track with Joe Walsh was a let-
down and quickly put us back to
“Sleep.” Joe Satriani with Prai-
rie Prince, and Kasim Sulton in
“This Is Not A Drill” perk things
up, but someone should sound
the alarm that it might be time
for the EDM experiment to come
to an end. For a musical legend
who loved to bang on a drum
there’s too many beats here
without the beauty. The genius
called “god” by many of his fans
has forgotten about the manna
filled melody that made much
of his catalogue worship worthy.
Who’s gonna tell him?
The Mavericks’ Brand New Day
features 10 eclectic tracks start-
ing with “Rolling Along” which
melds bluegrass with Tejano
horns. Next as front man Raul
Malo told Rolling Stone Country
that the album”embodies a po-
litical message in the form of its
title track… As a band, as a fam-
ily, as a nation, as a world - now
more than ever, we’re going to
need to be more compassion-
ate, more understanding, more
Watch the video for “Brand New Day” by The Mavericks
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