View basket “Friends” has been added to your basket. Dear America Eric Bibb SKU: PRD76471 Barcode: 810020504194 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue Released Date: 17th March 2023 Buying Format: 180g 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info A blues troubadour writes a heartfelt letter to his home country! With guest performances by Ron Carter, Shaneeka Simon, Eric Gales, Chuck Campbell and others Dear America, blues veteran Eric Bibb’s first album for Provogue Records, is available everywhere from September 10, 2021. If you could call out to your country, what would you say? When Eric Bibb embarked on the title song that would galvanize his latest album, Dear America, the songwriter found himself unpacking a seven-decade relationship with a partner of dramatic extremes. Bibb has known many different Americas, the good, the bad and the ugly. Born in New York City on August 16th, 1951, the thunderbolt of the Sixties folk revival remains an era so alive in the 69-year-old’s memory. Yet just as vivid are the dark societal flashpoints of the last year, when protesters highlighted the open wound of U.S. race relations while a bitter Presidential election scrawled jagged battlelines. “This album is a love letter,” Bibb explains of the record’s root concept, “because America, for all of its associations with pain and its bloody history, has always been a place of incredible hope and optimism. You see young people now and it’s amazing, with the whole Black Lives Matter movement. All of those things let me know that there is a kind of reverberation from that Sixties energy. You can’t keep a good thing down.” Recorded before the pandemic shuttered the world’s recording studios, the chemistry on Dear America is palpable, with each musician playing with the emotional commitment demanded by the material. In November 2019, the bandleader hit Brooklyn’s Studio G to track the album with producer/co-writer Glen Scott, along with a studio band featuring the talismanic drummer Steve Jordan and Memphis guitar sensation Eric Gales. What resulted is a thoughtful record that brings Bibb full circle, taking the pulse of these febrile times while returning the songwriter to his proud roots in New York. “My home now is Sweden,” says Bibb, “But New York City was where I came of age. So to be there, recording this album that had so much to do with my whole journey — it was really inspiring.” And yet, just as the history of the United States has both light and shade, so does Dear America. It’s a record that laces its exploration of the nation’s most poisonous issues with hope, love and a brighter road ahead. All is not lost, stresses Bibb, and neither are we. Bibb leaves no doubt that the future is ours to write. Artist Eric Bibb Genre Blues Label Provogue Buying Options 180g 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 180g , 2LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A 1. Whole Lotta Lovin' (feat. Ron Carter) 2. Born Of A Woman (feat. Shaneeka Simon) 3. Whole World's Got The Blues (feat. Eric Gales) Side B 1. Dear America 2. Different Picture (feat. Chuck Campbell) 3. Tell Yourself Side C 1. Emmett's Ghost (feat. Ron Carter) 2. White & Black 3. Along The Way 4. Talkin' 'Bout A Train, Pt. 1 (feat. Billy Branch) Side D 1. Talkin' 'Bout A Train, Pt. 2 2. Love's Kingdom (feat. Tommy Sims & Glen Scott) 3. One-ness Of Love (feat. 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