With the early summer release of their sunny anthem “West Coast Eyes,” the Southern roots rockers ROBERT JON & THE WRECK have announced Ride Into The Light, their seventh studio album, due August 4th 2023 via Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records.
Packed with blistering blues-rock and sun-soaked Americana ballads, Ride Into The Light is expected to be super-abundant, spiritually enrapturing, and pure rock ‘n’ roll delectation.
Revivifying their traditional production processes, The Wreck this time teamed-up with the legendary producers Don Was (John Mayer, Bonnie Raitt), Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton), Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, The Black Crowes), and guitar maestros Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith (Marc Broussard, Eric Gales, Joanne Shaw Taylor). As a result, the band’s musicianship & composition skills have further improved, and their new album pays respectful homage to legendary country-rock outfits such as The Allman Brothers Band, Eagles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
lemony peppery with just the right amount of satin sentimentality…
Raw Ramp Music Magazine
Robert Jon Burrison (lead vocals, guitar), Andrew Espantman (drums, background vocals), Henry James Schneekluth (lead guitar, background vocals), and Warren Murrel (bass) have been inspiring audiences all around the world with their dazzling guitar leads, luxurious vocal harmonies, and their husky super-memorable tunes. Recently, keyboardist Jake Abernathie joined the band as an official member.
RAW RAMP has described their sound as: trustable rock ‘n’ roll with enormous power-sliding expositions, barrels of mashfat vocals, jim-dandy rhythms, backwashing keys, and humming bass notes.
“West Coast Eyes” is summery glad, with a timelessly serene feel to it, and seductive velveted guitar. Robert Jon’s vocal is like marmalade and coconut cream: lemony peppery with just the right amount of satin sentimentality.
“We met with the legendary Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy), who’s written songs with a lot of great artists,” shares frontman Robert Jon Burrison.
“A few weeks later we went into Sunset Sound in LA with Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith as our producers…[and] it evolved into a bit of tribute to the LA session musician scene through the years, combining elements from a few different decades and wound up being a really fun sonic experiment. Joe and Josh were also great to be around, providing a lot of fun musical suggestions and of course some top-notch vintage guitar gear!”
File alongside: Take it Easy era Eagles
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