Great news for Spin Doctors fans: the band is working on a new album titled “If The River Was Whiskey”. Chris, Eric, Mark and Aaron just recorded ten original blues songs at Aaron’s His House Studio with Aaron’s long-time collaborator Roman Klun mixing; blues tunes that were mostly written before the band was popular and successful so that they could play little blues bars in NYC. The songs were lost and forgotten for about 20 years, but have just been dug up again during the PFOK 20th anniversary tours in the UK, the US and Europe. As far as we know, these are the songs that the boys recorded:
The Drop
Sweetest Portion
About A Train
Scotch And Water Blues
Traction Blues
So Bad
Ben’s Looking Out The Window Blues
What My Love
Some Other Man
If The River Was Whiskey
“Some Other Man” and “If The River Was Whiskey” are brand new tunes. There is a version of “Train” on the 1996 Spin Doctors album “You’ve Got To Believe In Something” with guitar player Anthony Krizan which is very different from the original version with Eric that got recorded now. There are live-in-studio recordings of “Scotch” and “What My Love” on some 1994 maxi cd singles, but both songs never got proper studio treatment before. All other songs are previously unreleased, some of them weren’t played live by the band since the late 80s.
It is not certain whether the album recording process is completely done already or if there will be additional sessions, overdubs etc. Also, there is no release date / distibution info given yet. On July 18th, the band played a small gig in NYC to celebrate the album recording session. Do yourself a favor and listen to this awesome show in its entirety.
In other news, the band announced a 9-gig-UK-tour for late January / early February 2013. More news on the new album and the tour as soon as we get them, make sure to follow us on Facebook to stay up-to-date with all things Spins.
