North Hollywood Shootout (album)

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North Hollywood Shootout
Blues Traveler - North Hollywood Shootout.jpg
Studio album by
Blues Traveler
ReleasedAugust 26, 2008
RecordedFeb 2007; Early 2008
Genre Rock, psychedelic rock
Length42:05
Label Verve Forecast
Producer David Bianco [1]
Blues Traveler chronology
Cover Yourself
(2007)		North Hollywood Shootout
(2008)		 Suzie Cracks the Whip
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Paste 6/10 [3]

North Hollywood Shootout is American jam band Blues Traveler's tenth studio album, released on August 26, 2008, and produced by David Bianco, a 1996 Grammy winner. In a notable departure from previous Blues Traveler releases, the album includes a spoken word piece featuring Bruce Willis.

Contents

This album marked the band's return to Universal Music Group, which owns their previous label A&M Records, and also their current label, Verve Forecast Records (along with the catalog of Sanctuary Records, another label the band was on at one point).

History

During early writing and production of this album, the members of Blues Traveler began to experiment with re-arrangements of various older songs, and put this album on hold to record Cover Yourself for their twentieth anniversary. The recording sessions for the two albums were held back-to-back.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Forever Owed"4:43
2."You, Me and Everything"4:21
3."Love Does"3:31
4."Borrowed Time"3:38
5."The Beacons"3:14
6."Orange in the Sun"3:53
7."What Remains"4:48
8."How You Remember It"4:06
9."The Queen of Sarajevo"4:01
10."Free Willis (Ruminations from Behind Uncle Bob's Machine Shop)"5:51
11."The Landing" (iTunes exclusive) 
12."Alleviate" (Japan exclusive) 

Early reports cite the disc as having 11 tracks, [4] [5] but the supposedly official track listing released to amazon.com had only 10 tracks listed on it. [6] However, a later version of the track listing released on the Barnes and Noble website included the supposedly missing 11th track (apparently track 10), "The Landing," [7] along with a 30-second sample of the song. "The Landing" eventually became an iTunes exclusive song.

Personnel

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "BLUES TRAVELER TO PLAY AT SOVEREIGN BANK STADIUM TONIGHT!!!". 2008-06-14. Archived from the original on 2008-07-02. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ Paste review
  4. ↑ Graff, Gary (2008-07-14). "Blues Traveler Kicks Out The Jams On New Disc". Billboard.com . Retrieved 2008-07-15.
  5. ↑ Cashmere, Paul (2008-07-15). "Blues Traveler Move To Verve". Undercover.com.au. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
  6. ↑ "Amazon.com listing for North Hollywood Shootout". 2008-07-25. ASIN   B001CODTME.
  7. ↑ Noble, Barnes (2008-08-04). "Barnes and Noble entry for North Hollywood Shootout". bn.com . Retrieved 2008-07-15.



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