2020

Waters Muddy: Muddy Waters Day Boston 1976 + [2 CD]

While self-quarantining together the Fogerty Family, featuring John with his sons Shane, Tyler (Hearty Har) and daughter Kelsy, gathered in their home studio to play music together. Wanting to share with their fans, a new video was released each Friday as part of a special YouTube series and the fans loved it, eagerly waiting each week to hear John's classic songs.<br/> <br/>Fogerty explains, "When the world stopped in March due to the pandemic, the news was bleak and scary. We were all unsure of everything we once knew or took for granted. However, it also brought many of us together, we soon found we had time we never had before. Our family wanted to do something that might bring a smile or help others, so Julie suggested we bring music to ease some of the pain we were all feeling. In our family, music has brought us so much joy and we thought we could somehow share that joy in a pure, unscripted form. So, we gathered in our home studio and created music. There were many instruments the kids picked up for the first time, especially Kelsy who had just started playing guitar and even played drums for the first time. She was a senior then and wasn't able, like so many, to enjoy her last year of high school. This was a wonderful way of connecting with our family and fans through music."<br/> <br/>The audio from these sessions was originally released digitally as an EP that day. But the family didn't stop there, adding to the collection, nine new tracks have now been mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway, and curated together to form a full album. Full track listing below.<br/> <br/>The Family even recreated the classic cover of Cosmo's Factory transforming the original idea from 50 years ago into what is now known as, Fogerty's Factory. Both the original cover as well as the new Fogerty's Factory cover, were both shot by another family member, Bob Fogerty.

The ultimate remixes.

Green Day: Father of all... 2020 [CD]

Sveriges rockabillydrottning Eva Eastwood firar 20 år som skivartist med tolfte studioalbumet "Candy", en fullmatad godispåse med nyskrivna hits för alla som älskar musiken från sent 50-tal och tidigt 60-tal. Hennes två decennier långa karriär har inte bara gjort henne till en av Sveriges mest älskade artister i den här genren - även internationellt är hon ett synnerligen respekterat namn, vilket inte minst tre framträdanden som huvudattraktion på den ledande engelska rockabillyfestivalen i Hemsby kan bekräfta. <br/><br/>Titelspåret och förstasingeln "Candy" har redan visat att Evas låtskrivarinspiration är fortsatt på topp. Som en modern tidsmaskin fångar hon med självklar fingertoppskänsla de ljuvliga melodier och det opretentiösa sväng som strömmade ur den första rock'n'roll-generationens radioapparater och jukeboxar. <br/><br/>Men - och det bör kanske påpekas än en gång - det handlar alltså inte om hittills okända covers av rockklassiker med Brenda Lee, Etta James eller Ruth Brown: "Candy" är bara ytterligare ett bevis på Evas förmåga att skriva ny musik som låter som om kalendern snurrat tillbaka till 1960. "Buzz", "Is My Baby Happy Now" och "Old School" är bara några exempel.<br/><br/>Evas band The Major Keys backar som vanligt upp med sparsmakade insatser som svänger och glimrar till när det behövs. Kärnan i bandet består av Chris Bergström på gitarr, Jan Östlund på bas och Adam Östlund på trummor, med inhopp av pianisterna Jonaz Wilson Stoltz och David Nordlund samt saxofonisten Stefan Månsson.<br/><br/>Tillsammans fångar de lyhört upp låtarnas karaktär på ett sätt som får en att vilja glömma allt som har med social distansering att göra och bara dansa. Men till dess får vi nöja oss med att njuta av ett sväng som kan göra vem som helst sockerberoende.

Saxon: Inspirations 2021 [Digipack / CD]

The band along with a 38 piece orchestra - chipped away at masked recording sessions. A cheeky nod to Radiohead's future trip "OK computer".