Levon Helm Tribute - "San Francisco Days" - Jeff Slate - Birds of Paradox
TRIBUTE TO LEVON HELM: "San Francisco Days"
First new music from "Birds of Paradox" posted to YouTube in honor of Helm's passing; free download.
First new music from "Birds of Paradox" posted to YouTube in honor of Helm's passing; free download.
A message from Jeff Slate:
As I wrote on Facebook and in my Examiner column, Levon Helm and The Band have been very significant inspirations to me for as long as I can remember. In tribute to Levon I've decided to rush-release a new song from Birds of Paradox called "San Francisco Days". You may or may not hear echoes of The Band in this track, but their music was in my mind when I wrote it and as we worked on it in the studio. I hope you like it. JS.If you enjoy it and would like to support Jeff's music, please make a donation via PayPal.
Thank you.
Jeff Slate - Birds of Paradox - Official EPK
FIRST SOLO ALBUM FROM THE FOUNDER OF INDIE DARLINGS THE BADGE DUE THIS SUMMER
Album features an all-star cast, including members of Wings, The Byrds, The Who, the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band and more
"The best Tom Petty album since 'Wildflowers'" – Dennis Mitchell, DJ, Las Vegas, NV.
“It began with an act of charity,” Jeff Slate says in the liner notes to his new album “Birds of Paradox”, due this Summer. “I was the musical director for a charity event and Steve Holley, who used to be the drummer in Wings, was one of the guest performers. We hit it off and I asked him to drum on some songs of mine in the studio a few weeks later. When we got in there it was exciting. The songs sounded better than I could have ever dreamed. After 15 years making records and playing live with The Badge a new door had opened and I was excited again about making music.”
Those initial sessions led to an album's worth of songs with an all-star cast of players, including Holley and former Wings bandmate Laurence Juber, Gary Van Scyoc and Adam Ippolito (John Lennon's Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band), Jimmy “Mack” McElligott (Gene Cornish, Tommy James), Gene Parsons (The Byrds, Flying Burrito Bros.), Simon Townshend (The Who, Roger Daltrey), Josh Phillips (Procol Harum), Susie Collins (ELO, Ace Frehley), Wayne Cobham (Stevie Wonder, The Temptations), Paolo Provenzano (Fonokit, Sir Frankie Crisp), Eric Lichter and Alex Alexander (Prince, Dido).
In support of the release of “Birds of Paradox” – which derives its name from the fact that May Pang, whom John Lennon wrote the song “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)” about, introduced the core studio band of Slate, McElligott, Van Scyoc, Ippolito and Holley – Slate will be playing a release party in New York City in the Spring, as well as dates around the Northeast throughout the Summer and Fall of 2012.
With a setlist of songs from “Birds of Paradox”, crowd favorites from Slate's tenure with The Badge, and classics that Van Scyoc, Ippolito and Holley performed live with Lennon and McCartney, as well as hits by Bob Dylan, The Band, Va
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Jeff Slate - Birds of Paradox - Official EPK
FIRST SOLO ALBUM FROM THE FOUNDER OF INDIE DARLINGS THE BADGE DUE THIS SUMMER
Album features an all-star cast, including members of Wings, The Byrds, The Who, the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band and more
“It began with an act of charity,” Jeff Slate says in the liner notes to his new album “Birds of Paradox”, due this Summer. “I was the musical director for a charity event and Steve Holley, who used to be the drummer in Wings, was one of the guest performers. We hit it off and I asked him to drum on some songs of mine in the studio a few weeks later. When we got in there it was exciting. The songs sounded better than I could have ever dreamed. After 15 years making records and playing live with The Badge a new door had opened and I was excited again about making music.”
Those initial sessions led to an album's worth of songs with an all-star cast of players, including Holley and former Wings bandmate Laurence Juber, Gary Van Scyoc and Adam Ippolito (John Lennon's Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band), Jimmy “Mack” McElligott (Gene Cornish, Tommy James), Gene Parsons (The Byrds, Flying Burrito Bros.), Simon Townshend (The Who, Roger Daltrey), Josh Phillips (Procol Harum), Susie Collins (ELO, Ace Frehley), Wayne Cobham (Stevie Wonder, The Temptations), Paolo Provenzano (Fonokit, Sir Frankie Crisp), Eric Lichter and Alex Alexander (Prince, Dido).
In support of the release of “Birds of Paradox” – which derives its name from the fact that May Pang, whom John Lennon wrote the song “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)” about, introduced the core studio band of Slate, McElligott, Van Scyoc, Ippolito and Holley – Slate will be playing a release party in New York City in the Spring, as well as dates around the Northeast throughout the Summer and Fall of 2012.
With a setlist of songs from “Birds of Paradox”, crowd favorites from Slate's tenure with The Badge, and classics that Van Scyoc, Ippolito and Holley performed live with Lennon and McCartney, as well as hits by Bob Dylan, The Band, Va