(2022) Mike Baggetta, Jim Keltner, Mike Watt - Everywhen We Go    


Review:
…the second studio album of trio Mike Baggetta (guitar) Jim Keltner (drums), and Mike Watt (bass), is being released as Everywhen We Go. It marks the recurrence of a particular kind of experiment where three strangers brought some material into Big Ego Studio in Long Beach, with Chris Schlarb producing, and blended ideas with improvisation to create an entire album. The first album, titled Wall of Flowers, didn’t have a planned follow-up but when revisiting unused material from the first session, instigator Mike Baggetta suggested a second release. Keltner preferred a new session entirely, and Everywhen We Go was born. There’s an added layer of historical development beyond just getting a “dream team” together in a studio for this experiment. Since Keltner preferred not to tour, taking Wall of Flowers on the road meant a new experiment, bringing in Stephen Hodges, which resulted in new music, and eventually a new band, too, called Main Steam Stop Valve. All of this came about because Baggetta considered setting up a session where strangers worked together to see if enduring and interesting music could be created.

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From the liner notes by Jason P. Woodbury: “There’s a scene in The True History of The Traveling Wilburys short documentary in which the viewer is treated to footage of drummer Jim Keltner furiously smacking his sticks on cabinet doors, refrigerator shelves, and other surfaces in Dave Stewart’s kitchen, trailed by a microphone capturing his every move. I keep thinking about that funny scene while listening to Keltner’s playing on Everywhen We Go, the second album from the trio comprising the drummer, guitarist Mike Baggetta, and bassist Mike Watt. Everywhen is a much sparser and direct example of Keltner’s rhythmic sensibility, don’t get me wrong, but the same manic spirit is at work across the album’s nine songs. Everywhen is a playful and forceful outing, a sprightly tangle of sand dune guitars, Los Angeles noir, spazzouts and honey-toned pastorales. Like Keltner in the kitchen, these lifers—whose back catalog spans the avant-garde, various Beatles solo albums, The Stooges, and strains of outsider punk and rock expression—are at play on the recording.”


   


Track List:
01 - Everywhen We Go
02 - This Is Not a Euphemism
03 - In the Center
04 - Yank It Out
05 - Fake Break
06 - Not Enough of Time
07 - Fearmongers
08 - Measure of a Life (Intro)
09 - Measure of a Life


Media Report:
Genre: jazz, rock
Country: Gainesville, Florida, USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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