This week In One-Off Collaborations 12/52

Dean Martin & Tony Bennett, George Benson & Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck & Imelda May, Mavis Staples & Jonny Lang, Allman Brothers & Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen & Melissa Etheridge, Billy Joel & John Fogerty, Stevie Wonder & Chaka Khan, Dolly Parton & Elton John, John Denver & Glen Campbell, Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Jorge Ben & Lucio Dalla

Singing With Bruce Springsteen

John Fogerty, Tracy Chapman, Sting, Billy Joel, Michael Stipe, Mick Jagger, Paul Mccartney, Chuck Berry, Bono, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Axl Rose, Joan Jett

This week In ’80s Throwback’ 21/52

Europe, Queen, Gianna Nannini, Huey Lewis and the News, Joe Cocker, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Lenny Kravitz, Tin Machine, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Cure, Roxy Music

Harmonizing veteran David Crosby embark young partners, among them Michael Teague of Snarky Puppy, for another trip toward Woodstock. Your weed or mine?

David Crosby's 'Here If You Listen' is his seventh album recorded with Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis and Michael Teague of Snarky Puppy and released on October 26, 2018 by BMG

David Crosby

USA Today



At age, 77, David Crosby is a “lion in winter” – sage in the ways of the world he serenades, with leonine hair and a history of stirring up trouble through song

Washington Post



Crosby shows great taste and artistic smarts in giving The Lighthouse Band, as the collective is known, a more prominent presence Billboard

Crosby addresses his own mortality, singing “I've been thinking about dying/ and how to do it well.” It’s a tough subject, but one that he tackles head-on

David Crosby - Here If You Listen

AMAZON . ITUNES .

Released in March 1968, "Song

Lenny Kravitz comes back with ‘Raise Vibration,’ an album full of great kravitzian new songs. Isn’t it time to ask for a ‘Raise’?

Lenny Kravitz' 'Raise Vibration' is his eleventh studio album recorded with guitarist Craig Ross and keyboardist David Baron and released by Roxie Records on September 7, 2018

(Source Lenny Kravitz - Raise Vibration | Official Site)

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Washington Post



It’s music that resembles its maker’s style — cool sunglasses, motorcycle boots and well-worn jeans.

The Independent



In the song I’m asking for the same sort of comfort from that person, to get through it USA Today

The eight-minute "It's Enough" is most overtly political, featuring clips of Black Lives Matter protests and Colin Kaepernick’s anthem kneel in its music video.

Lenny Kravitz - Raise Vibration

AMAZON . ITUNES .

Lenny Kravitz' 'Are You Gonna Go My Way' is his third studio album released on March 9,

For ‘In the Blue Light,’ Paul Simon hires Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis and others to revisit several old and more obscure pieces of his catalogue. De(blue)lightful!

Paul Simon's 'In the Blue Light' is his fourteenth solo studio album recorded with among others Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis, Bryce Dessner from The National and the yMusic sextet and released on September 7, 2018 by Legacy Recordings.

(Source Paul Simon - In the Blue Light | The Paul Simon Official Site)

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Rolling Stone



But leave it to Simon—who made Nile Rodgers play 90-something guitar takes for one session—to redo songs in ways that don’t exactly overhaul the originals.

The Independent



...they are contemplative and melancholic one moment, silly and absurdist the next The Times

is a strange choice for a songwriter of his stature: a reworking of songs he felt were overlooked or not quite right first time

Paul Simon - In the Blue Light

AMAZON . ITUNES .

Happy Birthday Lenny Kravitz. ‘American Showman’

This day (May 26, 1964), in Manhattan, New York, is born Leonard Albert Kravitz better known as Lenny Kravitz, American singer & songwriter

Tracklist :

1 . Let Love Rule

2 . Be

3 . Freedom Train (Roskilde Festival, 1990)

4 . It ain’t over til its over (Peters Popshow, 1991)

5 . Are you gonna go my way (Pinkpop, 1993)

6 . Rock And Roll is Dead (1995)

7 . Mr. Cab Driver

8 . w/ Vanessa Paradis - Silver and Gold (1996)

9 . Can’t Get You Off My Mind

10 . Fly Away (Chris Rock Show, 1998)

11 . Yesterday Is Gone (My Dear Kay)

12 . Lady (Jay Leno Show, 2004)

13 . Tunnel Vision (Rock In Rio, 2005)

14 . I´ll be waiting (unplugged New York, 2007)

15 . Bring It On (2008)

16 . Thinking Of You (Tribute To Mother Roxie Roker, 2010)

17 . Stand

18 . Whole Lotta Love (35th Kennedy Center Honors, 2012)

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