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Edgar Winter talks “magical” contributions to ‘Brother Johnny’ tribute by Billy Gibbons, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes

April 25, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Edgar Winter‘s latest album, Brother Johnny: An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Winter, is a celebration of his late sibling’s music that features an impressive lineup of guest artists.

Since Johnny Winter was such a venerated blues-rock guitarist, Edgar made sure to invite many acclaimed players to do justice to his brother’s songs. These included ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons and Allman Brothers Band alums Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes.

Gibbons and Trucks both contribute their guitar talents to a blazing version of Johnny’s 1969 song “I’m Yours and I’m Hers,” with Billy also lending vocals to the track.

Edgar tells ABC Audio that he felt “the juxtaposition” of Billy’s and Derek’s playing made the track special, noting, “I love hearing that interplay between the two of them.”

Winter says Trucks’ slide work “was just nothing short of amazing.”

As for Gibbons’ singing on the track, Edgar notes, “I love hearing Billy’s voice. You know, he has such a distinctive voice that you immediately know it’s him…[H]e put a lot of love into it.”

Haynes sings and plays guitar on a rendition of “Memory Pain,” which appeared on Johnny’s third studio album, 1969’s Second Winter. Edgar recalls that Warren immediately insisted on doing “Memory Pain” when asked to take part in the project, noting that Haynes was more than prepared for his session.

“You talk about magical moments in recording,” Edgar enthuses. “He walked up to the mic, he plugged in his guitar and he did that whole song start to finish, singing and playing at the same time. He did the song exactly the way Johnny would have done it with [his] blues trio.”

He adds, “[T]he honesty and sincerity of that just blew me away.”

Here’s Brother Johnny’s full track list:

“Mean Town Blues” — featuring Joe Bonamassa
“Alive and Well” — featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd
“Lone Star Blues” — featuring Keb’ Mo’
“I’m Yours and I’m Hers” — featuring Billy Gibbons & Derek Trucks
“Johnny B. Goode” — featuring Joe Walsh & David Grissom
“Stranger” — featuring Michael McDonald, Joe Walsh & Ringo Starr
“Highway 61 Revisited” — featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd & John McFee
“Rock ‘n’ Roll Hoochie Koo” — featuring Steve Lukather
“When You Got a Good Friend” — featuring Doyle Bramhall II
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash” — featuring Phil X
“Guess I’ll Go Away” — featuring Taylor Hawkins & Doug Rappoport
“Drown in My Own Tears”
“Self Destructive Blues” — featuring Joe Bonamassa
“Memory Pain” — featuring Warren Haynes
“Stormy Monday Blues” — featuring Robben Ford
“Got My Mojo Workin'” — featuring Bobby Rush
“End of the Line” — featuring David Campbell Strings

Black Label Society premieres psychedelic “You Made Me Want to Live” video

April 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Black Label Society has premiered the video for “You Made Me Want to Live,” a track off the band’s latest album, Doom Crew Inc.

The clip captures performance footage of Zakk Wylde and company rocking out amid a psychedelic light show that’s fitting for any metalheads still celebrating 4/20. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.

Doom Crew Inc., the 11th Black Label Society album, was released last November. It also includes the single “Set You Free.”

Black Label launch a U.S. tour in support of Doom Crew Inc. April 30 in San Diego. They launch a co-headlining run with Anthrax in July.

Sub Urban details debut album, ’HIVE’

April 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

“Cradles” artist Sub Urban has announced his debut album.

The record is titled HIVE, and arrives June 3. It includes a new single called “UH OH!” featuring New Zealand singer BENEE, which you can listen to now via digital outlets.

“I feel so refreshed to finally release this song, and I am beyond thrilled to start the countdown to my debut album,” Sub Urban says. “BENEE’s presence in ‘UH OH!’ gives the song a much needed level of enchantment. Though it’s a shame we never met in person, she nailed her parts in this project, both vocally and in the video.”

Along with “UH OH!,” HIVE features the previously released songs “INFERNO” and “PARAMOUR.”

HIVE follows Sub Urban’s 2020 EP Thrill Seeker, which features the single “Freak.”

Music notes: Billie Eilish, BTS, Cardi B and more

April 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Billie Eilish has one important rule no one can ever break: don’t interrupt her while she’s eating and watching something. She admitted to Billboard, “I get irrationally angry and furious.” The Grammy winner confessed she has another weird quirk: she sometimes will make herself a new meal and start from the top so she can fully enjoy it.

BTS‘ “Boy with Luv” is officially their most-viewed video on YouTube after amassing over one-and-a-half billion streams. They’re the third Korean act to notch that many views on a music video, following BLACKPINK and PSY. “Boy with Luv,” which features Halsey, was released in April 2019.

Cardi B‘s hilarious new episode of Cardi Tries is here, in which she toughed it out in the woods. “Ya girl was outside with no shelter, no water, AND no cell phone but I SURVIVED,” Cardi teased. The episode is live now on Messenger.

Mother’s Day is May 8 and new mom Meghan Trainor told USA Today what gifts she thinks will knock it out of the park. Breakfast in bed is a must, adding that when she became pregnant with Riley and “got a taste of gestational diabetes,” her husband, Daryl Sabara, “wanted to make sure the pregnancy was as easy as possible for me.” Other gift ideas include chocolate covered strawberries, a good Mother’s Day card and a vacation.

Olivia Rodrigo reflected on how she managed her explosive fame when she was 17 years old, telling OK!, “It’s so crazy…But I have amazing friends who are super honest with me and keep me grounded.” As for the advice she has now for her former self, said the Grammy winner, “Everything’s gonna work out, surround yourself with great people and do all this because you love writing songs.”

Bonnie Raitt doesn’t think she “could have handled” the kind of success Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish & Ed Sheeran are having now

April 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Bonnie Raitt’s back with a new album, Just Like That…, her first release in more than six years. And while Bonnie’s big breakthrough didn’t come until she was 40, with her album Nick of Time, she now says that she’s glad it took years for her to have success.

Speaking to Variety, Bonnie, 72, admits, “I look at Taylor Swift and…Adele and Billie Eilish and Ed Sheeran and people are handling incredible early success with the guidance and experience of people decades older, and I’m just so happy to see that. Because I don’t think I could have handled it.”

“I didn’t seek it and I wouldn’t have wanted a hit record,” she explains. “I actually turned down songs that would have made me a star…I just didn’t want to be that in that pressure. I was in it for the long run…planning to be doing this into my eighties or so.”

And that’s still her plan: As she tells Variety, her fellow musicians make her believe she’ll be able to do it.

“If you watched the Tony Bennett special with Lady Gaga, I stood up and gave him a standing ovation in my house. That’s how much I love that he still was able to do that show,” she notes. “And Mick [Jagger] and Keith [Richards] — oh my God, what an inspiration. And Mavis [Staples, her current tour mate].”

“I don’t see any sign of any of us retiring,” she adds. “I mean, Bruce Springsteen and Sting — people are at the top of their form right now, I think.”

Meanwhile, Bonnie’s back on tour for the first time since the pandemic, and she’s thrilled, saying, “I’ve never had more of a mission to go back out on the road to bring joy and relief to people.”

Music notes: Meghan Trainor, Olivia Rodrigo and more

April 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Mother’s Day is May 8, and new mom Meghan Trainor told USA Today what gifts she thinks will knock it out of the park. Breakfast in bed is a must, adding that when she became pregnant with daughter Riley and “got a taste of gestational diabetes,” her husband, Daryl Sabara, “wanted to make sure the pregnancy was as easy as possible for me.” Other gift ideas include chocolate-covered strawberries, a good Mother’s Day card and a vacation.

Olivia Rodrigo reflected on how she managed her explosive fame when she was 17 years old, telling OK!, “It’s so crazy… But I have amazing friends who are super honest with me and keep me grounded. My life has changed drastically, but at the end of the day, I’m really kind of like the same person.” As for the advice she has now for her former self, said the Grammy winner, “Everything’s gonna work out, surround yourself with great people and do all this because you love writing songs.”

Kelly Clarkson channeled Stevie Nicks on her daytime talk show Friday, belting out a haunting cover of Stevie’s 1982 smash solo hit “Edge of Seventeen.” This isn’t the first time the American Idol winner showed Nicks some love: she previously covered Fleetwood Mac‘s “The Chain” and “Dreams” on her show.

“Keep Yourself Alive” by working out with Queen’s new Apple Fitness+ Playlist

April 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If you need motivational anthems to keep you pumping iron at the gym, Queen will, Queen will rock you — thanks to Apple+ Fitness.

The Apple+ Fitness app has just debuted a Queen playlist specifically designed to make you yell “Don’t Stop Me Now!” while you’re doing the Fandago with free weights, the treadmill, the bike or workout machines. The playlist will “lift your spirits and deliver that extra shot of energy for whatever your goal might be,” according to Apple.

In addition to the inevitable “We Will Rock You,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Are the Champions,” the playlist also includes hits and classic cuts like “I Want It All,” “Keep Yourself Alive,” “Tie Your Mother Down,” “Hammer to Fall,” “Death on Two Legs,” “Killer Queen,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” “You’re My Best Friend,” “Stone Cold Crazy,” “Radio Gaga,” “Headlong,” “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “I Want to Break Free,” “Now I’m Here” and more.

You can check out a video on the Apple Fitness+ website showing a snippet of a Queen-soundtracked workout. There are also playlists from ABBA and Korean boy band BTS, if you feel like dancing.

Listen to Billie Joe Armstrong recap ‘The Office’ episode on ‘Office Ladies’ podcast

April 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Sharing a name isn’t the only thing Billie Joe Armstrong has in common with Billie Eilish — they’re also both big fans of The Office.

The Green Day frontman shared his love for all things Dunder Mifflin in a new installment of the Office Ladies podcast, in which cast members Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey — who played the characters Pam Beesly and Angela Martin, respectively — look back at each episode of the beloved sitcom.

The topic for this week was the season six episode “Secret Santa,” which, as Office fans may recall, features a karaoke rendition of the Green Day song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” as sung by Rainn Wilson‘s Dwight Schrute and Ed Helms‘ Andy Bernard.

In honor of the Green Day and The Office crossover, Armstrong sent Office Ladies a recording of him giving the “Secret Santa” episode remake. He also shared how he felt “completely taken by surprise” seeing “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” being performed on the show.

“Andy, he started singing harmonies…we do have a musical for American Idiot, and he sang the same exact harmony that’s in the musical,” Armstrong said. “It was good.”

In addition to watching The Office, Armstrong is getting ready to return to the road with Green Day. Their 2022 live schedule includes sets at Lollapalooza, Shaky Knees and Outside Lands, among other festivals, as well as the European leg of the Hella Mega tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy.

Kevin Federline’s lawyer slams Britney Spears’ claims he was absent during second pregnancy

April 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Britney Spears is in hot water after she posted — and then quickly deleted — a claim that her ex-husband Kevin Federline “wouldn’t see me” when she was pregnant with their second child. Now, Kevin’s lawyer is reportedly getting involved.

TMZ took screenshots of Britney’s post, in which she claimed, “My ex-husband wouldn’t see me when I flew to New York with a baby inside me and Las Vegas when he was shooting a video!!!” She also said she received a text that reportedly said, “If you don’t divorce Kevin he will publicly do it to you.” Britney wrote of that exchange, “Since I hadn’t seen him in a while I already knew it was over.”

Although Britney said she’s since “made peace” with what happened and later removed the post, Federline’s lawyer was not amused. Attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told TMZ, “That story about Kevin in Las Vegas and Britney is completely erroneous, and he’s not going to stand by and let that story besmirch what he did and his support of her back in the day.”

Kaplan said his client has no ill will over Britney’s relationship with Sam Asghari, with whom she is now reportedly expecting a child, but said the pop star needs to stay in her lane.

“When she starts talking about the way things were when Jayden and Preston were infants that’s completely fabricated. Kevin is not going to let that stand by and let that be the portrayal of fact,” he warned.

Britney has yet to publicly respond to Kaplan’s statement.

Britney and Kevin were married from 2004 to 2007 and share sons Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15.

Travis Scott featured on first official single post-Astroworld tragedy

April 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Travis Scott is featured on a new track from Southside called “Hold That Heat,” marking his first official single since the Astroworld tragedy in November.

The song, which also features Future, was released on Friday, along with its music video.

“It’s what the game’s missing right now,” Southside tells Billboard. “It’s a breath of fresh air. If you couldn’t breathe and this was the last resort, this is it. It’s a fun record though and very full of energy.”

He says he and Travis made the song about eight months ago and it was Travis’ idea to get Future on the track.

“He ended up going around Future and getting it done and sent it to me like, ‘This [is] your single.’ Trav’s my real friend,” the Atlanta native says.

“Hold That Heat” follows Scott’s feature on the Kanye West song “Pablo” from his February album Donda 2, which was not widely released and only available for streaming on Ye’s Stem Player.

On November 5, 2021, 10 people were killed in a crowd surge at Travis’ Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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