Monday, March 4, 2013

Album or CD. MP3 or Wav The Allman Brother's Band Has New Music On The Way

In an age of music where cutting albums and flopping out compact discs like warped Frisbees seems pointless and disconnected. The proud masters of songwriting and performance use the terms loosely while still funneling out a few of the music terms in physical form. Hell Neil Young throws down album listening parties. If he had his way he'd turn it all back into a vinyl format world. The problem isn't artist. It's based on meeting the demands of fans. When preachers walk into my recording studio hoisting tunes around in an Iphone you know there's no way the industry of music is gonna pick up and start from the beginning. So long live the terms cutting an album, dropping tracks or flat out recording music. Although I feel completely out of tune talking about new albums on the air. It's a way of life. It's a style that set the standard. Plus saying, "Wanna go beat mix an mp3 like David Lee Roth and Bret Michaels" just sounds worn out before it arrives. If you're a backer of some seriously cool stacks of wax then rightfully you should know the Allman Brothers Band‘s most recent studio album will turn 10 next month, which is a long time even for a group of guys that would rather play live than record new music. Fortunately, according to drummer Butch Trucks, another record might be on the horizon. Classic Rock Magazine reports Trucks touched on the topic of new music during a wide-ranging recent interview with Jambase, revealing that Gregg Allman “is in the best shape he’s probably been in for decades” — not only in terms of his health, which was endangered due to complications with his liver, but creatively too. “The word is that he’s got a bunch of new songs ready to go,” said Trucks, “and that right there in itself is something we haven’t had in a few years.” As it turns out, “the word” Trucks is referring to came directly from Allman himself. “I just got an email from Gregg a couple weeks ago — and it’s not something he does very often — so you know something special is going on,” he pointed out. “You could just feel it in the email that he was beaming. He said, ‘I got all these new songs ready to go, I can’t wait. See you guys in New York.’ That just made my day — it made my year and maybe the next three or four years.” Asked if the band might actually start working on a new album in the foreseeable future, he responded, “Yeah, I think we might.” First, though, the band is focused on their annual Beacon Theatre run, where they plan to play some of the new songs, as well as seven new covers. Then, they may finally release the long-overdue 40th anniversary live album, of which he said, “We’ve been pounding on people for four years. We recorded that thing in 2009 and here it’s 2013 and it’s not even out yet.”

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