Rolling Stone has the lowdown on Carlos Santana’s next album, due out September 21st.   It’s called Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time.  Perhaps inspired by my earlier post on Gibson’s listing of the best guitar albums?   Here’s the track list, showing the guest vocalist and original version of each track on the album.

  • “Whole Lotta Love” featuring Chris Cornell (Led Zeppelin)
  • “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” featuring Scott Weiland (The Rolling Stones)
  • “Sunshine Of Your Love” featuring Rob Thomas (Cream)
  • “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” featuring india.arie and Yo-Yo Ma (The Beatles)
  • “Dance the Night Away” featuring Pat Monahan (Van Halen)
  • “Back In Black” featuring Nas and Janelle Monáe (AC/DC)
  • “Riders On the Storm” featuring Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (The Doors)
  • “Smoke On the Water” featuring Jacoby Shaddix (Deep Purple)
  • “Photograph” featuring Chris Daughtry (Def Leppard)
  • “Bang A Gong” featuring Gavin Rossdale (T. Rex)
  • “Little Wing” featuring Joe Cocker (Jimi Hendrix)
  • “I Ain’t Superstitious” featuring Jonny Lang (Howlin’ Wolf, Jeff Beck Group)

Looks like there will be an interesting re-think on some of these songs, especially Back in Black and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  Riders on the Storm is a “great guitar classic”????

November 16th sees Bruce Springsteen expand Darkness on the Edge of Town to 3 CDs and 3 Blu-Ray or SD discs.  The NY Times says there will be 21 previously unreleased songs (some with titles I don’t recognize even from bootlegs), a complete concert from Houston ’78, rare late 70s video clips, a concert from Asbury Park in 2009 and a documentary on the making of the album (playing at a film festival in Toronto in September and on HBO in October).

Speaking of The Boss, Idolator’s got a clip from last night’s Emmys.  Jimmy Fallon and the cast of Glee give Born to Run the Glee make-over.  Lots of surprise cameos that I won’t spoil.

And now for something completely different – A Chrome Experiment.  The latest video from Arcade Fire, The Wilderness Downtown, for their single We Used to Wait, was made using HTML5.  The extra kick is that you input your address (“the address of the home where you grew up” is requested) and then images from Google Maps and Google Street View of your very own home are smooshed into the video.  It’s a Chrome Experiment because you need to use Google’s Chrome browser to see this.  It might work in Firefox or Safari but don’t even bother if you’re running IE.  It’s a great track from their excellent new album and a cool concept.

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