The Waterboys have joined forces with Fiona Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and different artists to make an idea album concerning the nice actor Dennis Hopper. Life, Death and Dennis Hopper is out April 4, by way of Sun, and will likely be led by the only “Hopper’s On Top (Genius)” on Friday (January 10). Within the meantime, discover the album artwork and tracklist under.
Because the Waterboys’ Mike Scott places it in press supplies, “The arc of his life was the story of our instances. He was on the huge 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, virtually died, got here again, acquired straight and have become a five-movies-a-year character actor with out shedding the flicker in his eye or the sense of hazard or unpredictability that at all times gathered round him.” The file, he provides, issues not solely Hopper’s life but in addition “the entire unusual journey of being a human soul on planet earth.”
Different visitors on the follow-up to 2022’s All Souls Hill embrace Sugarfoot, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s, Patti Palladin, Barny Fletcher, and Anana Kaye.
Learn Mark Richardson’s current Sunday Assessment of the Waterboys’ 1985 landmark, This Is the Sea.
Life, Demise and Dennis Hopper:
01 Kansas [ft. Steve Earle]
02 Hollywood ’55
03 Stay within the Second, Child
04 Brooke / 1712 North Crescent Heights
05 Andy (A Man Like You)
06 The Vacationer [ft. Barny Fletcher]
07 Freaks on Wheels
08 Blues for Terry Southern
09 Recollections of Monterey
10 Driving Right down to Mardi Gras
11 Hopper’s on Prime (Genius)
12 Transcendental Peruvian Blues
13 Michelle (All the time Keep)
14 Freakout on the Mud Palace
15 Daria
16 Ten Years Gone [ft. Bruce Springsteen]
17 Letter From an Unknown Girlfriend [ft. Fiona Apple]
18 Rock Backside
19 I Don’t Know How I Made It [ft. Taylor Goldsmith]
20 Frank (Let’s Fu*ok)
21 Katherine [ft. Anana Kaye]
22 Everyone Loves Dennis Hopper
23 Golf, They Say
24 Venice, California (Victoria)/The Passing of Hopper
25 Aftermath
