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Randy Bachman’s new album: “Heavy Blues” features Neil Young on the song “Little Girl Lost,”
The album features 11 original songs including “Little Girl Lost” featuring Neil Young, the title track with Peter Frampton, “Oh My Lord” featuring lap-steel guitar whiz Robert Randolph, “Ton of Bricks” and “Bad Child” with contemporary blues star Joe Bonamassa. In addition, the late Jeff Healey appears on a song called “Confessin’ to the Devil.”
Randy is releasing the album under the name Bachman, which refers to the power trio he formed with bassist Anna Ruddick and drummer Dale Anne Brendon to record all the tracks. In support of Heavy Blues, which will be released on April 14, Bachman the band will be hitting the road on a North American tour that kicks off April 1 in Milwaukee. Only five U.S. dates have been confirmed so far, but more will be announced soon.
Here is the track list for Heavy Blues:
“The Edge”
“Ton of Bricks” (featuring Rival Sons guitarist Scott Holiday)
“Bad Child” (featuring Joe Bonamassa)
“Little Girl Lost” (featuring Neil Young)
“Learn to Fly”
“Oh My Lord” (featuring Robert Randolph)
“Confessin’ to the Devil” (featuring Jeff Healey)
“Heavy Blues” (featuring Peter Frampton)
“Wild Texas Ride”
“Please Come to Paris” (featuring Canadian folk-rock singer Luke Doucet)
“We Need to Talk”
Here’s a list of all of Bachman’s confirmed U.S. tour dates:
4/1 — Milwaukee, WI, Potawatomi Bingo Casino – The Northern Lights Theater
4/2 — St. Charles, IL, The Arcada Theater
4/4 — Cleveland, OH, Quicken Loans Arena
4/24 — Ridgefield, CT, Ridgefield Playhouse
4/25 — New York, NY, The Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture
Weeks after announcing his new “Heavy Blues” Randy Bachman has unveiled the title track — a guitar-heavy number that lives up to its name with assistance from special guest Peter Frampton, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.
The song list includes Neil Young featured on song 4 “Little Lost Girl.”
UCR writer Jeff Giles says Bachman’s new project began with a conversation between Bachman and his friend Neil Young, who spurred him to dig deeper for his next solo effort.
Bachman said: “He said, ‘Take some advice. Don’t do the same old crap and call it something new.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘Don’t do the same thing and say it’s a new album … Stop, get out of the box, do something fearless, be fierce, be ferocious, reinvent yourself.’ And I go, ‘OK, great advice.’”.
In addition to Frampton and Young, Bachman’s joined on ‘Heavy Blues’ by Joe Bonamassa and Robert Randolph, and makes use of an archival performance from the late Jeff Healey. The album isn’t scheduled to arrive in U.S. stores until April 15, but it’s available for pre-order now.
Neil Young will be among the guest musicians playing on Randy Bachman’s next album, titled “Heavy Blues” and due for release on April 15, 2015.
“Do something fearless, be fierce, be ferocious, reinvent yourself,” Young is said to have told Bachman.
According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the album will include a small core combo: bassist Anna Ruddick and drummer Dale Anne Brendan, and will reflect the band’s “love of classic ’60s blues rock” and promises “a blistering sound” as well as “a fierce and fearless collection of Bachman originals.”
Bachman enlisted a group of guest guitarists for the tracks: along with his own signature playing, ‘Heavy Blues’ features solos from Neil Young, Joe Bonamassa and Robert Randolph, as well as a contribution from the late Jeff Healey, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 41.
Bachman credits Young with helping push him toward making the leap he took for ‘Heavy Blues,’ recalling a conversation between the two in which Young cajoled him to try something different. “He said, ‘Take some advice. Don’t do the same old crap and call it something new.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘Don’t do the same thing and say it’s a new album … Stop, get out of the box, do something fearless, be fierce, be ferocious, reinvent yourself.’ And I go, ‘OK, great advice.’”
Neil interview, i.e. he talks about being with Randy Bachman. “Everybody was talking about this punk rebel kid…”
“Segment from CBC/Insight Productions 1987 classic comedy series ‘It’s Only Rock&Roll’. Starring Ralph Benmergui interviewing Neil Young, Burton Commings and Randy Bachman in a 1987 reunion in Winnipeg, Canada. Directed by Allan Novak Produced by Joe Bodolai. ”
Is he ever going to make it with a voice like that?
“So I spoke to my old friend Bruce and told him I was feeling it, his loss of Clarence. We talked for quite a while, and there is no need to go into what two old friends had to say to each other at this point, except to say that two old friends spoke to each other about their music, their muses, their partners in crime, their proof, their friendship, their souls and their lives. Ben Keith was my Clarence Clemons. Clarence Clemons was Bruce\'s Ben Keith. When he died last year it touched me to the core. I don\'t want to ever think of any one else playing his parts or occupying his space. No one could. I can\'t do those songs again unless it\'s solo. So I told Bruce, \"Waylon once looked at me and said, \'There\'s very few of us left.\'\" He liked that. I told him when he looked to his right I would be there. That\'s enough. I\'m not talking about that anymore.” by -- Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace
Neil Young on Tour
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