On Jeff Slate's third solo album the NYC-based singer-songwriter continues to find inspiration in artists like John Lennon, George Harrison, the Small Faces, The Who and The Kinks but David Bowie's legacy now looms just as large.

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Jeff Slate of The Badge performs "This Is Love" by George Harrison from his 1987 solo album Cloud Nine on Spencer Leigh's BBC radio show in 2009.

For George: Live at the BBC - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7 [Live]

This Is Love (Live at the BBC) [George Harrison cover]

NYC-based songwriter and music journalist Jeff Slate appeared on KLOS 95.5's Jonesy's Jukebox, hosted by former-Sex Pistol Steve Jones, on May 7, 2018. The pair closed out the show by playing Jeff's song "Lucky Day Sunset," from his 2012 album Birds Of Paradox.

In-studio on Jonesy's Jukebox

Lucky Day Sunset (feat. Steve Jones)

An acoustic version of NYC-based singer-songwriter and music writer Jeff Slate's "Letter From Paris (Showed Me The Way)" from his August 2020 release Lockdown Live, a 43-song 2-CD set recorded during his 2020 streaming concert series on Facebook and Instagram, with profits going to social justice causes.

Available via www.jeffslatehq.com and all retail and streaming outlets on August 14, 2020.

The original video for the song, featuring Earl Slick, can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AybGD9lEQ

(c) & (p) 2020 Jeff Slate (ASCAP) / Badgetunes Publishing / Digitalretro Productions. All Rights reserved. Used by permission.

Letter From Paris (Showed Me The Way) (Live Acoustic Version)

New York City Singer-Songwriter Jeff Slate Announces New Single “Heartbreak,” Featuring All-Star Cast Including Earl Slick and Duff McKagan, Out October 2nd

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Produced by Slate and Eric Lichter, “Heartbreak” was written earlier this year and recorded in sessions spanning the globe during the current pandemic lockdown and is the first evidence of the sessions for a promised studio album in 2021. 

The single, offering up a gripping, swampy sound from Slate, features Slate and Lichter backed by an all-star cast of players, including Slate’s longtime collaborator Earl Slick (John Lennon, David Bowie) on guitars, Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses) on bass, plus Lee Harris (The Blockheads, Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets) on guitar, Jordan Summers (Wallflowers, Echo In The Canyon) on keyboards and Paul Weller’s longtime drummer Ben Gordelier. 

The track was mixed by the legendary Duane Lundy at the Lexington Recording Company and mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering. The single’s arresting cover is by artist Rick Hunt, who has supplied artwork for Slate’s releases since his first solo album, 2012’s Birds Of Paradox. The design is by Jared Friedman.

“I’m incredibly proud of ‘Heartbreak,’” says Slate. “Everybody brought their absolute A-Game to the sessions, and that was inspiring and humbling, considering the players involved. I dug deeper and reached higher on the song and in all the writing I’m doing now. It all feels like an exciting new direction.”

“I’ve worked with Jeff Slate for a long time, and when I heard the song, it was definitely all him. You could hear the influences, but filtered through his own distinct sensibility,” says the legendary guitarist Earl Slick of the track. “As soon as I heard the track – and I only listened to it once or twice – I knew instinctively what to do. The song and the vibe were great, so it wasn’t me trying to fit myself into somebody else’s vision. And it sounds like a band, which is cool considering we were all over the world when we did our parts.”    

“Heartbreak” follows hot on the heels of the whopping 43-song live album Slate released in August. Lockdown Live was recorded live during Slate's #StayHome online concert series during the COVID-19 enforced lockdown this year. It featured 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, as well as songs by Tom Petty, George Harrison, John Prine, Warren Zevon, Lord Huron, Marvin Gaye and others. The second disc of the two-disc set included nineteen songs written by Bob Dylan (plus one Traveling Wilburys number).

Slate’s now long-running online concert series regularly attracts thousands of views per week, and within just days of the release Lockdown Live the album had been streamed over 3,000 times on Spotify. Videos for the Slate original “San Francisco Days” and a lyric video of an outtake version of the Oasis classic “Slide Away” had racked up similar numbers.

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.

As work progresses on Slate’s next studio album, his online concert series also continues.

Heartbreak [Hi Res]

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