PETER FRAMPTON COVERS GEORGE HARRISON, BOWIE ON NEW ALBUM

Peter Frampton has announced a new studio album, Frampton Forgets the Words, featuring instrumental tributes to some of his favorite songs. The album, by the Peter Frampton Band, is the follow up to his 2007 Grammy Award-winning instrumental album, Fingerprints. It will be released April 23, 2021, via UMe A first track, their take on Radiohead’s “Reckoner,” has been released. 

 

Frampton Forgets the Words was co-produced by Frampton and Chuck Ainlay and was recorded/mixed at Frampton’s own Studio Phenix in Nashville. From the Jan. 29 announcement: With his 1954 Les Paul Phenix—which was lost in a plane crash in 1980 and recovered more than 30 years later — Frampton brings virtuosic guitar playing to songs by David Bowie, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz and more.

 
Frampton notes, “This album is a collection of ten of my favorite pieces of music. My guitar is also a voice and I have always enjoyed playing my favorite vocal lines that we all know and love. These tracks are my great band and me paying tribute to the original creators of this wonderful music. So much fun to do.”
At 18, Frampton co-founded one of the first supergroups, Humble Pie. By 22, he was touring incessantly and making use of the talk box which would become his signature guitar effect.
His 2019 album All Blues (UMe), was #1 for fifteen weeks on Billboard’s Blues Chart. He released his autobiography, Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir, last October via Hachette Books. His 1976 album, Frampton Comes Alive! remains one of the top-selling live records of all time and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame last year.

A European edition of his Farewell tour had been planned for 2020 but was canceled, due to the pandemic
 

Track List:
1. If You Want Me To Stay (Sly Stone)
2. Reckoner (Radiohead)
3. Dreamland (Jaco Pastorius)
4. One More Heartache (Marvin Gaye)
5. Avalon (Roxy Music)
6. Isn’t It A Pity (George Harrison)
7. I Don’t Know Why (Stevie Wonder)
8. Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz)
9. Loving The Alien (David Bowie)
10. Maybe (written by Gordon Kennedy and Phil Madeira)