I saw this on Austin’s music video channel today. I have his new album, “Moment of Forever”, and it’s pretty good. He played at the Austin Rodeo tonight and then he’s playing two nights at The Backyard later this month. Austin loves Willie and Willie loves Austin, so it’s all good.
This video is for Willie’s cover of Dave Matthews’ “Gravedigger”. The video is well done, and Willie totally carries the gravitas required for both the song and the video.
Just wanted to put a quick post nothing the mini assault of new Genesis releases in North America tomorrow. I’ve already talked at length about the 1983-1998 boxset which covers the most popular Genesis albums, and each of the albums will be available individually remixed and remastered in a standard CD and DVD set with surround mix and extras.
A new live album will also be out chronicling the best performances of the recent reunion tour in Europe. Simply titled “Live Over Europe,” it is the full setlist on two CDs. The setlist is an amazingly well balanced combination of classic and epic fan favorites with well-known hits and is a pretty good sampling of the band’s career, and I would highly recommend it if you ever wanted to know what Genesis is really all about. A concert DVD of their performance in Rome will also be out in February, tentatively titled “When In Rome.”
I got my second Genesis boxset early this morning. It was delivered late in the evening yesterday, but I was not home and the front office was closed by the time I came home. So I had to go to bed knowing it was locked in the next building over. This is the edition with the Super Audio CDs and NTSC encoded DVDs, which I had to import from England. The American release without the SACDs will be November 20.
The set includes all of Genesis’s most popular albums and rarities from those albums, as well as rare footage and music videos corresponding to each album. The DVDs include all of the albums remixed and remastered in 5.1 surround in both Dolby Digital and DTS formats.
The albums are the self-titled “Genesis” (1983), the ubiquitous “Invisible Touch” (1986), the almost as ubiquitous “We Can’t Dance” (1991), and the post-Collins highly underrated “Calling All Stations” (1997). A bonus disc comes exclusively with the boxset which contains the B-sides from all of those albums. Each of the albums will also be available individually.
Two down, one to go.
You know Genesis is back in the public eye when Starbucks releases an exclusive compilation of their music.
“14 From Our Past” is a unique Genesis edition of Starbucks’ Opus Collection series that you can only get while you are at Starbucks to pick up your organic Green MochaFrappaWakkaWakkaLatte. It is unique in that it doesn’t try to be a greatest hits compilation or an exhaustive career-defining collection of songs, but rather it tries to concisely grab bits of Genesis’s entire career by including exactly one track from each album or album recording session since 1970’s “Trespass” up to 1997’s “Calling All Stations”. This is a very unique but great collection for those who are curious about the history of Genesis. Take a look at it the next time you’re in Starbucks, and if you’re lucky, you might hear it playing in the cafe itself.
I’ve posted a collection of my pics from the Genesis shows in Chicago on Flickr. If you previously got an e-mail from about the photos, then the link has changed to this one.
I also have a video already on YouTube of the ending to “Afterglow”, which is one of my favorite moments from the show. It’s two and a half minutes long, but you must watch the whole thing.
Many more videos are to come.