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Selfishness. It can be either a friend or foe in the songwriting process and the bigger musical world. For Blues Traveler, selfishness has been a long time coming. It's what drives the band's eighth studio album, ¡Bastardos!: a need for the band members to make themselves—and only themselves—happy while making music.
But ¡Bastardos! isn't merely about a bunch of selfish, um, er, bastards making themselves happy or being overly indulgent. Musically, it's about a band growing into itself not for the first, but the second time—remarkably—while simultaneously making sure to have fun and push the envelope creatively.
Ask the band members themselves, and they'll tell you: After scaling the peaks of both the jam-rock mountain and the pop charts fairly early into their career, they faced a bit of an identity crisis: Were they a balls-to-the-wall/let's-rock-till-dawn blues-rock band or a singles band? The Jay Bennett-produced ¡Bastardos! reaffirms that Blues Traveler is and has always been the former, the same band that built a devoted following from coast-to-coast for its epic sets, and for transforming the jam scene in the early '90s via its beloved H.O.R.D.E. (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere) festivals. Today, they play to sold-out crowds at such massive outdoor venues as Red Rocks in Colorado, Wolf Trap in Virginia, and Pine Knob in Michigan. |
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