PO: Benmont Tench- You Should Be So Lucky

[agaetisbyrjun]

Blue Note Records will release the debut solo album from Benmont Tench, You Should Be So Lucky, on February 18, 2014.

 

Produced by legendary producer Glyn Johns, the album was recorded to tape at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles and features Tench handling lead vocals, piano and organs, joined by a team of collaborators including a core band of Don Was, Ethan Johns, Blake Mills and Jeremy Stacey and contributions by Ryan Adams, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Joel Jerome, Tom Petty and Ringo Starr.

 

RollingStone.com has premiered the lead track “Blonde Girl, Blue Dress” today, click here to listen.

 

You Should Be So Lucky is available for pre-order at Amazon.com in both CD and 2-LP 180-gram vinyl formats.

 

The vinyl edition was mastered from the original analog tapes and includes two extra tracks not available on the CD and digital versions of the album.

 

You Should Be So Lucky is a dynamic and distinguished album of songs written almost entirely by Tench over the course of his thirty-seven year career not only as keyboardist and founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, but as a first call musician for artists from Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan to The Rolling Stones and Elvis Costello; from the Jayhawks and Ryan Adams to Fiona Apple and John Prine. The only non-originals are covers of the traditional “Corrina, Corrina” and the Bob Dylan track “Duquesne Whistle” from 2012’s Tempest.

 

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[lexicondevil]

Not going to preorder, but will definitely be picking this up at a record store.

[iamweisser]

This is a really neat release from a guy who probably has a bunch of good records up his sleeve. Really looking forward to giving the full thing listen and seeing what else he puts out in the years ahead.

 

From a short piece in RollingStone:

 

"Originally we had Ringo set to play drums on it, but there was some kind of mix-up about dates and we were under the gun, so Jeremy Stacey stayed on the kit," Tench tells Rolling Stone. "The next day Ringo rang up and said, ‘Let's cut it!’ And we had a perfectly good take, but it was missing a certain something. I asked him to come put some jangle on it, he turned up 20 minutes later with a canvas bag full of tambourines, played it twice, and suddenly it all came into focus. He's really something, that Ringo!" - Benmont Tench 

[dreamover]

How is this album???

 

http://www.metacritic.com/music/you-should-be-so-lucky/benmont-tench