Blood Chet And Tears (Verve By Request) TSOV-302.3; impassioned performances of a dozen

impassioned performances of a dozen spirituals and blues numbers

Soilwork singer Björn Strid

The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City features a very special guest: bassist Tommy Stinson (The Replacements/Bash & Pop/ Guns N Roses)

While recording their first album in 2014

a beautiful and intimate musical articulation of internal struggle and continues with the playfully tongue-in-cheek "Boo Hoo

Blood Chet And Tears (Verve By Request) TSOV-302.3; impassioned performances of a dozenSomewhat of an oddity in Chet Bakers catalog, Blood, Chet & Tears is a record of Chets efforts to adapt to the changing musical landscape around him in 1970. Baker leans into light and easy listening territory. His renditions of the Beatles Something and The Archies Sugar, Sugar gives some indication as to who he was intending to appeal to. On a different note, Bakers rendition of Come Saturday Morning, a song that received an Oscar nomination for