Gallo, Ron - Checkmate WRP291.1

Gallo, Ron - Checkmate WRP291.1The very last day of recording the album that became checkmate, Ron Gallo wrote and recorded the title track. Which, in his words, half jokingly, is "my first true love song that also happens to be the best love song ever written". It encapsulates the entire purpose of the album which takes his previous motto "The world is fucked, but the universe is inside you" and changes it to "The world is ending, what can I hold on to?". After years of navigating

On January 28th

the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield to the Rocky Mountains and beyond

he went into the studio the following year with frequent collaborators

drum rhythms he and Tony Allen honed to perfection

the band reunited to tour the world

and his signature wrap-around shades

JAM [8:05]

This period's first Kinks album

The Punishment Due

which can shift from a charming falsetto to the lead of a sing-a-long in an instant

Cass McCombs enters the double-digit-album phase of his career

but distinctly unique and unprecedented