The brand new album will characteristic 15 totally different covers of songs that the previous Jam man says he has “carried with him for years.”
Paul Weller has introduced new covers album Discover El Dorado, which is ready to launch on July 25 and can embrace a cover of ‘One Last Cold Kiss’, a track made well-known on this a part of the world by Christy Moore.
The English singer’s 15-track report additionally characteristic covers of The Kinks, The Bee Gees, and The Flying Burrito Brothers.
‘One Last Cold Kiss’ was written by songwriters Gail Collins and Felix Pappalardi and featured on Moore’s Traveller (1999) album. Felix Pappalardi was bassist with the band Mountain, whose largest hit was with ‘Mississippi Queen’, which reached No.21 within the US Billboard charts, in 1970. Pappalardi was shot and killed by his spouse – and co-writer of ‘One Last Cold Kiss’ – Gail Collins Pappalardi, on 17 April 1983. she was convicted of “criminally negligent murder.”
Discover El Dorado was recorded in Weller’s Black Barn Studio in Surrey and is described as a “a map of his emotional and musical DNA” that sees him “revisit songs which have lengthy lived at the back of his thoughts – now reimagined with contemporary that means and a way of reverence.”
“These are songs I’ve carried with me for years,” the previous Jam frontman defined. “They’ve taken on new shapes over time. And now felt just like the second to share them.”
The report is known as after Derry singer Eamon Friel’s monitor ‘El Dorado’, which additionally options on the album and was recorded by Weller with Noel Gallagher enjoying guitar.
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You will discover the complete tracklist under:
Handouts within the Rain (Richie Havens)
Small City Speak (Bobby Charles)
El Dorado (Eamon Friel)
White Line Fever (The Flying Burrito Brothers)
One Last Cold Kiss (Christy Moore)
When you find yourself a King (White Plains)
Pinball (Brian Protheroe)
The place there’s Smoke, There’s Hearth (Willie Griffin)
I Began a Joke (Bee Gees)
By no means the Identical (Lal and Mike Waterson)
Lawdy Rolla (The Guerrillas)
No person’s Idiot (The Kinks)
Journey (Duncan Browne)
Daltry Avenue (Jake Fletcher / PP Arnold)
Clive’s Track (Hamish Imlach)
