New "Solo" Bill Wyman Album ; Back To Basics.
Release Date ; 22 Jun. 2015
1. What & How & If & When & Why
2. I Lost My Ring
3. Love, Love, Love
4. Stuff (Can't Get Enough) (Back To Basics Version 2015)
5. Running Back To You
6. She's Wonderful
7. Seventeen (Back To Basics Version 2015)
8. I'll Pull You Through (Back To Basics Version 2015)
9. November
10. Just A Friend Of Mine
11. It's A Lovely Day
12. I Got Time
Back To Basics does exactly what it says on the tin. It is unashamedly
stripped back. The snappy lyrics are refreshingly audible and the
instrumentation is clean, subtle and accomplished.
Back
To Basics wears its influences on its sleeve – Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen,
JJ Cale – and there's more than a passing nod to Bill's own English
background. It is that rare thing, a meld of styles and genres that
actually work together - uplifting in a jaunty, dancey way and pensive
in a bluesy, narrative way.
As might be expected from one of
the world's best known bass players Back To Basics drives along with a
rhythmic muscularity, and then slows the pace for more autobiographical
lyric and melody. It is an album that warrants repeated play. It is
also an album that's long overdue…
Bill Wyman's last solo UK
album, Bill Wyman, was released in 1982. Back To Basics comprises only
his fourth UK solo release. But Bill has not been idle of course. 31
years in the Rolling Stones, author of seven learned books, globally
exhibited photographer, metal detecting expert with his own brand of
metal detector, producer, composer for film and TV and founder of the
very successful Rhythm Kings who release CDs and tour regularly - he has
had a pretty full calendar. It was only when archiving old demos last
year he realised he had around 60 songs he'd never released. He chose
three songs that needed reworking and did just that. He put them
together with a bunch of brand new songs and went into his studio to
record them.
The CD comprises 12 tracks in total, eight of
which are new songs. Musicians joining Bill in the studio include long
time collaborator/guitarist Terry Taylor, Guy Fletcher (Mark Knopfler),
Graham Broad and Robbie McIntosh while co-production credit goes to Andy
Wright (Jeff Beck, Eurythmics, Simply Red).
On Bill Wyman's Back To Basics you get music that's the real deal...and you're all the better for it.
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