Rock legend, guitar virtuoso Peter Frampton announces a new album, All Blues, set for release on June 7. The album is composed of his favorites blues classics, recorded with his longtime touring band made up of Adam Lester (guitar/vocals), Rob Arthur (keyboards, guitar/vocals) and Dan Wojciechowski (drums.) Peter Frampton remains one of the most lauded artists in rock history.
Frampton explains in the album’s press release, “I have always loved to play the blues. When we formed Humble Pie, the first material we played together was just that. For the last two summers I had been playing a handful of blues numbers every night on stage with Steve Miller Band. I enjoyed this immensely and it gave me the idea of doing an ‘All Blues’ album live in the studio with my band.”
The first song to be released from the new album is “I Just Want To Make Love To You” featuring Kim Wilson. The song is available now with digital album pre-order.
Listen to “I Just Want To Make Love To You” HERE
All Blues was recorded at Frampton’s studio in Nashville, Studio Phenix, and was co-produced by Frampton and Chuck Ainlay. The album features additional collaborations with Larry Carlton, Sonny Landreth and Steve Morse.
Frampton continues, “We started the resulting sessions 9 days after coming off the road last year. Over a two-week period, we recorded 23 tracks, all live in the studio. The energy of these tracks is completely different from building a track one instrument at a time. With this recording, we pay tribute to all the original artists who invented this incredible music. I hope you can hear and feel our enjoyment. I’m not sure if you can say we had fun playing the blues. But we definitely did.”
In conjunction with the album’s release, Frampton will kick off Peter Frampton Finale—The Farewell Tour presented by SiriusXM—an approximately 50-date run this summer and fall produced by Live Nation. Frampton will retire from regular vigorous touring at the end of this year due to his diagnosis of the autoimmune disease Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM). IBM is a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness and atrophy. Frampton recently discussed his diagnosis with CBS “This Morning: Saturday;” watch the segment HERE.
The tour will feature special guest Jason Bonham‘s Led Zeppelin Evening, as well as Julian Frampton on the west coast stops, with additional surprise guests to appear on select dates. Tickets are on sale now and VIP packages will also be available at www.frampton.com. $1 of every ticket sold, as well as any donations, will benefit The Peter Frampton Myositis Research Fund at Johns Hopkins, a newly established fund by Frampton and Johns Hopkins, where he’s being treated.
ALL BLUES TRACK LISTING
- I Just Want To Make Love To You (featuring Kim Wilson)
- She Caught The Katy
- Georgia On My Mind
- Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover
- Me And My Guitar
- All Blues (featuring Larry Carlton)
- The Thrill Is Gone (featuring Sonny Landreth)
- Going Down Slow (featuring Steve Morse)
- I’m A King Bee
- Same Old Blues
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They all return to the blues eventually……
I bet he plays the blues outstanding.I really hate to be negative. But I have to speak my peace about all these high profile artists going back to do a blues album.
I just wish when artists go for a blues cover album they would stop picking the same old songs.So we really need another cover of The Thrill Gone and Going Down ect. It would have really been cool if he wrote some original blues material. Or at least some some deep cuts like Walter Trout did.
Just my preference I guess there is still a marketplace for the blues greatest hits being played over and over.