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Ian Sweet: Sucker

On November 3, 2023, “Polyvinyl Record Co.” label released “Sucker”, the fourth Ian Sweet studio album. It was recorded in 2023, at “Outliner Inn” in New York, and was produced by Ian Sweet, Alex Craig, and Isaac Eiger.

Personnel:

  • Jilian Medford (Ian Sweet) – vocals, guitar, synthesizer
  • Alex Craig – guitar, synthesizer
  • Isaac Eiger – guitar, synthesizer, piano

Track listing:

All tracks by Jilian Medford and Alex Craig.

  1. Bloody Knees
  2. Smoking Again
  3. Emergency Contact
  4. Sucker
  5. Comeback
  6. Your Spit
  7. Clean
  8. Fight
  9. Slowdance
  10. Hard

B’z: Hihgway X

On August 10, 2022, “Vermillion” label released “Highway X”, the twenty-second B’z studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Tak Matsumoto.

Personnel:

  • Koshi Inaba – vocals
  • Tak Matsumoto – guitars, backing vocals
  • Akira Onozuka – piano, organ, Wurlitzer, synthesizer
  • Ken Kawamura – organ, theremin, synthesizer
  • Yukihide “YT” Takiyama – bass
  • Rhonda Smith – bass
  • Takeshi Taneda – bass
  • Brian Tichy – drums
  • Tom Tamada – drums
  • Watanabe Fire – tenor saxophone
  • Takahiro Miyazaki – baritone saxophone
  • Osamu Ueishi – trumpet
  • Motoko Hasegawa – trumpet
  • Azusa Tojo – trombone
  • Nobu Saito – tambourine, reco-reco, conga, cowbell, wind chimes, shaker, triangle
  • Mai Origami – backing vocals
  • MissTy – backing vocals
  • Yuki Asanuma – backing vocals
  • Michiya Nakahara – backing vocals
  • Rie Kodera with Lime Ladies Orchestra – strings
  • Yukihide “YT” Takiyama – arrangements, recording
  • Yoshinobu Ohga – arrangements
  • Hideyuki Terachi – arrangements, vocal direction
  • Hiroyuki Kobayashi – recording, mixing

Track listing:

All lyrics by Koshi Inaba; all music by Tak Matsumoto.

  1. Sleepless
  2. Hard Rain Love
  3. Comeback – Itoshiki Hahen
  4. Yes Yes Yes
  5. Highway X
  6. Mamirena
  7. Yamate Doori ni Kaze
  8. Live
  9. Daydream
  10. Unite
  11. You Are My Best

Tina Turner

On May 24, 2023, Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner died aged 83. She was singer, author, dancer and actress, referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, began her career with Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm in 1957. In 1958, under the name Little Ann, she released her first record, “Boxtop”. In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the duet single “A Fool in Love”. The duo Ike & Tina Turner became “one of the most formidable live acts in history”. In the 1980s, Turner made a great comeback, and in the decades that followed she sold over 100 million records worldwide, and became one of  the best-selling recording artists of all time. She won twelve “Grammy Awards”, three “Grammy Hall of Fame” awards and a “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award”. Magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked her among the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” and the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”. She was twice inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. In 2005, she was recipient of the “Kennedy Center Honors” and “Women of the Year” award. As leader Tina Turner released nine albums.

Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert

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On January 13, 1973, Eric Clapton held a concert at the “London’s Rainbow Theatre”. The concert was organised by Pete Townshend and marked Clapton’s comeback after two years of inactivity caused by drug addiction and,broken only by his performance at the “Concert for Bangladesh” in August 1971. Along with Townshend, the musicians supporting Clapton include Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and Jim Capaldi. On September 10, 1973, “RSO” label released album titled “Eric Clapton’s Rainbow concert”.