Peter Frampton - Frampton Forgets The Words instrumental covers album released 23/04/21
Frampton Forgets The Words
The Peter Frampton Band’s instrumental covers album
Released April 23rd on Ume/UMC
Album features additional instrumentals of songs by
David Bowie, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz and more
Pre-order HERE
Frampton Forgets The Words - the new studio album by The Peter Frampton Band - will be released on April 23rd via Ume/UMC. Frampton Forgets the Words features instrumental tributes to some of Peter Frampton’s favourite songs and is the follow up to his 2007 Grammy Award-winning instrumental album Fingerprints.
Pre-order it here: https://peterframpton.lnk.to/ForgetsTheWords
See the videos for the version of Radiohead’s Reckoner HERE and Roxy Music’s Avalon HERE.
Frampton Forgets The Words was co-produced by Peter Frampton and Chuck Ainlay and was recorded/mixed at Frampton’s own Studio Phenix in Nashville. With his infamous 1954 Les Paul Phenix - which was lost in a plane crash in 1980 and recovered more than 30 years late - Frampton brings virtuosic guitar playing to songs by David Bowie, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz and more.
Speaking about the album Frampton explains, “This album is a collection of ten of my favourite pieces of music. My guitar is also a voice and I have always enjoyed playing my favourite vocal lines that we all know and love. These tracks are my great band and me paying tribute to the original creators of this wonderful music. (They were) so much fun to do and I really hope you enjoy them too.”
Talking specifically about their version of Roxy Music’s Avalon Frampton continues, “The original is such a perfect piece of music. I really wanted to get as close to the vocal inflection as I could, and I think I almost did it! It’s a sexy kind of guitar sound, like Bryan Ferry’s vocal, and I’m very proud of it.”
Peter Frampton is among the most celebrated guitarists in rock history. At 18 he co-founded one of the first supergroups Humble Pie. By 22 he was touring incessantly and making use of the talk box which would become his signature guitar effect. He has collaborated with legendary artists including George Harrison, David Bowie, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ringo Starr among many others, and has toured with Stevie Nicks, Greg Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheap Trick, and the Steve Miller Band. In 2014 he was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame.
Frampton’s 2019 album All Blues was #1 for 15 weeks on Billboard’s Blues Chart, and his autobiography Do You Feel Like I Do? A Memoir - published in October 2020 by Hachette Books - debuted on The New York Times bestsellers list. His 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive! remains one of the top-selling live records of all time and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame last year.
Frampton Forgets The Words tracklist:
1. If You Want Me To Stay
2. Reckoner
3. Dreamland
4. One More Heartache
5. Avalon
6. Isn’t It A Pity
7. I Don't Know Why
8. Are You Gonna Go My Way
9. Loving The Alien
10. Maybe
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