John Clifton - Let Yourself GoJohn Clifton, leader, vocals and harp from the Mofo Party Band is releasing his first solo album. Using the relationships he has developed over the past 20 of playing blues, John has assembled an All Star band for this album. Including Rusty Zinn, Bob Welch, and Marty Dotson to name a few. Rick Estrin even helps out with song writing on one song, John shows off his song writing and years of experience on his first solo album.

The Quartet Movement in B flat major from his final years as a student already attests to his narrative ambitions as a composer

Disc Two contains all the single edit

For over an hour the band plunder their twenty+ song hit-laden back catalog for a career-spanning set live from Thunder Studios in Long Beach

making their sound both classic and challenging in equal measure

"Lester Bangs Stereo Ghost" (a co-write with Alasdair Jones) is a short and frenetic post-punk romp

with selections ranging from modern reworkings of "You Don't Know What Love Is

Holy Hive widens the lens with these novel influences

They were also talented pianists and created a variety of brilliant music for the piano

With the packed crowd drawing magnetically toward the players

associated with key moments in the reign of Louis XIV

The result is indeed a colorful mixture

Twenty Two newsreels from 1937 to 1946