Mick Fleetwood is releasing a blues album with “the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele”

From Loudersound.

Fleetwood Mac legend Mick Fleetwood has joined forces with renowned ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro to record a blues album. Blues Experience will arrive on October 18 via Forty Below Records, and is preceded by the pair’s version of the delta blues classic Rollin’ N Tumblin’, a song made famous via earlier versions by the likes of Muddy WatersCream and RL Burnside.

“Jake and I had a full let-it-all-go moment on this one!” says Fleetwood. “Jake let his hair down. A blues standard being given a wake-up call!”

Shimabukuro, who, we’re reliably informed, is known as “the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele”, first met Fleetwood at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (Hawaiian Music Awards) in the late 1990s. He has also worked with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Jimmy Buffett, Jack Johnson, Bette Midler, Ziggy Marley, Sonny Landreth, Billy Strings, Lukas & Willie Nelson and Warren Haynes.
Other songs recorded for the album include covers of Procul Harum‘s A Whiter Shade of PaleNeil Young‘s Rockin’ in the Free World, and a version of Christine McVie‘s classic Songbird.

“I remember Mick took a moment of silence after the song ended and you could see that he felt Christine’s presence,” says Shimabukuro. “I felt so fortunate to be able to experience that with Mick. It was very powerful to see the effect it had on him.”

Mick Fleetwood and Jake Shimabukuro: Blues Experience tracklist

1 Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
2 Rollin’ N Tumblin’
3 Need Your Love So Bad
4 Kula Blues
5 Whiter Shade of Pale
6 I Wanna Get Funky
7 Still Got The Blues
8 Rockin’ In The Free World
9 Songbird
10 Songbird (Mick spoken word)

Explore eil.com & 991.com sister – the world’s best online store for rare, collectable & out of print Vinyl Records, CDs & Music memorabilia since 1987.

EIL.COM Favourite Music Update Rare CDs, CD Singles, Rare Records, Vinyl Records, Albums and Music

    Feed has no items.

 

Shop for these and other rare vinyl records on RareVinyl.com
Got vinyl records or a Record Collection to sell? Sell to Vinyl-Wanted.com

Be the first to comment

We want your comments please!