The Rides - Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Barry Goldberg - Announce Debut Album
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
The Rides - the new all-star blues rock supergroup featuring guitarist Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield, CSN, Crosby Stills Nash & Young), guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd and keyboardist Barry Goldberg (Electric Flag) release their debut album 'Can’t Get Enough' on CD, digitial download, and vinyl in the UK on August 26 via Provogue Records.
Produced by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), the generation-spanning trio has co-written originals and recorded covers of classics by Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Neil Young andIggy and the Stooges. 'Can’t Get Enough' was inspired by - and is an homage to - the now classic 1968 album 'Super Session', which featured Stills on guitar on one side, and the late Mike Bloomfield on the other (Bloomfield had founded Electric Flag with Goldberg, who also played on Super Session, as did Blood, Sweat & Tears keyboardist Al Kooper).
Described by Stills as "the blues band of my dreams", the project began with Stills and Goldberg writing together at their mutual manager Elliot Roberts’ recommendation. Goldberg (who hadn’t met Stills before, their shared 1968 credit notwithstanding) says:
"It was like finding a long lost soul brother. We connected on so many things, started jamming, and soon had begun writing our first song."
When Kenny Wayne Shepherd arrived, The Rides’ three-way chemistry immediately clicked. 35-year-old, Shepherd, who’s had six Number 1 Blues albums, explains:
"The Rides are a perfect mix of generations, where three musicians who love and play the blues collide and create music that goes beyond all our other individual life experiences and career achievement. Stephen and I have rock backgrounds as well, but the blues is the fabric that holds this all together."
That exhilarating creative sorcery blasts through ten tracks, four of them Stills, Shepherd, Goldberg co-writes, including the album-opening barnburner Roadhouse - about the life of an itinerant bluesman - the melodic, CSN-esque Don’t Want Lies, and the title track, a groove soaked, guitar-heavy anthem with a soul-baring lead vocal by Stills. Other highlights include a Crazy Horse-calibre interpretation of Rockin’ in the Free World. "Everyone gets off on this one," says Goldberg, "it’s just a ton of electricity on this Neil Young classic."
The Rides embark on a world tour beginning in September, with UK November dates to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Check back to Stereoboard for details.
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Produced by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), the generation-spanning trio has co-written originals and recorded covers of classics by Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Neil Young andIggy and the Stooges. 'Can’t Get Enough' was inspired by - and is an homage to - the now classic 1968 album 'Super Session', which featured Stills on guitar on one side, and the late Mike Bloomfield on the other (Bloomfield had founded Electric Flag with Goldberg, who also played on Super Session, as did Blood, Sweat & Tears keyboardist Al Kooper).
