ROCKTOBER 2020 

Limited Edition Releases Available Each Friday Throughout October

Featuring Devo, Faith No More, The Flaming Lips, INXS, Jane’s Addiction, John Prine, Love, and Talking Heads

Rhino’s Rocktober returns to honor Rock n’ Roll’s most celebrated artists with 14 exclusive, limited edition vinyl releases. Friday, October 2 kicks off the first round of releases and continues with new releases every Friday throughout the month. Rocktober 2020 features iconic artists such as Devo, Faith No More, The Flaming Lips, INXS, Jane’s Addiction, John Prine, Love, and Talking Heads.

Full details on all titles are listed below, including quantities available in North America. All releases will be available exclusively at participating brick and mortar retail outlets. For more information, please go to: https://rhino.com/rocktober. 

Available on Friday, October 02:
•    Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual - 2-LP 140-gram pearlescent clear vinyl 
Limited edition of 3,500 copies, $31.98
•    Love – Forever Changes (Mono) – 1-LP 180-gram black vinyl 
Limited edition of 3,000 copies, $21.98

Available on Friday, October 09:
•    Faith No More – The Real Thing - 1-LP 140-gram opaque yellow  
Limited edition of 2,500 copies, $21.98
•    John Prine – Prime Prine: The Best of John Prine – 1-LP 180-gram black vinyl 
Limited edition of 3,500 copies, $21.98
•    Jimi Hendrix Tribute - Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix– 2-LP 140-gram clear and black vinyl  
 Limited edition of 3,000 copies, $29.98
•    Talking Heads– Talking Heads: 77 – 1-LP 140-gram translucent green vinyl 
Limited edition of 4,000 copies, $21.98
•    Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food – 1-LP 140-gram translucent red vinyl 
Limited edition of 4,000 copies, $21.98
•    Talking Heads – Fear Of Music – 1-LP 140-gram silver color vinyl  
Limited edition of 4,000 copies, $21.98
•    Various Artists - Outside Providence (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture) – 2-LP, 140-gram orange vinyl 
Limited edition of 3,000 copies, $24.98

Available on Friday, October 23:
•     INXS – Kick – 1-LP 180-gram green vinyl 
 Limited edition of 3,000 copies, $21.98

Available on Friday, October 30:
•    Devo – Duty Now For The Future – 1-LP 140-gram magenta color vinyl  
Limited edition of 3,000 copies, $21.98
•    Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! – 1-LP 140-gram white vinyl 
Limited edition of 4,000 copies, $21.98
•    The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart – 1-LP 140-gram, black and white mix vinyl  
 Limited edition of 3,000 copies, $21.98
•    Various Artists– The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – 2-LP 140-gram black vinyl with etching 
 Limited edition of 4,500 copies, $31.98 

 

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GRATEFUL DEAD

AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE

NEVER BEFORE HEARD DEMO RECORDINGS

AVAILABLE TODAY

LISTEN NOW

Digital Exclusive Celebrates The Album’s 50th Anniversary

With More Than Two Hours Of Unreleased Demos And Session Recordings

“The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast,” The Official Grateful Dead Podcast, Launches Season Two Today With Focus On American Beauty

First Episode “American Beauty 50: Box Of Rain” Available Today

 

LOS ANGELES – The musical distillers that recently uncorked Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share have finished another batch of unreleased session recordings by the Grateful Dead. This time, the heavenly sonic elixir will toast the 50th anniversary of American Beauty with over two hours of unreleased studio outtakes, demos, and alternate mixes.

AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE brings together never-before-heard studio recordings compiled from dozens of recently discovered 16-track reels. It includes multiple outtakes for several album tracks along with demos for every song on the album (except “Box Of Rain”) plus one for “To Lay Me Down,” which was later included on Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, Garcia. All 10 demos are available today for streaming and digital download with the full 56-track AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE to be released as a digital exclusive on October 15, shortly before the 50th anniversary of the album’s original release date: November 1, 1970.

Like its predecessor, the latest incarnation of The Angel’s Share was made possible by the tireless work of engineer Brian Kehew and archivist Mike Johnson who – operating under the supervision of Grateful Dead legacy manager David Lemieux – spent countless hours compiling and piecing the reels together to create this revelatory experience.

AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE opens with 10 demos that were recorded in August 1970 at Pacific High Recording Studio, the same place the band recorded Workingman’s Dead just a few months earlier. While fans are accustomed to hearing songs evolve through the band’s live recordings, this installment of The Angel’s Share offers them a rare opportunity to hear songs like “Ripple” (then titled “Hand Me Down”) grow from its first demo into the final version.

The vast remainder of The Angel’s Share features a mix of partial and complete takes from these sessions including multiple takes of “Friend Of The Devil,” “Ripple” and Pigpen’s “Operator,” an alternate mix of “Truckin’” and a different version of “Candyman.” These intimate in-studio performances are interspersed with conversations that make it feel like you’re in the studio with the band (Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bob Weir) along with producer Stephen Barncard and engineer Phil Sawyer.

The Angel’s Share is rounded out with an acoustic mix of “Box Of Rain” and a version of “Attics Of My Life” that spotlights Garcia alone on electric guitar, both newly mixed from the band’s recording sessions for the album later that summer at Wally Heider Recording.

As a reminder, the collection takes its name from a term used by whiskey distillers. The “angel’s share” is the percentage of whiskey that’s lost to evaporation each year as the liquid is aged in oak barrels. Much like the whiskey distillation process, there were also ingredients that were vital to the creation of American Beauty that were lost and did not end up on the final album, the band’s own version of the “angel’s share”. If not for good fortune, these recordings would have been lost to the angels as well, just like those gallons of whiskey. In this case, everyone gets a taste of the “angel’s share.”

To coincide with the latest Angel’s Share release, “The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast,” the official Grateful Dead podcast, has launched the first episode from its second season today. Produced and hosted by singer-songwriter and producer Rich Mahan and author and WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow, the Deadcast’s sophomore season will focus exclusively on American Beauty with each weekly episode concentrating on one of the album’s 10 songs, kicking off today with “Box Of Rain,” which features a special appearance by director/writer Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), who prominently featured American Beauty in the legendary final episode of Freaks & Geeks.

Season two of “The Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast” will welcome American Beauty producer Barncard along with David Grisman, David Nelson, and many of the other musicians who contributed to the album, along with appearances by road manager Sam Cutler, writer Steve Silberman, Dead Head sociologist Rebecca Adams, New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten, and many more. 

“The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast” launched this summer and quickly became one of the most popular music podcasts, with multiple episodes from season one topping Apple Music’s Music Podcast Chart. 

AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE is a special gift to Dead fans and a fitting companion to the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of American Beauty, which will be released on October 30 as a 3-CD set and digitally. The collection is part of the band’s ongoing series of deluxe editions and features a newly remastered version of the album plus an unreleased show recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre.

 

 

AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE

Track Listing

1.      “Friend Of The Devil” – Demo

2.      “Sugar Magnolia” – Demo

3.      “Candyman” – Demo

4.      “To Lay Me Down” – Demo

5.      “Truckin’” – Demo

6.      “Hand Me Down” (“Ripple”) – Demo

7.      “Brokedown Palace” – Demo

8.      “Till The Morning Comes” – Demo

9.      “Attics Of My Life” – Demo

10.  “Operator” - Demo

11.   “Box Of Rain” – Acoustic Mix

12.  “Candyman” – Alternate Take

13.  “Truckin’” – Alternate Mix

14.  “Operator” (Take 1) [Slated]

15.  “Operator” (Take 2 Breakdown) [Slated]

16.  “Operator” (Take 3) [Slated]

17.  “Operator” (Take 4 Breakdown) [Slated]

18.  “Operator” (Take 5) [Misnamed As Take 6] [Slated]

19.  “Operator” (Take 6 Breakdown) [Slated]

20.  “Operator” (Take 7 Breakdown) [Slated]

21.  “Operator” (Take 8) [Slated]

22.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 1 Breakdown) [Slated]

23.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 2 Breakdown) [Slated]

24.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 3 Breakdown) [Slated]

25.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 4 Breakdown) [Slated]

26.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 5) [Slated]

27.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 6) [Slated]

28.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 7) [Slated]

29.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Arranging Take 1) [Not Slated]

30.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Arranging Take 2) [Not Slated]

31.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Arranging Take 3) [Not Slated]

32.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 9 Breakdown) [Slated]

33.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 10 Breakdown) [Slated]

34.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 11) [Slated]

35.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 12 Breakdown) [Slated]

36.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 13) [Not Slated]

37.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 14 Breakdown) [Slated]

38.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 15) [Slated]

39.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 16) [Slated]

40.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 17) [Slated]

41.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 18) [Slated]

42.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 19) [Not Slated]

43.  “Friend Of The Devil” (Take 20) [Slated]

44.  “Attics Of My Life” (Take 1) [Slated]

45.  “Attics Of My Life” (Take 2 Breakdown) [Slated]

46.  “Attics Of My Life” (Take 3 Breakdown) [Slated]

47.  “Attics Of My Life” (Take 4 Breakdown) [Slated]

48.  “Attics Of My Life” (Take 5) [Slated]

49.  “Attics Of My Life” (Solo Version)

50.  “Hand Me Down” (aka “Ripple”) [Take 1 Breakdown] [Slated]

51.  “Hand Me Down” (aka “Ripple”) [Take 2 With Vocals] [Slated]

52.  “Hand Me Down” (aka “Ripple”) [Take 3] [Slated]

53.  “Hand Me Down” (aka “Ripple”) [Take 4] [Slated]

54.  “Hand Me Down” (aka “Ripple”) [Take 5 Breakdown] [Slated]

55.  “Hand Me Down” (aka “Ripple”) [Take 6 Breakdown] [Slated]

56.  “Hand Me Down” (aka “Ripple”) [Take 7] [Slated]

 

 

 

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ROXETTE - “LET YOUR HEART DANCE WITH ME”

UNRELEASED SINGLE AVAILABLE DIGITALLY ON OCTOBER 2

Previously unreleased Roxette single “Let Your Heart Dance With Me,” - one of the last recordings Roxette ever did - to be released on October 2.

Thanks to songwriter Per Gessle’s prolific flow of tunes, classic Swedish pop group Roxette always had a surplus of material to choose between for their albums. Many of these leftover songs were strong contenders for inclusion, and their quality has made them loved among fans when they’ve popped up as bonus material on singles or compilations.

This was the case up until the release of Roxette’s final studio album Good Karma, which in the summer of 2016 yielded a couple of songs that wasn’t needed for the album. One of them was “Let Your Heart Dance With Me,” which finally sees the light of day thanks to BAG OF TRIX, Roxette’s magnificent collection of unreleased material which will be released later this year. 

“I wanted to write a classic and simple ‘clap your hands and stomp your feet’ song, and ‘Let Your Heart Dance With Me’ came out of it,” says Gessle. “I liked it already in the studio, but as usual, we already had so many strong contenders that it had to wait for a second chance. And when the idea for this project came up, it was a given.”

Gessle gave “Let Your Heart Dance With Me” to mixing maestro Ronny Lahti, who some two decades ago gave the Roxette album Room Service its characteristic pop shimmer. The result now is a song that radiates summer, sun, and optimism—despite being recorded during a time when Marie was on her final days with Roxette due to increasing health problems following her cancer treatment a decade earlier.

“Just a couple of months before Good Karma was released, Marie’s doctors advised her to quit touring for good. We canceled the Summer tour and all future commitments. But even a studio recording was demanding for her. She wanted so much, but really had to fight to get it out. And she did. Marie was a real trooper to the very end,” Gessle continues. 

There is a new video for “Let Your Heart Dance With Me,” which will have a YouTube music video premiere on October 2, and Gessle will do a Live Q&A with fans in connection with the video premiere at 10:30am Eastern.

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ARETHA FRANKLIN ARETHA

CAREER-SPANNING BOXED SET COVERS NEARLY 60 YEARS

 

4-CD And Digital Collection Dedicated To The Queen Of Soul Features 81 Tracks, Including 19 Previously Unreleased Alternate Versions, Demos, Rarities,

And Special Live Performances

 

2-LP And Single CD Versions Feature Highlights From The Boxed Set;

All Formats Will Be Available On July 30 From Rhino

 

Previously Unreleased 1966 Home Demo Of “My Kind Of Town (Detroit Is)”

Available Today

 

LISTEN NOW

 

LOS ANGELES – To say that Aretha Franklin was one of the greatest American artists of all time is an understatement. Her multi-octave voice moved millions around the world during an unrivaled career that spanned six decades and garnered the singer-songwriter every achievement and honor imaginable. Her reign as the Queen of Soul will play out across four discs on a new boxed set from Rhino that is the first to span her entire career, including songs from every label she recorded with.

ARETHA arrives on July 30 on CD ($59.98) and digitally. Among the collection’s 81 newly remastered tracks, 19 are making their CD and digital debuts, including alternate versions of classic hits, demos, rarities, and live tracks, like her stunning performance of “(You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman” at The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in 2015. To put Franklin’s life and career into perspective, the collection is accompanied by liner notes written by Rochelle Riley, author and director of arts and culture for the City of Detroit, and David Nathan, Soulmusic.com founder and historian who interviewed Franklin more times than any other living writer. The collection also features stunning artwork by celebrated artist Makeba KEEBS Rainey, who provides her signature style to a classic portrait of the Queen of Soul by renowned photographer Neal Preston. Rhino’s new boxed set will arrive shortly before the premiere of Respect, the highly anticipated biopic about Franklin’s life starring Jennifer Hudson. Both single CD ($15.98) and 2-LP ($31.98) versions featuring 20 highlight tracks from the box will also be available on the same day. 

Arranged in mostly chronological order, ARETHA opens with “Never Grow Old” and “You Grow Closer,” which were released as her first single in 1956 by J.V.B Records. Notably, she recorded these gospel songs at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was the longtime pastor.

The next 10 songs focus on the period between 1960 and 1966 when Franklin was signed to Columbia Records. The music includes her first single with the label (“Today I Sing The Blues”), her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 (“Won’t Be Long”), plus the Top 40 R&B hits “Runnin’ Out Of Fools,” “One Step Ahead” and “Cry Like A Baby.”

The majority of ARETHA is dedicated to her record-shattering tenure with Atlantic Records between 1967 and 1979, which included five consecutive #1 R&B albums. In fact, the first two unreleased songs on the collection – “My Kind Of Town (Detroit Is)” and “Try A Little Tenderness” – are home demos that she recorded in 1966 to give Atlantic executive and producer Jerry Wexler an idea of possible material for her debut LP for label. “My Kind Of Town (Detroit Is)” finds Franklin replacing the classic “Chicago” lyric from the Sinatra version of the song with a callout to her hometown of Detroit. The track is available today digitally. Click HERE to listen now.

 

Franklin’s biggest hits are here too, like “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You),” “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone” and her signature smash, “Respect.” But instead of using familiar takes for other hits, the collection selects different versions, like alternate takes of “Chain Of Fools,” “Rock Steady,” and “Spanish Harlem”; live recordings of “Baby I Love You” and “Don’t Play That Song”; and “Think” recorded for The Blues Brothers soundtrack.

Her early 70s collaboration with producer Quincy Jones is revisited with a trio of unreleased recordings including the Franklin original “The Boy From Bombay” and a stunning alternate version of her take on the Sondheim and Bernstein classic “Somewhere.”

ARETHA also shines a spotlight on her best work with Arista Records between 1980 and 2007. Standouts from this era include hits like “Jump To It” and “Freeway Of Love.” This period also featured a number of memorable collaborations including “Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves” with Eurythmics and the #1 hit “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)” with George Michael.

Even for longtime fans, ARETHA delivers plenty of surprises. Prime examples are the numerous unreleased work tapes and demos for hits like “Angel,” “Until You Come Back To Me” and “Brand New Me.” The set also features the CD and digital debuts of several television appearances, including duets with Tom Jones (“It’s Not Unusual/See Saw”), Smokey Robinson (“Ooo Baby Baby”) and Dionne Warwick (“I Say A Little Prayer.”) Finally, the collection rounds up rarities like her cover of Donny Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be Free” from the Malcom X soundtrack and her jaw-dropping live performance of “Nessun Dorma.”

 

ARETHA FRANKLIN
ARETHA
Track Listing

Disc One
1.      “Never Grow Old”
2.      “You Grow Closer”
3.      “Today I Sing The Blues”
4.      “Won’t Be Long”
5.      “Are You Sure”
6.      “Operation Heartbreak”
7.      “Skylark”
8.      “Runnin’ Out Of Fools”
9.      “One Step Ahead”
10.  “(No, No) I’m Losing You”
11.  “Cry Like A Baby”
12.  “A Little Bit Of Soul”
13.  “My Kind Of Town (Detroit Is)” – Demo *
14.  “Try A Little Tenderness” – Demo *
15.  “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)”
16.  “Do Right Woman – Do Right Man”
17.  “Respect”
18.  “A Change Is Gonna Come”
19.  “Chain Of Fools” – Alternate Version
20.  “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” – UK Single Version
21.  “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone”
22.  “Ain’t No Way”
23.  “My Song”
24.  “You Send Me”
25.  “The House That Jack Built”
26.  “Tracks Of My Tears”

Disc Two
1.      “Baby I Love You” – Live
2.      “Son Of A Preacher Man”
3.      “Call Me” – Alternate Version *
4.      “Let It Be”
5.      “Young, Gifted And Black” – Alternate Longer Take *
6.      “Bridge Over Troubled Water” – Long Version
7.      “It’s Not Unusual/See Saw” – with Tom Jones *
     (Originally Broadcast On This Is Tom Jones, October, 9, 1970) 
8.      “You're All I Need To Get By” – Work Tape *
9.      “Brand New Me” – Work Tape *
10.  “Spanish Harlem” – Alternate Mix *
11.  “Rock Steady” – Alternate Mix/Take
12.  “Day Dreaming”
13.  “Share Your Love With Me” – Live
14.  “Don’t Play That Song” – Live
15.  “Dr. Feelgood” – Live
16.  “Spirit In The Dark” (Reprise with Ray Charles) – Live
17.  “How I Got Over” (Single Edit) – Live
18.  “Master Of Eyes (The Deepness Of Your Eyes)”

Disc Three
1.      “Somewhere” – Alternate Version *
2.      “Angel” – Work Tape *
3.      “The Boy From Bombay” *
4.      “Til It's Over” – Demo *
5.      “Oh Baby” (a.k.a. “There’s Something Magic About You”) – Demo *
6.      “Until You Come Back To Me” – Work Tape *
7.      “I’m In Love” – Alternate Vocal
8.      “Without Love”
9.      “Mr. D.J. (5 For The D.J.)”
10.  “You”
11.  “Something He Can Feel”
12.  “Look Into Your Heart”
13.  “Break It To Me Gently”
14.  “When I Think About You”
15.  “Almighty Fire (Woman Of The Future)”
16.  “Ladies Only” – Short Version
17.  “You Light Up My Life” *
18.  “Ooo Baby Baby” – with Smokey Robinson *
     (Originally Broadcast On Soul Train, December 1, 1979) 
19.  “Amazing Grace”
     (Originally Broadcast On Royal Variety Performance, November 23, 1980) 

Disc Four
1.      “Think”
2.      “I Say A Little Prayer” – with Dionne Warwick *
3.      “United Together”
4.      “Jump To It”
5.      “The Wind”
6.      “Freeway Of Love”
7.      “Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves” – Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin
8.      “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) – Aretha Franklin and George Michael
9.      “Oh Happy Day” – with Mavis Staples (Live at New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, MI - July 1987) 
10.  “A Rose Is Still A Rose”
11.  “Someday We'll All Be Free”
12.  “The Makings Of You”
13.  “Nessun Dorma” – Live
14.  “At Last” – with Lou Rawls *
     (Originally Broadcast On American Soundtrack: Rhythm, Love And Soul, March 2003) 
15.  “You’ve Got A Friend” – Ronald Isley featuring Aretha Franklin
16.  “Rolling In The Deep” – The Aretha Version
17.  “My Country ’Tis Of Thee”
18.  “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” – Live * 
     (Originally Broadcast On The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, December 19. 2015) 

ARETHA FRANKLIN
ARETHA (HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BOXED SET)
2-LP Track Listing (Also Available As Single CD)

Side One
1.      “Never Grow Old”
2.       “Today I Sing The Blues”
3.       “One Step Ahead”
4.       “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)”
5.      “A Change Is Gonna Come”

Side Two
6.       “Respect”
7.      “Chain Of Fools” – Alternate Version
8.      “Call Me” – Alternate Version *
9.      “Rock Steady” – Alternate Mix/Take
10.  “How I Got Over” (Single Edit) – Live

Side Three
11.  “Master Of Eyes (The Deepness Of Your Eyes)”
12.  “Until You Come Back To Me” – Work Tape *
13.  “Something He Can Feel”
14.  “You Light Up My Life” *
15.  “Think”

Side Four
16.  “Freeway Of Love”
17.   “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) – Aretha Franklin and George Michael
18.  “Someday We'll All Be Free”
19.  “A Rose Is Still A Rose”
20.  “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” – Live*
     (Originally Broadcast On The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors 12/19/15) 

*Previously Unreleased Audio 
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MICK FLEETWOOD RELEASES NEW MUSIC/VIDEO

Rock & Roll Icon Releases New Recording of

“These Strange Times”

 

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September 25, 2020 -- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame drummer Mick Fleetwood released today a new recording and video for Mick Fleetwood’s Da*da*ism “These Strange Times,” available on Rhino Records. Originally released on Fleetwood Mac’s 16th studio album Time in 1995, the song was re-recorded adding thirty seconds of Peter Green’s “Albatross” to the end of the song and set to a brand-new video.

Inspired by an eighteenth-century painting, the newly released video and accompanying single artwork are centered around the idea of something greater than us, which lies at the core of our very human struggle to be our best selves. 

“The project is about the energy of choice, of deciding if you want to be a part of the dark or the light when push comes to shove, which seems very apropos at this moment in history,” Fleetwood says. “It’s about how you read things, which is very important today. Everyone needs to be carefully paying attention to the information coming our way. There is subtext to everything and we need to be aware of that. When I first encountered the painting that inspired the photoshoot, it was a soul-searching exercise that I was driven to do but I didn’t know when would be the time to release it. Now I know why: the when is now.”

The spoken-word poem at the center of the song finds the narrator, Fleetwood, questioning his feelings and his thoughts, as he has found himself stuck between the dark and the light.  The video is meant to be as thought provoking as the song is hypnotic, as the lyrics detail the struggle of the narrator.

“I hope the song conveys that life is about choice,” Fleetwood says. “God is everything, no matter what your belief system is. Being in love is God, no matter your creed. There’s a rejoicing at the end of the song when the narrator chooses the side of the light. The song is about all of us making that choice ourselves and the relief we feel when we are no longer caught in the middle.” 

“This is something I wrote many years ago,” Fleetwood says, “and I want it to be nothing more than thought provoking. I want people to see and hear what they will in it. My hope is that by sharing these thought-provoking moments in my world that I can somehow open the eyes of others to things in their world and to the existence we all share, which is more and more endangered with each passing day.” 

Click here to find out more on “These Strange Times” as told by Mick Fleetwood with Anthony Bozza: www.mickfleetwoodofficial.com/2020/mick-fleetwood-these-strange-times/ 

Song Credits:
Title: These Strange Times
Artist: Mick Fleetwood’s Da * da * ism 
Composers: Mick Fleetwood, Ray Kennedy and Peter Green
Executive Producers: Mick Fleetwood and Carl Stubner
Produced by Lynn Peterson, Mick Fleetwood, John Jones and Ray Kennedy
Recorded and Mixed by: Lynn Peterson and John Jones
Additional Engineering: Jimmy Hotz 
Recorded in the USA 
 
Vocals: Mick Fleetwood & Bekka Bramlett
Lead Guitars: Rick Vito
Acoustic Guitars, Drums & Percussion: Mick Fleetwood
Bass Guitar: John Jones 
Keyboards: Ricky Peterson & John Jones 
Background vocals: Lucy Fleetwood
 
 

      
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