Graham Parker

Graham Parker & The Rumour – Mystery Glue (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:47 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Rock
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Mystery Glue from Graham Parker and the Rumour was written in Parker’s second home of New York and recorded in only six days in London. The material is a real return to form for Parker and his powerhouse band, one of the UK’s pioneering pre-punk outfits, often cited as a major influence on other artists including Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Paul Weller and Bruce Springsteen. Mystery Glue, featuring the Rumour’s original 1970s lineup, is an album of conscious rock, harking back to Parker’s genre-defining music of the ’70s while paying homage to Dylan, reggae, soul and rock ‘n’ roll.

“When Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky described dark matter in the 1930s, he got the name wrong. It is of course ‘mystery glue’ that holds the universe together … when I present new songs to the Rumour they work feverishly to make sense of them, often starting out with wildly disparate and alarmingly wrong diversions. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, everything falls into place, as if by dint of some Mystery Glue that holds us all together.” –Graham Parker

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Graham Parker – 5 Old Souls (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:00 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 100% Records

To celebrate his 70th birthday, legendary English singer-songwriter Graham Parker has announced a new live album, Five Old Souls, recorded in 2018 with his backing band, The Goldtops, and the return of the Rumour Brass. The concert, the final show of his 2018 Cloud Symbols tour, was “recorded professionally,” he says, at the Engine Rooms in Southampton, U.K.. The setlist also includes many old favorites with a heavy focus on the Howlin’ Wind and Heat Treatment albums among its 16 tracks.

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