Blues Traveler - 2018 - Hurry Up & Hang Around [FLAC]
Artist: Blues Traveler
Title: Hurry Up & Hang Around
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Producer: Matt Rollings
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Recorded: 2018 at Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn, NY, The Practice Room, Nashville, TN and The Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN
Label: BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock
Duration: 44:47
Art: Front
Blues Traveler:
Wikipedia:
Blues Traveler is an American rock band formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band's music spans a variety of genres, including blues rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock. It is known for extensive use of segues in live performances, and was considered a key part of the re-emerging jam band scene of the 1990s, spearheading the H.O.R.D.E. touring music festival.
Currently, the group comprises singer and harmonica player John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, drummer Brendan Hill, bassist Tad Kinchla, and keyboardist Ben Wilson. Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson joined the band following the death of original bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999.
While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their Top 40 singles "Run-Around", "Hook", and "But Anyway". They gained mainstream popularity after their fourth studio album, four, released in 1994 and became a sleeper hit almost a year later. Sheehan's death and Popper's struggle with obesity put a damper on the group's success, and A&M dropped the band in 2002. In the years following, the band has bounced around through a succession of independent labels and record producers, and gotten increasingly experimental with their recorded output. Blues Traveler's latest album, Hurry Up and Hang Around, is slated for release in October 2018.
Hurry Up & Hang Around:
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
On the eve of their 30th birthday, Blues Traveler decided to hole up in a rented house in Nashville, woodshed a new album, and record the songs with Matt Rollings, a keyboardist from Lyle Lovett's Large Band who is best known as a producer for Willie Nelson. Rollings' presence shouldn't be seen as an indication that Blues Traveler have gone country on Hurry Up & Hang Around. Rather, they've adopted the ways of Nashville, turning out honed professional product that's proud of its polish and craft. Cut for cut, Hurry Up & Hang Around is tight and cozy, a showcase for a band with well-honed chops and a desire to reconnect to its roots. Certainly, the album is a far cry from Blow Up the Moon, the 2015 album that found Blues Traveler experimenting with every sound that they'd never tried, so it's a bit of a relief to find the group back on familiar ground, doing what it does best. Some credit must go to Rollings, as there is very little of the excess or silliness that marks so many Blues Traveler records -- the closest Hurry Up & Hang Around comes is "Daddy Went A Giggin," a tongue-in-cheek update on the folk standard "Froggie Went A Courtin'" -- but the album still retains Blues Traveler's gregarious, most precarious character. It's that latter trick that makes Hurry Up & Hang Around something of a comeback: after a spell in the wilderness, the band seems to be back where it belongs, which isn't a bad thing at all for an anniversary album.
Tracklist:
01 - Accelerated Nation (3:03)
02 - She Becomes My Way (3:50)
03 - The Touch She Has (4:22)
04 - When You Fall Down (3:32)
05 - The Wolf Is Bumpin (3:48)
06 - Daddy Went a Giggin (3:42)
07 - Tangle Of Our Dreaming (3:36)
08 - More Than Truth (3:02)
09 - Prayer Upon The Wind (2:19)
10 - Miss Olympus (4:02)
11 - Phone Call From Leavenworth (4:35)
12 - Ode From The Aspect (4:55)
Personnel:
John Popper – Lead Vocals, Harmonica, Vocals (Background)
Chan Kinchla – Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Tad Kinchla – Bass, Vocals (Background)
Ben Wilson – Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Vocals (Background)
Brendan Hill – Drums, Percussion
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