Hello forum friends
It seems that PETER GABRIEL at the insistence of his fans will put in the REAL WORLD shop some merchandising products of I/O 2023, either a program and I imagine that T-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, etc..
Be careful because on ebay there are some 2023 - I/O tour programmes for exorbitant prices...
https://www.mondosonoro.com/cr…s-from-a-rock-roll-heart/
Sergio Ariza — 11-07-2023
Empresa — Highway 20 records
Género — Alt-Country / Americana
Lucinda Williams has nothing left to prove, at seventy years old she is one of the most important names in what became known as Americana, although she is clear that her heart belongs to rock & roll. Her sixteenth album, "Stories From A Rock & Roll Heart", is an ode to the genre that made her pick up an electric guitar for the first time. A rock & roll record about the rock & roll life, with its highs and lows, its revelations and its silliness, a record about a genre that used to save lives and that, thanks to work like this, refuses to be seen simply as a relic of the past.
Lucinda's voice sounds worn and weathered, the after-effects of the stroke not quite gone, but she sounds passionate and perfect in her imperfection, the album begins with a declaration of intent, Lucinda wants to get the band back together and go on tour, musically it goes back to the main root: the "Chuck Berry Fields Forever" from which whole genres have sprung, the guitarists play the Stones, the organist gets his instrument to smoke and Lucinda plays Dylan and Springsteen at full volume. And as if by magic, the "Boss" makes his presence felt in the second song, another great track in which the author of "Born To Run" provides some heartfelt backing vocals for Lucinda as she dreams of her great return to New York, in another great song that rounds off one of the most rocking beginnings of Williams' career.
But this wouldn't be a Lucinda Williams album if she didn't break our hearts sometime, which she does with "Last Call For The Truth". Give me one more song to sing out loud, give me a little glimpse of my lost youth and I hope you stay forever young. "Jukebox" is the first acoustic track on the album, another lovely track in which Lucinda goes off to cure her loneliness at her favourite bar while Patsy Cline and Muddy Waters play on the jukebox.
But the volume is turned up again with "Stolen Moments", a track that sounds like Springsteen at his most epic, especially on a sing-along chorus, again with some great work from a superb band, with some great slide guitar work. "Rock & Roll Heart" is, as obvious as it sounds, the heart of the album, this is the song about the call of rock & roll, that moment when you heard something that changed your life and decided there was nothing else you wanted to do. You don't have to be very clever, but if the music resonates with you, it's a call you can't refuse. Despite being sung by two stars like Lucinda Williams and Bruce Springsteen, it seems dedicated to all those who got the call but didn't make it.
"This Is Not Very Town" is a sharp sample of rockabilly and blues rock, with a liberating chorus. Then "Hum's Liquor" is a look at the B-side of the rock & roll life, those who end up destroyed by it, like Bob Stinson of the Replacements, going to the liquor store every morning to keep drinking away all their demons.
In "Where The Song Will Find Me" Lucinda talks about the moments when inspiration and songs come to her. As she herself says, not to worry too much, the songs will always find her in the end. And the album reaches its conclusion with her thesis, "Never Gonna Fade Away", Lucinda is old and tired but she has no intention of fading away, when you have received the call it is until the end, you don't have to die young and leave a beautiful corpse, you can keep an indomitable spirit until the end, and that is something that Lucinda Williams has, with seventy years and many wounds in her body and heart, she is clear about one thing: "hey, hey, rock & roll can't die". Not as long as there are people willing to follow the call with their boots on until the end.
Hello forum friends
These days I have listened songs from the new album by LUCINDA WILLIAMS: where bruce springsteen & patti scialfa; jesse malin; margo price, etc, collaborate,
Almost at the same time her book of memoirs has been published (in Spanish): Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : The biography is very well written.
Apart from the purely family aspects is focused on his early albums. He tells us about the ups and downs he had to go through to get into rock music. “Too much rock to be country and too much country to be rock”. It had its climax in the album CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD (1998). Other interesting albums in his discography are the early LUCINDA WILLIAMS (1979), HAPPY WOMAN BLUES (1980), ESSENCE (20001) and WORLD WITHOUT TEARS (2003). One of the best things about the book is that Lucinda tells us where her songs come from...
I have taken the opportunity to listen again to CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD, a good solo album.
LUCINDA has recently had health problems from which she is recovering and she is performing in Spain...
Personally, I like the songs that have been played live. When I go for a walk I put on my wireless headphones with the Berlin and Paris concerts and it sounds great. The new I/O songs sound great. Better than Up and Us, in an upward line...we have a good peter gabriel back.
Hello friends of the forum
Do you think that when the american tour starts, peter gabriel will continue the presentation of new songs in the full moon?
Is it true that there are still live songs to be released in two options, bright & dark.
By October Peter Gabriel will have about 10 songs, a good number to make an album?
PG/IO European Tour from 18/05 to 25/06
Author: FEDERICO LUIS CLAUSSKLAMP
A few days ago the European tour of Peter Gabriel's new album I/O, which still has no release date. We imagine around March 2024.
In October or November 2022 we had indications that Peter was working on a new album after a whopping 20 years since his last studio album, if we exclude experiments like "Scratch My Back". It was one of his main musicians, Manu Katche (drums) who told us that the album contained "good songs",
Then the European tour dates came out, first in Europe and then in North America. Through Tony Levin's diary we got to know the new members of the band and the songs that are coming out of PG's hat every full moon, as well as pictures of the first rehearsals (soon we will have a new song).
The new musicians seem to me to bring spontaneity to the band; violins, viola, wind instruments, etc...give a different texture to Peter's music and songs.
More than half the songs in a set being "new" is risky; but PG has never been a "regular guy". Introducing the new songs at the beginning of each full moon with various mixes, bright and dark, is smart.
So far we know 6 new ones: Panopticom, The Court; Playing The Time, i/O, Four Kind of Horses and Road To Joy. As in the US, each song is accompanied by a piece of artwork.
I was looking forward to their concert in Berlin, with a cheap ticket, another time!
It seems that there were no cameras to record any of the concerts and make a good dvd/BlueRay.
We didn't know which songs apart from the new ones he was going to play. But in Krakow some doubts were revealed, like that the beginning would be Washing of The Water, and then in acoustic format they would play Growing Up (UP), then the new songs would come with a spectacular visual show by Robert Lepague, and other songs that had not been played before as a single: This is Home, Love Can Heal, And Still, Live and let live, So Much (Coppenaghe), etc...
In Germany at the beginning of the concerts he performed Here Comes The Flood in the Teutonic language. Pg has performed his music in the language of each country and has made us wish he would also come to Spain...? Soon (let's see if any promoter will come up!).
This time I will do my best to attend!
The newspapers and journals in each country have welcomed the new songs in good spirits, although it is clear that Solsbury Hill, Sledgehammer, Digging in the Dirt, In Your Eyes, Red Rain and Biko belong to PG's essential catalogue.
The forums and blogs in various countries have been raving about the music of this new "Gabriel", giving positive reviews of his new songs-
Some songs seem to be freshly cooked and others with more re-elaboration. PG fans have missed Games Without Frontiers or Schock The Monkey for example.
In short, it has been (is) a return of PG in style; with the risk of presenting their new songs in public and with the only blemish of the Nothingham concert which had to be cancelled due to logistical problems
Hello friends of the forum.
I have translated the alternative lyrics of i/o into Spanish and it is very nice.
I write (in Spanish) in a music blog (ROCK THE BEST MUSIC)...
And I translate it to english with the help of the deep translator....
Federico
Hi, my opinion about I/o is that it can be a good album in their discography. It has an amalgam of songs with varied styles. There are more intimate songs like Playing The Time, i/o and So Much, for example. Others are more complex like Panopticom and Four Kind Of Horses. Personally I like the Court and Road To Joy the least, but we'll have to see how they sound on record.
Between the songs that have been released and the ones that haven't (if they appear live) there are about 12 songs...
How many songs will i/o have?
Release date? I imagine September 2023; March/April 2024?
In December 2023 there will be about 12 songs...
Hello, friends of the forum:
Here I leave you a very interesting link of the Verona concert (Peter Gabriel Gira i/o). It is collected in FairfaxCityMusic, by CLAUDIO BUSTAMENTE, creator of this channel and radio:
Bye Friends!
Thank you for the information on JONI MITCHELL.
I think he has an album coming out soon called AT NEWPORT (which must be a festival).
I have on vinyl LP: CHALK MARK IN A RAIN STORM, featuring Peter Gabriel and Manu Katché (In My Secret Place).
I'd like to hear more of Joni Mitchell, and she has two compilations: HITS/MISES...Is it a good option?
She has a very wide and varied discography.
I remembered that HERBIE HANCOCK has an album based on her songs: HERBIE HANCOCK...THE JONI LETTERS (which looks very good).
Hello, friends of the forum
When I heard this song live it didn't sound very good to me. Maybe it wasn't meant for a live performance.
Yesterday I listened to it quietly and I really like the song, it reminds me of Playing For Time.
I get the impression that PG has gone for simplicity in some songs.
And I agree, it could be the closing i/o...
Personally I think I/O should have a physical format, on LP and cd.
Let me explain. Their performances are very well received by the public and critics, but there comes a time when you want to have the LP/CD at home and play it whenever you want.
Another question is how record companies work, is Peter Gabriel on a record company, would pg submit to the laws of the market?
With the "new" tracks of the tour you can make a Lp/Cd or also make a box set that includes the cd and a Blue-Ray with some concerts.
I would make a cd with the Dark version and the Bright version.
I am observing how EC= Eric Clapton has divided his last production (24 nights) in three parts: Blues, Rock and Orchestra. Saving the distances, Gabriel could do something similar: I/O on cd (Bright) + BlueRay tour; I/o on cd (Dark) + BlueRay tour i/o...
And then on LP.
When?
With Peter you never know?
Hi, I recently heard that JOHN MELLENCAMP has released a new album: DESCENDING ORPHEUS, which has received very good reviews.
He had previously released Strictly a One-Eyed Jack; another album is Betty Lavette's (Lavette!) featuring Steve Winwood on keyboards with songs by Randal Bramblett and Natalie Merchant's latest album (Keep Your Corage, simply fantastic), released by Nonesuch Records.
Now I'm diving into JONI MITCHELL's discography...
Hello,
you are absolutely right. There have been many places in the world where the i/o tour has passed through. I say this because SPAIN is not a country that is frequent in their last tours.
At his age there will no longer be extensive tours but a month or so of dates and hope that he continues to produce new and good songs.
My apologies because there is a world beyond Spain....
My apologies
I didn't know that THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY was performed in the USA BEFORE BEING PUBLISHED THERE.
What I notice now is single songs by peter gabrieL PERFORMED BY OTHER ARTISTS and the appearance of musicians of his generation like STEVE WINWOOD who we recently saw at the coronation concerts of King Charles of England and who plays his hammond organ.
Speaking of other artists, Rebekka Bakken does a superb rendition of HERE COMES THE FLOOD on her latest album: ALWAYS ON MY MIND and Steve Winwood appears on BETTY LAVETTE's latest CD (Lavette!), where Betty covers songs by singer/songwriter RANDALL BRAMBLETT.
Well, from what I've seen and heard, a Blue-Ray of one of their shows would be nice.
The tour in 2024 would be a great lake after touring North America after the summer.
A second tour of Europe to finish at Glastonbury. Of course, much better than Elton John.
In 2004 I was at Lisbon _Rock & Rios to see PG when he had just released UP, with the crystal ball bouncing on stage (Growing UP). It's perhaps the only time he was at a multi-day festival.
I imagine that after the American tour he will think about what to do, whether to continue or not?
It should be finished by now and I'd like to see how it sounds in the studio without a lot of mixes... a normal cd/LP.
On monday 3/07 we have a full moon and there will be a new song!!!
I have to tell you one thing. Having both versions on one CD seems to me to be a repetition. But a cd/LP with a good cover, photos of the tour or rehearsals and the lyrics of the songs would be fantastic. I don't think it will be released in September because there will only be 9 songs (with their versions).
Maybe wait for March/April 2024 when the American part of the tour will be over and there will be more songs from I/O.
Or we could have a dvd-blue ray of one of the concerts plus the CD in a pack (cd + DVD).
As I said I was not able to attend the Berlin concert (Wadhbunhe), but looking at the chronicles of the various concerts in Europe I have to tell you that their tour has been commented on in the newspapers or journals of each locality; always with good reviews and applauding the visual effects. They don't talk about the sound at all, but they do talk about the great band he has put together. Listening to some of the concerts on my wireless headphones I notice that the sound is good and the new songs have a fresh air, a new sap...
Hello, friends of the forum
I hope that the next Full Moon theme will be a good song or that in view of the good live performances you will decide to record an American performance.
Peter could surprise us with a "new song" that didn't appear on the tour; let us know if you plan to do more shows in Europe, for example.
I'm not so much interested in cover versions as in a date for the LP/CD release.
Or maybe take stock of what the first part of the tour has been like.
I usually walk for an hour a day and put on my wireless headphones the Berlin or Paris performance, and it's a blast.
