “Sea of Heartbreak”), Elvis Costello (on “Heartaches by the Number”), Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy (on “Long Black Veil”), and Rufus Wainwright (on “Silver Wings”).
Quelle

Tracklist:

01. “Miss the Mississippi and You”
02. “Motherless Children”
03. “Sea of Heartbreak”
04. “Take These Chains From My Heart”
05. “I’m Movin‘ On”
06. “Heartaches by the Number”
07. “500 Miles”
08. “Long Black Veil”
09. “She’s Got You”
10. “Girl From the North Country”
11. “Silver Wings”
12. “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow”

Mehr Infos:

• Rosanne Cash – Offizielle Homepage
• Rosanne Cash „The List“ bestellen

Der aus Houston, Texas stammende Countrymusiker und Songwriter Charlie Robison hat am 23. Juni 2009 sein siebtes Studioalbum „Beautiful Day“ veröffentlicht. Unter anderem findet man auf dem Album „Racing in the Street“ aus der Feder von Bruce Springsteen.

Presseinfo:

It’s been five years since we last heard from Charlie Robison. After a run on Sony’s Lucky Dog label and a live album on Columbia, Robison moved to the indie Dualtone for 2004’s Good Times. Though he continued to perform live, the CDs he’d been releasing every year or two dried up. Perhaps now we know why: in 2008 his nine-year marriage to Dixie Chick Emily Robison ended in divorce. Rather than writing through the dissolution, he saved up his emotions for this post-divorce album. Only he and his ex know if the venom is righteous, but whether it’s well-founded criticism or angry lashing-out, it still packs a sting. One takeaway: don’t leave a writer feeling you’ve wronged them.
No doubt many of these songs were written in the final throes of Robison’s marriage, but the wreckage is viewed is aftermath rather than from the eye of the hurricane. Robison charts many of the classic stages of recovery, including shock, confusion, denial, anger, depression, and uneasy acceptance. He doesn’t bother to cloak his emotions in songwriter’s allusion, but there’s artfulness in the way he opens up the main veins to purge his bitterness. Given that his marriage had officially „become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities,“ it’s unsurprising that Robison would castigate his ex for the lightweight echo of her former self he believes she’s become, and the broken promises with which he’s left.
Robison begins his reappraisal with the title track’s scathing portrait of superficial life in Los Angeles, and continues with a bitter spit of words in „Yellow Blues.“ The latter has a terrific country-psych arrangement, complete with Eastern influence, twangy and backwards guitars, and a thumping „Tomorrow Never Knows“ styled bass line. The lyrics suggest that in an effort to bolster favorable public perception, Robison’s mate kept their marital problems quiet rather than facing them down. A pair of Keith Gattis songs, „Down Again“ and „Reconsider,“ covers the merry-go-round of depression and forlorn denial. Robison writes of self-pity, barroom self-medication, and tentative steps towards recovery, the latter is most healthily heard in the chiming mandolin and social reconnections of „Feelin‘ Good.“
By album’s end Robison’s far from healed, and a defeated cover of Bruce Springsteen’s „Racing in the Street“ begs the question of whether failure has permanently short-circuited opportunity and hope. While Springsteen’s lyrics could illustrate the stunted adolescence of American Graffiti’s John Milner, Robison’s version suggests he’s stepping outside his own misery to consider the broader impact of his divorce. Either way, the roguish abandon of younger years has given way to middle-age doubt and regret. This isn’t nearly as depressing as it might seem, and though the processing isn’t pretty, the raw turmoil provides Robison the basis for this powerful album. [©2009 hyperbolium.com]

Tracklist:

1. Beautiful Day
2. Yellow Blues
3. Down Again
4. Nothing Better to Do
5. Reconsider
6. Feeling Good
7. If The Rain Don’t Stop
8. Middle of the Night
9. She’s So Fine
10. Racing in the Street

Mehr Infos:

• Offizielle Charlie Robinson Homepage
• Hörproben „Beautiful Day“ / Amazon.com