The Waterboys announce particulars of their sixteenth studio album

The Waterboys announce particulars of their sixteenth studio album, Life, Loss of life And Dennis Hopper.

Out on Solar Data this April, it guarantees to be essentially the most audacious Waterboys album but and tells the epic story of the trailblazing American actor and insurgent via a tune cycle depicting not solely Hopper’s story however the saga of the final 75 years of western popular culture.

“The arc of his life was the story of our occasions,” says Mike Scott. “He was on the large bang of youth tradition in Insurgent With out A Trigger with James Dean; and the beginnings of Pop Artwork with the younger Andy Warhol. He was a part of the counter-culture, hippie, civil rights and psychedelic scenes of the 60s. Within the 70s and 80s he went on a wild 10-year rip, nearly died, got here again, bought straight and have become a five-movies-a-year character actor with out shedding the glint in his eye or the sense of hazard or unpredictability that at all times gathered round him.”

Life, Loss of life And Dennis Hopper

Scott has labored for 4 years on Life, Loss of life And Dennis Hopper. Produced with Waterboys bandmates Well-known James and Brother Paul, the album spans 25 tracks and traces the extraordinary arc of Hopper’s life. “It begins in his childhood, ends the morning after his dying, and I get to say a complete lot alongside the way in which, not nearly Dennis, however about the entire unusual journey of being a human soul on planet Earth,” says Scott.

Alongside Scott’s masterful songwriting, the album encompasses a stellar lineup of visitors together with Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Steve Earle, Nashville-based Alt Americana artist Anana Kaye, younger English singer Barny Fletcher, Norwegian country-rockers Sugarfoot, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s, and punk arch-priestess Patti Palladin.

Tracklisting

1 Kansas (that includes Steve Earle)
2 Hollywood ’55
3 Reside In The Second, Child
4 Brooke / 1712 North Crescent Heights
5 Andy (A Man Like You)
6 The Vacationer (that includes Barny Fletcher)
7 Freaks On Wheels
8 Blues For Terry Southern
9 Reminiscences Of Monterey
10 Using Down To Mardi Gras
11 Hopper’s On High (Genius)
12 Transcendental Peruvian Blues
13 Michelle (All the time Keep)
14 Freakout At The Mud Palace
15 Daria
16 Ten Years Gone (that includes Bruce Springsteen)
17 Letter From An Unknown Girlfriend (that includes Fiona Apple)
18 Rock Backside
19 I Don’t Know How I Made It (that includes Taylor Goldsmith)
20 Frank (Let’s Fu*okay)
21 Katherine (that includes Anana Kaye)
22 Everyone Loves Dennis Hopper
23 Golf, They Say
24 Venice, California (Victoria)/The Passing Of Hopper
25 Aftermath

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