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Americana, protest, blues.

“In 2024, Seasick Steve and his wife Elisabeth took a road trip across America, seeing poverty and polarization up close as the country geared up for that year’s election. “We drove across the country from Miami to L.A.,” he recalls. “We thought we was gonna have an amazing time but we were mostly sad; so much homelessness and division.”
During a stop in a New Orleans club, the band leader welcomed two Belgian musicians to the stage with the words, “Welcome to the last season of America.” It became a guiding mantra, both for their road trip and for the new album. A deeply personal, heartfelt reflection on the state of his home nation, The Last Season Of America is a protest record in the truest sense.

Produced by Grammy winner Martin Terefe at Eastcote Studios in London — with Steve and his longtime drummer Dan Magnusson joined by Dave Okumu of The Invisible on guitar and Terefe on bass — The Last Season Of America takes stock of an American Dream coming apart at the seams.

It’s a poignant collage of societal ills and the emotional toll they impose. The burning blues of Bootstraps assesses the narrowing aperture of class mobility, while the simmering Somebody laments the looming uncertainty on what there is to be done at such a trepidatious moment. Bad Things takes aim at a certain venal and schismatic politician. “We got a criminal running this place. He got lies written all over his face,” sings Steve. “I guess it ain’t too hard to guess, right?” he says of the subject of his ire. And the title track is a grounded elegy for a fraying society, stripped beyond recognition — a place where, as Steve sings, “all that’s left is the theme song.”

Yet throughout The Last Season Of America, there is optimism amid Steve’s righteous anger: “There’s bad things, but we still can change. If you believe in hope, we can rearrange. I still believe in the power of love.”

Tracks:
01. The Last Season of America
02. Bad Things
03. Above Ground Boogie
04. Bootstraps
05. El Camino
06. Surf's Flat
07. Free Man
08. Somebody
09. Matilda From Ottawa
10. Feel The Sun

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nidwrQb4Az8&t=1s