Mike Zito -First Class Life -RUF RECORDS CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Mississippi Nights"

02. "First Class Life"

03. "I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treat Me)"

04. "The World We Live In"

05. "Mama Don't Like No Wah Wah"

06. "Old Black Graveyard"

07. "Dying Day"

08. "Back Problems"

09. "Time For A Change"

10. "Damn Shame"

11. "Trying To Make A Living"

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First Class Life is een passende titel voor het nieuwe album van man die zijn veelbelovende carriÃ¨re bijna verwoest zag worden door verslaving en nu geniet van zijn gezin, muziek en carriÃ¨re. Sinds zijn debuut Blue Room in 1997 heeft die carriÃ¨re vele hoogtepunten gekend. Van het openhartige Greyhound uit 2011, via zijn bijdragen aan de Amerikaanse supergroep Royal Southern Brotherhood tot soloalbums als Gone To Texas (2013), Keep Coming Back (2015) en Make Blues Not War (2016). Met de missie om de lat hoger te leggen ging Mike Zito met een aantal muzikanten de studio in zijn achtertuin in voor de opnamesessies. Drie dagen was de bedoeling, maar na de eerste dag waren de opnamen klaar. First Class Life is een album gemaakt met passie, plezier en energie waarop zijn sociale observaties en zelfreflecties scherper zijn dan ooit. Heerlijke slow-blues (The World We Live In) wordt afgewisseld met elektrische blues (Dying Day) en donkerdere momenten als Mama Don't Like No Wah Wah, dat mede werd geschreven door Bernard Allison. -

2018 release. Blues-rock is a tightrope - and Mike Zito has never lost his footing. At times in his storied two-decade career, the Texas bandleader has rolled up the amps and rocked as hard as anyone. Yet his lifelong fascination with the blues has always reeled him back in. And now, having shaken the rafters with 2016's acclaimed Make Blues Not War, First Class Life finds Mike diving deep into the only genre that can do justice to his hard-won true stories of hardship and redemption. "Make Blues was pretty extreme and rocking," he reflects. "This time, I was definitely thinking more blues." First Class Life is a fitting album title from a man who remembers the hard times. "The title track is a nod to where I've come from and where I'm at," explains the songwriter whose promising early career was almost destroyed by addiction. "It's a rags-to-riches story, and it's certainly true. I grew up poor in St. Louis, and now I'm travelling the world to sing my songs. In the world of excess America, I may not look 'rich', but in my world, I most certainly am. I have a beautiful family, I'm clean and sober, and I get to play music."

?&© 2018 Ruf Records GmbH. Duration not listed on release. Trifold digipak with 4-page Ruf Records catalog 2018. Recorded in Nederland, TX in November 2017. Track 3 published by Universal MCA Music Publishing. Track 11 published by Lennie LaCour Music Inc. All other tracks published by Little Big Musikverlag/GEMA aka Bad Love Music/BMI.

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2912532RFR

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