The Waterboys have joined forces with Fiona Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and different artists to make an idea album concerning the late, nice actor Dennis Hopper. Life, Dying and Dennis Hopper is out April 4, through Solar, and can be led by the one “Hopper’s on Prime (Genius)” on Friday (January 10). Within the meantime, discover the album paintings and tracklist beneath.
Because the Waterboys’ Mike Scott put it in press supplies, “The arc of his life was the story of our instances. He was on the huge bang of youth tradition in Insurgent With no Trigger with James Dean; and the beginnings of Pop Artwork with the younger Andy Warhol. He was a part of the counter-culture, hippie, civil rights, and psychedelic scenes of the ’60s. Within the ’70s and ’80s, he went on a wild 10-year rip, nearly died, got here again, received straight and have become a five-movies-a-year character actor with out shedding the flicker in his eye or the sense of hazard or unpredictability that all the time gathered round him.” The document, he added, issues not solely Hopper’s life, but additionally “the entire unusual journey of being a human soul on planet earth.”
Different visitors on the follow-up to 2022’s All Souls Hill embody Sugarfoot, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s, Patti Palladin, Barny Fletcher, and Anana Kaye.
Learn Mark Richardson’s latest Sunday Evaluate of the Waterboys’ 1985 landmark, This Is the Sea:
Life, Dying and Dennis Hopper:
01 Kansas [ft. Steve Earle]
02 Hollywood ’55
03 Stay within the Second, Child
04 Brooke / 1712 North Crescent Heights
05 Andy (A Man Like You)
06 The Vacationer [ft. Barny Fletcher]
07 Freaks on Wheels
08 Blues for Terry Southern
09 Recollections of Monterey
10 Driving Right down to Mardi Gras
11 Hopper’s on Prime (Genius)
12 Transcendental Peruvian Blues
13 Michelle (At all times Keep)
14 Freakout on the Mud Palace
15 Daria
16 Ten Years Gone [ft. Bruce Springsteen]
17 Letter From an Unknown Girlfriend [ft. Fiona Apple]
18 Rock Backside
19 I Don’t Know How I Made It [ft. Taylor Goldsmith]
20 Frank (Let’s Fu*okay)
21 Katherine [ft. Anana Kaye]
22 Everyone Loves Dennis Hopper
23 Golf, They Say
24 Venice, California (Victoria)/The Passing of Hopper
25 Aftermath
