Mike Campbell and the Soiled Knobs will launch a brand new album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, on June 14.
The LP options visitors Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and Campbell’s personal former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate, Benmont Tench.
“It was religious,” Campbell instructed Rolling Stone of his expertise making the album in his Los Angeles residence studio earlier this yr. “I obtained somewhat wistful about Tom as a result of we had been there collectively, and I stood the place we had arrange with Mudcrutch initially in that room. I obtained lots of flashbacks of candy reminiscences.”
That is the Knobs’ third album, however based on Campbell, a lot of its songs have been sitting in his archive for years.
“Again within the day, I might write songs after which give them to my companion Tom, and that is all I ever did with them,” he defined. “I gave him a lot he could not probably ever cope with all of it. I caught quite a bit up on the shelf for future evaluation. And so right here I’m sooner or later and I pulled them out.”
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A whole set checklist is obtainable beneath, in addition to the primary tune from the album, “Dare to Dream,” with Nash.
“[Nash] form of made it sound somewhat bit just like the Hollies mix on the vocals,” Campbell mentioned. “He actually lifted the tune up and it was only a thrill to have a hero of mine singing my tune.”
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Campbell and the Knobs will tour this summer season with the brand new music in tow, starting June 21. Their standard drummer, Matt Laug, will not be with them as he’ll be filling in for Phil Rudd in AC/DC, however in his place will likely be one other fellow former Heartbreaker, Steve Ferrone. The set lists will embrace music from all three Knobs albums, plus Heartbreakers classics.
“I am nonetheless grieving,” Campbell mentioned. “It is a bittersweet factor. We do an outdated tune as a result of I nonetheless miss my brother. However he is nonetheless alive in these songs.”
Mike Campbell and the Soiled Knobs, ‘Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits’ Observe Itemizing:
1. “The Biggest”
2. “Angel of Mercy”
3. “Dare to Dream” (feat. Graham Nash)
4. “Arms Are Tied”
5. “Hell or Excessive Water” (feat. Lucinda Williams)
6. “So Alive”
7. “Shake These Blues”
8. “Harmless Man”
9. “Do not Wait Up” (feat. Chris Stapleton & Benmont Tench)
10. “My Outdated Pals”
11. “Amanda Lynn”
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The surviving members proceed to forge new paths.
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