Announcing my new CD, Little Bit of Luck, now available on bandcamp at https://jillnewman.bandcamp.com/album/little-bit-of-luck and on most major streaming services.
I’m delighted to announce that my new CD, Little Bit of Luck has arrived and is ready to share! The CD features 9 original roots and blues tunes with my first ever recorded cover, one of my favorite Bonnie Raitt tunes, Love Has No Pride. I tracked the album on a snowy weekend in February at Seattle’s iconic, Studio Litho (Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews) with Floyd Reitsma as engineer. I produced the CD along with Floyd Reitsma and Vancouver’s Scott Smith (Terminal Station). This CD features a great cast of top musicians including Seattle’s Kelly Van Camp on drums, percussion and harmonica and Patrick McDanel on upright and electric bass.
For this album, I let the songs determine the direction of the music. Little Bit of Luck is a bit less bluesy than my prior album, but the blues vibe is still present. For this project, I included many of the players who I play live shows with in the US along with some of the finest BC based musicians around. The title track, Little Bit of Luck features musical interplay between me on electric guitar and drummer and harpist Kelly Van Camp. Track #2 happens to be my yellow lab, Lucy’s favourite of all my songs – she comes running to find me when she hears that song. It’s been a long time since I’ve included cello in my recordings, but after writing Someone Like You, I kept hearing a cello part and reached out to the fabulous, Peggy Lee, Vancouver, BC to bring this beautiful song to life. Yellow Dog Shuffle is a funky instrumental with Scott Smith on rhythm electric, me on lead electric and Vancouver BC’s Chris Gestrin playing a soulful organ solo.
My BC CD release is coming up on Wednesday July 30th at the Princeton Pub in Vancouver!
