New York City singer-songwriter Jeff Slate has announced the whopping 43-song tracklist for his new album, Lockdown Live, recorded live during Slate's #StayHome online concert series during the COVID-19 enforced Lockdown this year.
The songs on Disc One include nine original songs by Slate from throughout his solo career, as well as during his tenure with The Badge, the band he founded in 1997, the song “My Dolly,” which he co-wrote with Simon Townshend for his 1993 The Townshend Tapes, as well as songs by Tom Petty, George Harrison, John Prine, Warren Zevon, Lord Huron, Marvin Gaye and others. Disc Two includes nineteen songs written by Bob Dylan (plus one Traveling Wilburys number).
Disc One:
I Won’t Back Down
Baby, Forgive Me
My Dolly
Comes A Broken Heart
This Is Love
Who’ll Stop The Rain
Lucky Day Sunset
Letter From Paris (Showed Me The Way)
Alone Tonight
A Little Piece Of Me
Wild Horses
California Blue
San Francisco Days
The Night We Met
Long Monday
Reconsider Me
Unfinished Business
The Ghost In You
Let My Love Open The Door
All Or Nothing
Less Than What You See
What’s Going On
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?
Disc Two:
Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
The Mighty Quinn
The Man In Me
Mr. Tambourine Man
My Back Pages
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Handle With Care
If Not For You
Lay Lady Lay
Tangled Up In Blue
If You See Her Say Hello
Idiot Wind
Every Grain Of Sand
Ring Them Bells
Forever Young
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
All Along the Watchtower
Like A Rolling Stone
I Shall Be Released
Slate announced the August 14th release of Lockdown Live on CD and download, plus related merchandise, with profits to benefit social justice causes, last month. The recordings are drawn from his online shows, which began airing weekly via Facebook Live and Instagram Live on April 4th, and which included a special edition for Martin Guitar's “Jam In Place” online series. They’ve been a smashing success, with recent shows garnering over 6,000 views in just a few days four days. Slate has played over 100 different songs during the series, including originals from his Birds Of Paradox (2012), Imposters & Attractions (2013) and Secret Poetry (2016) solo albums, his 1993 EP The Townshend Tapes, for which The Who’s Pete Townshend acted as executive producer, songs he wrote for the band he founded in the 1990s, The Badge, and covers from artists as diverse as Tom Petty and John Prine to the Psychedelic Furs and the Boomtown Rats.
Slate has donated 100% of the proceeds from the sales of his merchandise – as well as signed copies of releases by The Beatles, Bob Dylan and others on which he wrote the liner notes, and The Authorized Roy Orbison, the book Slate co-authored with the late-legend’s sons – to Meals Of Gratitude, Black Lives Matter, the North Star Fund, Justice For Julius, the Black Artist Fund and others, while covering the shipping costs out of his own pocket.
Pre-orders for the August 14th release on CD and download, as well as Lockdown Live T-shirts and bundles including the CD and shirt together, are now available in the store at www.jeffslatehq.com.
Meanwhile, Slate’s online concert series continues.