Westerberg does is again: another online record unleashed!!!
UPDATE – 9.2.08:
About 15-minutes into the main track of 3oclockreep there appears a blues duet. The voice sharing the mic with Westerberg sounded an awful lot like one and only craggy crooner and junkyard beat basher Tom Waits.
Was it him? It has to be? Who else sounds like THAT!
An an email today, Westerberg’s management confirmed it was indeed Mr. Waits. 3oclockreep makes it the second release with the pair together, the previous being the 1989 Replacements b-side “Date To Church” where Waits played organ. The Waits piece here allegedly comes from that same session tape unearthed by Westerberg twenty years on.
What’s the next surprise, Paul: some great lost Replacements album???
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So Mr. Minneapolis Rock’n'Roll is clearly staying busy in his basement recording studio.
In just over a month, the once and always Replacements maestro Paul Westerberg released the sprawling one track album 49:00, followed it with the single 5:05 and now today issues 3oclockreep – featuring the 49:00-like pastiche’d title track and the more traditonal three and a half minute dash “Finally Here Once” – for a $3.99.
Get it for yourself here:
