Product Code: | 5439 19658 1 |
Artist: | Gary Clark Jr. And Junkie XL |
Origin: | USA |
Label: | Warner Bros Records (2017) |
Format: | 12" EP |
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Genre: | Alternative Rock , Rock N |
Brand new sealed 2017 RSD release 12"45 RPM.
The recording is a freewheeling electro-rock crossover that features Clark playing his signature bluesy guitar licks around Junkie XL’s stomping, bass-heavy refiguring of the Beatles riff. Fittingly, Clark’s vocal performance grooves up slowly, and he commands a wailing guitar solo at the end that’s been evolving on the road since he left the recording studio. There’s even a six-minute extended version of the tune with more guitar.
“It was like being in a garage band again, just 15-year-old kids making noise,” Clark adds. “The last time I felt that I was in a session with Alicia Keys. It was incredible. It just depends on who you work with and what kind of energy they bring. We left, and I was like, ‘Man, we got to do this again.'”
As for whether or not the two actually will jam together again, Clark says it’s up in the air. They want to see how “Come Together” does commercially, since the producer is tied up in movie sores and has a tight schedule. In the meantime, Clark has been slowly moving forward with new music. It’s been two years since he put out The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, and he’s now in the early stages of making a follow-up in a Texas studio. Lately, he’s been collaborating with a couple of Austin-based rappers, Zeale and Phranchyse. “I don’t know why he can’t just spell ‘franchise’ like normal people, but we went to school together,” Clark says with a laugh. “I make beats from time to time and we just decided to put that together.”
Until he’s ready to put that out, though, he says he’s enjoying working out a live arrangement of “Come Together” on the road. “I’m still messing up the lyrics,” he says with a laugh. “We’ve been playing it for a few moths, so it’s still fresh and very new. I’m sure it will take on some sort of new life when we get comfortable with it. All my songs tend to do that.”
Ultimately, he has one goal in mind for the song. “It’s a classic, so I was cautious with it,” he says. “I just hope that when Paul and Ringo hear it, they dig it. That’s all you can hope for.”