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Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues - Relax Your Mind (2018)

Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues - Relax Your Mind (2018)
  • Title: Relax Your Mind
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: S.S.B. Records
  • Genre: Blues, Blues Folk
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 00:41:31
  • Total Size: 263 mb
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Tracklist

01. Hello, Central
02. Bottle up and Go
03. Fannon St. (Mr. Tom Hughes' Town)
04. On a Monday
05. Black Betty
06. Relax Your Mind
07. Irene (Goodnight, Irene)
08. Good Morning, Blues
09. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
10. Easy Rider
11. He Never Said a Mumblin' Word
12. Duncan and Brady
13. Come and Sit Down Beside Me
14. Jean Harlow

Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues issued their third studio effort, Relax Your Mind. The album was inspired by American folk and blues musician Lead Belly, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

Peter's brother, Nick Thorkelson, features as a guest on Relax Your Mind, playing piano while also providing lead vocals on "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word" and "On a Monday."

Huddie Ledbetter, known as Leadbelly, (or Lead Belly as his family prefers to spell the name), was a singer-guitarist of unusual power and authenticity. His legendary adventures and his collection of field hollers, chain gang songs, blues, children's ditties, and, yes, pop songs, brought him eventually to live and perform in and around New York City among a crowd of folk singers and minstrels of various stripes, including Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Josh White, and, maybe most notably, Woody Guthrie.

My brother Nick and I grew up with Lead Belly records, and these songs have been a part of our musical lives and inspiration for us since we were in our early teens. When we get together, whether family gatherings or performances, we still play Lead Belly songs.

I dived into the Lead Belly archives this year picking out favorites for a tribute CD with Shoe Suede Blues, and we even got to include Nick for a day during our recording. That's him, in case you couldn't tell, singing “On a Monday” and “He Never Said a Mumblin' Word,” and on keys throughout; any piano and organ you hear is him.

As I worked on the demos for the songs, I paid a lot of attention to the rhythm. So in some cases songs of hardship, heartbreak, mayhem, and death are pretty upbeat. Incidentally, on one of Lead Belly’s standards, “Irene,” we think we’ve done something original. None of the band members had heard, or even heard of, reggae in three quarter time.

I'm sorry I couldn't include more Lead Belly songs. There are so many he wrote or collected and arranged, and so many stories he could tell, that there will never be a satisfactory short collection. He was a giant in the folk and blues world.



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  • whiskers
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