''North Hollywood Shootout'' is American
jam band
A jam band is a musical group whose concerts (and live albums) are characterized by lengthy improvisational "jams." These include extended musical improvisation over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music which often cr ...
Blues Traveler's tenth studio album, released on August 26, 2008, and produced by David Bianco, a
1996 Grammy winner. In a notable departure from previous Blues Traveler releases, the album includes a
spoken word
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piece featuring
Bruce Willis.
This album marked the band's return to
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its ...
, which owns their previous label
A&M Records, and also their current label,
Verve Forecast Records
Verve Forecast is a record label formed as a division of Verve Records to concentrate on pop, rock, and folk music.
Founding
Jerry Schoenbaum of Verve and Moe Asch of Folkways created Verve Folkways in 1964 to take advantage of the popularity ...
(along with the catalog of
Sanctuary Records, another label the band was on at one point).
History
During early writing and production of this album, the members of Blues Traveler began to experiment with re-arrangements of various older songs, and put this album on hold to record ''
Cover Yourself
''Cover Yourself'' is Blues Traveler's ninth album. It contains previously released songs reworked with acoustic instrumentation and, for some songs, different arrangements from the originals.
History
As early as 1998, Blues Traveler expressed ...
'' for their twentieth anniversary. The recording sessions for the two albums were held back-to-back.
Track listing
Early reports cite the disc as having 11 tracks, but the supposedly official track listing released to amazon.com had only 10 tracks listed on it. However, a later version of the track listing released on the Barnes and Noble website included the supposedly missing 11th track (apparently track 10), "The Landing,"
along with a 30-second sample of the song. "The Landing" eventually became an iTunes exclusive song.
Personnel
* John Popper - vocals, harmonica
* Chandler Kinchla - guitars
* Ben Wilson - Keyboards
* Tad Kinchla - Bass
* Brendan Hill - Drums
* Bruce Willis - Vocals, harmonica on "Free Willis"
* Dave Ralicke - Baritone, Tenor and Alto Sax
* Jordan Katz - Trumpet
See also
*
North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Ang ...
References
2008 albums
Blues Traveler albums
Verve Forecast Records albums
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