BEN HARPER - Give Till It's Gone - May 17th

JL19851

There's no word on which band members he worked with on this, but there is mention that Jackson Browne harmonized on a tune with him and that Ringo Starr worked on a couple of tracks as well.

Give Till It's Gone Track List:

1. Don't Give Up On Me Now
2. I Will Not Be Broken
3. Rock N' Roll Is Free
4. Feel Love
5. Clearly Severely
6. Spilling Faith
7. Get There From Here
8. Pray That Our Love Sees The Dawn
9. Waiting On A Sign
10. Dirty Little Lover
11. Do It For You, Do It For Us

RYEzupSF

:thumbup: Awesome!

JL19851

Yeah, this is one of those do or dies as a fan for me. I was really pumped about Relentless7 for a while, and after that, I have sort of had Ben Harper fatigue. Fistful of Mercy seemed to be good to me, but I just can't get into it for some reason.

I am still curious as to how this album will sound, considering the 00's seemed like a confused decade for him. A bunch of albums that were all over the place (producing both some of his finest and some of his most curious music) after the 90s were really an incredible output for him. I have a feeling this is Ben flying solo with just the guest appearances listed...though I think I would prefer he worked either with the Innocent Criminals or with R7.

slightlystoned

sweet new album means a tour hell yes

mfc2006

just got the email update & i must say that i'm pretty stoked about this!

LukinFan

This is the R7 album that was supposed to come out last Fall! SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Digital Twilight

LukinFan wrote:

This is the R7 album that was supposed to come out last Fall! SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No it looks like a solo project to me. Ben Harper has booked some dates as well on his own. Hope that means we are getting a solo and a R7 album.

magicredbengal

I just checked my e-mail and found the same update. I can't wait to hear it and hopefully he announces a US tour soon!

On a side note- Marvel's animated movie Thor: Tales of Asgard comes out the same day!

Champagne Breakfast

So this may be different from the innocent criminal and R7? So much Ben! I'd love to hear some BH & IC's again. How about a little will to love and diamonds on the inside....

LukinFan

Digital Twilight wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

This is the R7 album that was supposed to come out last Fall! SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No it looks like a solo project to me. Ben Harper has booked some dates as well on his own. Hope that means we are getting a solo and a R7 album.

I'm just going by what Rolling Stone reported last year - I tried to find the link to the article, but was unsuccessful. If it's either a solo album or a R7 album - I'm stoked! REALLY hole that he tours some where close by me, too!

Yellow Ledbelly

LukinFan wrote:

Digital Twilight wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

This is the R7 album that was supposed to come out last Fall! SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No it looks like a solo project to me. Ben Harper has booked some dates as well on his own. Hope that means we are getting a solo and a R7 album.

I'm just going by what Rolling Stone reported last year - I tried to find the link to the article, but was unsuccessful. If it's either a solo album or a R7 album - I'm stoked! REALLY hole that he tours some where close by me, too!

The initial report in Rolling Stone was that it was an R7 album and that is was actually completed last spring/early summer

Digital Twilight

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

The initial report in Rolling Stone was that it was an R7 album and that is was actually completed last spring/early summer

Yeah it was listed on Ben's website as just a 'Ben Harper' release but it has been changed now to R7. Can't wait

capthowdy1027

I hyped for this one, but I do hope it's an R7 album.

dcfaithful

Digital Twilight wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

This is the R7 album that was supposed to come out last Fall! SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No it looks like a solo project to me. Ben Harper has booked some dates as well on his own. Hope that means we are getting a solo and a R7 album.

I have the same hopes, but yeah this seems like a solo record.

Can't wait for this to drop though. I know some people can't dig on him, but I like nearly everything Ben Harper has done.

LukinFan

dcfaithful wrote:

Digital Twilight wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

This is the R7 album that was supposed to come out last Fall! SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No it looks like a solo project to me. Ben Harper has booked some dates as well on his own. Hope that means we are getting a solo and a R7 album.

I have the same hopes, but yeah this seems like a solo record.

Can't wait for this to drop though. I know some people can't dig on him, but I like nearly everything Ben Harper has done.

I love everything that is Ben Harper - the guy can do no wrong

capthowdy1027

Digital Twilight wrote:

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

The initial report in Rolling Stone was that it was an R7 album and that is was actually completed last spring/early summer

Yeah it was listed on Ben's website as just a 'Ben Harper' release but it has been changed now to R7. Can't wait

I'm not questioning you really, but I don't see anywhere on the site where it says it's an R7 album. The album cover just says Ben Harper on it.

BH304897

Personally I've always thought that any Ben Harper was much better live than on the studio albums and since he's going to play in Denver, I'm pumped. As far as fistful of mercy I really think it's the same, download kexp's podcast of them live and see what you think of it then. And if your into podcast theres none better than npr's live concerts on podcast, some excellent stuff.

awilkins

Solo record as per this.

LukinFan

awilkins wrote:

Solo record as per this.

Well, I was hoping for another R7 album, but I'll take a solo album as well

Digital Twilight

I was going off this but granted this is an old article.

http://www.benharper.com/#/blogs/new-be ... tarr-jacks

looks like it started out as R7 then changed to a solo ?

awilkins

Digital Twilight wrote:

I was going off this but granted this is an old article.

http://www.benharper.com/#/blogs/new-be ... tarr-jacks

looks like it started out as R7 then changed to a solo ?

That's what I'm thinking.

JL19851

Right, only Both Sides had solo material, work with the Innocent Criminals, and work with what was to become Relenetless7. So then still no word on who played with him on this.

I also think it interesting that I can almost guess what the songs will sound like based on their titles...

g under p

Either way in a band or solo Ben is just great to see live.

Peace

LukinFan

g under p wrote:

Either way in a band or solo Ben is just great to see live.

Peace

well said

g under p

LukinFan wrote:

g under p wrote:

Either way in a band or solo Ben is just great to see live.

Peace

well said

Ben is real cool person A'S I met him back stage before and after the langerado Festival in South Florida. He carried on a conversation A'S if he was your friend or maybe he was so down to earth because my friend Michael Franti was with me. He had just released Both Sides of a Gun and we just talked about how rare it was for artists to release double albums.

Peace

Champagne Breakfast

Mr. Ben is comfusing everyone with his now massive musical resume. He's everywhere! What a great problem to have

Malcolm-Edge

'Rock N' Roll Is Free' is one of the Starbucks iTunes picks this week and Im really enjoying it.

It has a R7 feel to it, really catchy, its a damn good rock song.

LukinFan

Malcolm-Edge wrote:

'Rock N' Roll Is Free' is one of the Starbucks iTunes picks this week and Im really enjoying it.

It has a R7 feel to it, really catchy, its a damn good rock song.

How do you get the song? Gotta go into the store?

Malcolm-Edge

Yeah, and by the register or where you pick your drinks up they're little cards.

capthowdy1027

I don't know if I'm just blind or something but I haven't seen a preorder for the vinyl on benharper.com but I just found it on Amazon for only $10.84. Although it says that the release date is June 21st so I guess it's not coming out when the CD comes out.
http://www.amazon.com/Give-Till-Its-Gon ... 073&sr=8-1

Of The Aggie

capthowdy1027 wrote:

I don't know if I'm just blind or something but I haven't seen a preorder for the vinyl on benharper.com but I just found it on Amazon for only $10.84. Although it says that the release date is June 21st so I guess it's not coming out when the CD comes out.
http://www.amazon.com/Give-Till-Its-Gon ... 073&sr=8-1

The website says vinyl pre-order coming soon so who knows when that will be. I'm holding out for the website pre-order since it might be signed like the CD was for a time.