Totally Mild - Her - VINYL LP

Charley Crockett will his latest album The Man From Waco on September 9th via Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers. Crockett wrote or co-wrote all 14 songs on the album, and in many ways The Man From Waco is the purest distillation of his artistry to date. What started as a demo session with producer Bruce Robison at Robison's studio The Bunker outside Austin, TX turned into the first album Crockett has ever made with his band The Blue Drifters backing him from start to finish. Mostly first takes with only a handful of overdubs, The Man From Waco finds Crockett refining his singular InchGulf & WesternInch sound which continues to captivate an ever-growing legion of fans. InchI just wanted an honest partnership do it at your place, live to tape, everybody in the room,Inch Crockett says of the recording experience, and Robison was happy to accommodate. InchThe magic is in the performances on that tape. That's what Bruce wanted to do, that's what I wanted to do. When we were done, I said 'these are masters, not demos.'Inch There's a loose narrative thread that ties the album together, but at the center of The Man From Waco is Crockett, who continues to trust his instincts and carve out his own singular space. Eschewing the ever-growing siren song of major labels and GRAMMY-winning producers, Crockett is forging ahead as a mostly DIY artist, calling his own shots and giving himself the space to strive for greatness on his own terms. InchEverybody was telling me 'go right, go right, go right,'Inch says Crockett. InchI went left. I had to hold on to what has gotten me this far.Inch

Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. InchLike trains forever leaving stations, merciful are these stories we spin,Inch sings Gerry Beckley on the title track to his latest solo album, Merciful, a dark-laced song penned by noted Scandinavian jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. That sentiment captures the elegiac spirit of the 13-song collection, produced by Beckley with frequent collaborator and lyricist Jeff Larson, which looks both back and forward with an appreciation of the past and an acknowledgement of impending mortality. Beckley is the co-founding member of the multi-platinum band America. Beckley wrote and sang lead on such successful America singles as InchSister Golden Hair,Inch InchI Need You,Inch InchDaisy JaneInch and the Russ Ballard-penned InchYou Can Do Magic.Inch His latest solo work, Merciful, is a timeless, personal work that realizes our own very limited span on earth at the same time as it seizes the possibilities while we're still here; a most worthy addition to the classic Gerry Beckley oeuvre, the light and dark perfectly calibrated. The album's highlights include singles InchWhen the Wells Run Dry,Inch the upbeat, joyful InchGet It RightInch and Beckley's emotional cover of InchNorwegian Wood,Inch the Beatles' wistful saga of an extramarital love affair with special guest Graham Nash on vocals - recalling that Beckley was in a London high school just as the British Invasion was in full swing. Gerry originally ran into the singer/songwriter after a Nash performance at the Sydney Opera House when his longtime pal casually offered his services for any future project. InchThe song seemed custom-made for his signature high harmony voice, so I took him up on it,Inch said Beckley, who played the song in an open-tuned acoustic guitar style dubbed DADGAD. InchGraham's one of my true heroes going back to his time in the Hollies.Inch

For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band have made it a point to evolve with every album-sometimes dramatically so-never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels. It's an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions. Now with their twelfth album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun..., AFI are once again at the start of a bold new chapter, only this time they've even managed to surprise themselves. How does a band that's known for creative upheaval still find ways to push themselves out of their comfort zones? Typically the group would start an album by immediately throwing themselves into writing and simply letting their intuitive musical shorthand guide the process, but for Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... AFI set out to purposely change their creative approach all together. This time it started with a conversation how could they break new ground? The key to moving forward actually ended up coming from AFI's collective past. InchWe started with something that sounded like Echo & the Bunnymen,Inch explains guitarist Jade Puget, who produced and engineered the album. InchBut eventually we ended up with this melange of death rock and post-punk-all this stuff from the late '70s and early '80s that we grew up on, like Sisters of Mercy, and Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.Inch The goal became making an album with a singular mood, something dreamy and ethereal, and the band members found themselves diving headfirst into influences that had always been deeply embedded in AFI's musical core, but now were being brought to the forefront. Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... is dark and otherworldly, but also grandiose and stately, biting and beautiful in equal measure-in other words