Blind Pig Records has released a new album from Ray Manzarek, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Roy Rogers, world renowned slide guitar master and Grammy winning producer. The CD, entitled Translucent Blues was released in May of 2011.
The release is a hard driving blues/rock project with influences from blues, rock
and jazz and lyrics that include tinges of poetry and literature. A contemporary
recording with soul, intensity and creative energy, the album features songs with
multi-layered arrangements, solid driving grooves and stylistic depth. They are
energetic and strong - with music and lyric collaborations from Manzarek and
Rogers, and lyric contributions from the likes of Warren Zevon, Jim Carroll and
poet Michael McClure.
Ray Manzarek said of the album, "This is a head-first dive into American
contemporary Blues. Roy and I take the unique art form of the Blues and add a
21st century twist to the genre. We are working with a group of great American
poets: Michael McClure, famed beat and close friend of Jack Kerouac and
Alan Ginsburg; Jim Carroll of 'The Basketball Diaries' fame; Warren Zevon - the
'Werewolf of London' himself; Michael C. Ford, noted L.A. jazz poet and good
friend of Jim Morrison's; and Scott Richardson, blues rocker of Michigan's 'The
Scott Richardson Case' and now a California seeker of ultimate mystical
experiences. Their lyrics are superb, succinct, now, and salient. What Roy and I
have weaved around their words are songs that are not standard 12 bar, but do, in
fact, live and breathe in the dark, underground world... of the Blues! 'Translucent
Blues'"
Roy Rogers added, "This collaboration with Ray was a joy from start to finish.
We found inspiration not only from the music and lyrics, but most of all from
each other--to create a great sound. To me, the blues is as complex a music
as it gets--either you feel it or you don't. But when you add the spice of some
of these lyrics, it definitely takes you on a different route. Take a ride with us."
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