Paul Weller has launched a brand new single, Clive’s Track. The monitor, which was recorded at Weller’s Black Barn studios in Ripley, Surrey, comes from his upcoming covers album Discover El Dorado, and options visitor vocals from Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant.
Clive’s Track was initially written by the Unimaginable String Band’s Clive Palmer for Scottish people singer Hamish Imlach, who launched it on his 1971 album Previous Rarity.
“Robert Plant didn’t want persuading when Paul invited him to Black Barn for the ensuing session,” says a press release accompanying the discharge. “Plant is a strolling treasury of tales that stretch approach again earlier than Led Zeppelin. He regaled everybody current with tales of going to see Son Home and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee when the American Folks Blues Competition reached Birmingham City Corridor in 1967.
“After which when the music began, he and Paul swapped between harmonies and lead vocals, pausing just for Robert to seize one in all many harmonicas he had introduced with him and unleash a solo that billows by means of the tune like a gust entrance by means of a wheat discipline.”
Discover El Dorado can be launched on July 25 and is obtainable to pre-order now. It additionally contains contributions from Irish singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke, Oasis man Noel Gallagher, people singer Amelia Coburn and Senegalese kora participant Seckou Keita. Full tracklist beneath.
Paul Weller: Discover El Dorado tracklist
Unique artists in brackets
1. Handouts within the Rain (Richie Havens)
2. Small City Speak (Bobby Charles)
3. El Dorado (Eamon Friel)
4. White Line Fever (The Flying Burrito Brothers)
5. One Final Chilly Kiss (Christy Moore)
6. If you find yourself a King (White Plains)7. Pinball (Brian Protheroe)
8. The place There’s Smoke, There’s Fireplace (Willie Griffin)
9. I Began a Joke (Bee Gees)
10. By no means the Similar (Lal and Mike Waterson)
11. Lawdy Rolla (The Guerrillas)
12. No one’s Idiot (The Kinks)
13. Journey (Duncan Browne)
14. Daltry Road (Jake Fletcher / PP Arnold)
15. Clive’s Track (Hamish Imlach)
