Eric Gales

Eric Gales – The Bookends (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:34 minutes | 592 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue

On 8th February 2019, Eric Gales returns with his brand new album ‘The Bookends’ on Provogue/Mascot Label Group and it features collaborations with B. Slade and Provogue artists Doyle Bramhall II and Beth Hart. The challenge for making ‘The Bookends’ was for Gales to challenge himself. “As a guitar player it’s been established that I can play a little bit, just a little bit,” he smiles. But for this album he not only wanted to push himself as a musician, but also as a vocalist, to build up his vocal discography. Gales’ story is an incredible one, he was a child prodigy and released his debut album The Eric Gales Band in 1991 as a 16 year old on Elektra Records. It was the first of 10 albums on a major label through a blistering career. He has released 15 studio albums in total ahead of ‘The Bookends’ and a host of other collaborations. He has battled drink and drug issues and spent time in jail in 2009 for possession of drugs and a weapon. Gales proudly tells his story every night before every show, now over two years sober he is creating some of the most breath-taking music he has ever made. If his previous album ‘Middle of the Road’ was the rebirth of Eric Gales, then ‘The Bookends’ is him knocking away his boundaries and taking flight on a voyage of self-discovery asking himself what do you think you can do and pushing that into the stratosphere.

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Eric Gales – The Bookends (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:34 minutes | 592 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue

On 8th February 2019, Eric Gales returns with his brand new album ‘The Bookends’ on Provogue/Mascot Label Group and it features collaborations with B. Slade and Provogue artists Doyle Bramhall II and Beth Hart. The challenge for making ‘The Bookends’ was for Gales to challenge himself. “As a guitar player it’s been established that I can play a little bit, just a little bit,” he smiles. But for this album he not only wanted to push himself as a musician, but also as a vocalist, to build up his vocal discography. Gales’ story is an incredible one, he was a child prodigy and released his debut album The Eric Gales Band in 1991 as a 16 year old on Elektra Records. It was the first of 10 albums on a major label through a blistering career. He has released 15 studio albums in total ahead of ‘The Bookends’ and a host of other collaborations. He has battled drink and drug issues and spent time in jail in 2009 for possession of drugs and a weapon. Gales proudly tells his story every night before every show, now over two years sober he is creating some of the most breath-taking music he has ever made. If his previous album ‘Middle of the Road’ was the rebirth of Eric Gales, then ‘The Bookends’ is him knocking away his boundaries and taking flight on a voyage of self-discovery asking himself what do you think you can do and pushing that into the stratosphere.

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Eric Gales – A Night on the Sunset Strip (Live) [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:36:26 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleopatra Blues

Blues rock phenom Eric Gales brings his fiery six string pyrotechnics deep into the heart of Hollywood’s famed music scene on this spectacular live concert recording. Gales lets loose on Southern fried soulful blues favourites from his back catalogue featuring crowd pleasers Block the Sun and The Open Road along with more recent tracks from his 2014 album Good For Sumthin’, including a smoking hot cover of the Stones’s Miss You. Gales is joined onstage by special guest bassist, Good For Sumthin’’s producer Raphael Saadiq (John Legend, The Roots). This deluxe edition adds three bonus classic rock cover versions: Don’t Fear the Reaper, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) and a mash-up of Kashmir and Back in Black.

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Eric Gales – Crown (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:42 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue

Eric Gales is a blues firebrand. Over 30 years and 18 albums, his passion for the music and his boundless desire to keep it vital has never waned, even when his own light dimmed due to his substance struggles. Five years sober, creatively rejuvenated, and sagely insightful, Eric is ready for the fight of his career. Aptly, he calls his masterful new album, out January 2022 on Provogue/Mascot Label Group, Crown.

The songs are delivered with clarity and feature Eric’s personal experiences and hope for positive change. In addition, the 16-track collection boasts his finest singing, songwriting, and his signature guitar playing that burns throughout.

Produced by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith, this is Eric at his most boldly vulnerable, uncompromisingly political, and unflinchingly confident.

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