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Blues Traveler Plans New Album
03/14/2001 12:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Gary Graff
(3/14/01, 12 p.m. ET) -- Blues Traveler will return May 8 with its first album since the drug overdose death of bassist Bobby Sheehan in August 1999. Bridge, which is being released on Universal Music Group's A&M imprint, marks the recording debut of new bassist Tad Kinchla, the brother of the band's guitarist Chan Kinchla who joined Blues Traveler in November 1999. Also new to the band on Bridge is keyboardist Ben Wilson, and fans will notice a markedly trimmed down John Popper fronting the band.
Matt Wallace produced Bridge and, not surprisingly, several of the dozen songs were inspired by the impact Sheehan's death had on the group. One in particular, "Pretty Angry," is subtitled "For J. Sheehan," referring to the bassist's brother Johnny.
Blues Traveler plans to hit the road this summer in support of Bridge, but it's not planning to resurrect the H.O.R.D.E. tour that it started in the early '90s.
The full Bridge tracklist includes: "Back In The Day," "Girls Inside My Head," "Rage," "Just For Me," "You Reach Me," "All Hands," "Pretty Angry," "The Way," "You Lost Me There," "Sadly A Fiction," "You're Burning Me," and "Decision Of The Skies."
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
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