FooArchive have 5 copies of the newly released debut CD by Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants. If your in the UK & want to be in with a chance of winning one, e-mail fooarchive@gmail.com with the subject line ‘SHIFLETT’ and I’ll pick 5 at random on Saturday.
Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants will release their eponymous debut album on July 12, 2010 on Columbia Records UK
Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants is a new project from Shiflett, already known as the lead guitarist for Foo Fighters and the frontman for Jackson United. Steeped in his love for classic country artists (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings), rockabilly (Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran), and deep-rooted rock bands (The Rolling Stones, The Replacements), this new album is packed with soulful pedal steel- and twang guitar-accented songs. The album highlights his talent and versatility not only as a skillful guitarist, but also as a songwriter. These infectious Americana-laced rock songs are some of the best he’s penned, from the chiming keys and buoyant, ringing guitars of “Get Along” to the pedal steel- and mandolin-lined heartache of “Bandaged,” and from the spry, Old 97s-ian “Baby, Let It Out” to the rueful country swing of “Death March.”
Shiflett wrote the songs on Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants over the course of 2008-9, inspiration first striking when a friend asked him to perform at Orange County’s punk-rockabilly Hootenanny festival in 2008. After re-immersing himself in his Americana and old country music collection to prepare a short set – and then playing a brief acoustic tour with friend Joey Cape of Lagwagon – he began writing what eventually became the new album. Recorded at the Foo Fighters’ Studio 606 in Los Angeles, CA, this past December and January, the core band on Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants is Shiflett (vocals, guitar), 606 house engineer John Lousteau (drums, in addition to engineering), and Derek Silverman (keyboards). The album’s additional instrumentation was performed by an array of fine musicians, including Davey Faragher (Elvis Costello and The Imposters, Jenny Lewis, John Hiatt) on bass, Greg Leisz (Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Whiskeytown) on pedal steel, Stevie Blacke (Beck, Weezer, Colbie Caillat) on violin and mandolin, and Audra Mae on backing vocals.
Track listing for Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants:
Helsinki
Get Along
Bandaged
God Damn
Burning Lights (Joe Strummer cover)
An Atheist’s Player
Not Going Down Alone
Baby, Let It Out
Death March
European Summer tour news will be announced soon.
The August issue of Q magazine is on shelves now and features the ‘Hot List – 50 Reasons Why This Summer Will Rock’. Number 2 on the list is ‘Dave Grohl: what’s next?’
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On Monday May 31st @ 15:00 BBC 6 Music broadcasts ‘The John Bonham Story’ narrated by Dave Grohl.
Rock superstar and lifelong Led Zeppelin fan, Dave Grohl, celebrates a man who the Encyclopedia Britannica describes as “the perfect model for all hard rock drummers that have followed.”
Get more info (and listen to the show once it’s aired) here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00slsdw
John Paul Jones is in the hot seat for this month’s ‘An Audience With…’ in Uncut magazine (A feature Dave himself took part in 3 years ago) and one of the questions this time around comes from Dave:
One Butthole Surfers anecdote, please?
Dave Grohl
Ha! I was brought in to produce the Butthol Surfers’ 1993 album, Independent Worm Saloon. I uess it was to give it a heavy rock vibe, but it didn’t work like that. They were actually incredibly hard-working in the studio, but I recall running up a phenomenal bar-bill at the Sun Rafael studio. And then there was Gibby and his… eccentric studio behaviour. Gibby did one vocal take shouting into his guitar. He held it out in front of his face and screamed at it. Ha! He was trying to find out if it picked up through the pick-ups, which it kind of did. And that was pretty good.
And amongst the other questions put to John Paul Jones was one from me:
If Them Crooked Vultures had Spice Girls-like nicknames what would they be?
Paul Jones, Liverpool
Dave would be Smiley Vulture. He can’t stop grinning. Josh would be Slinky Vulture. He’s a slinky kinda guy. And I’d be Speedy, I guess. Or Jumpy. So there you go. Smiley, Slinky and Speedy. Or does that sound more like the dwarfs?
The Music Week
Sunday 31 January
1.00-2.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
The Music Week speaks to superband-of-the-moment Them Crooked Vultures.
Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, and Queen Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme grant Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen an audience backstage at their recent Hammersmith Apollo gig. They talk through their shared musical past and look to the future and the possibility of a second album.
Dave was on the cover of Q’s last issue and this month he’s back with an exclusive Them Crooked Vultures interview/photoshoot.
Q 283 is on shelves December 31st with Cheryl Cole as it’s cover star.
BBC1 – Friday 4 December, 10.35pm
This week Jonathan Ross welcomes: Reese Witherspoon; Gordon Ramsay; screen siren Sophia Loren; BBC Three Good News star Russell Howard; and there’s music from Dave Grohl’s supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.
Them Crooked Vultures
November 16th sees the release of Them Crooked Vultures self-titled debut and FooArchive has 5 copies to give away.
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.
Before then check out the full album streaming on the band’s YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/themcrookedvultures