The Third Mind - The Third Mind 2

Double LP

2023 album from The Third Mind

Ahead of the October 27 release of The Third Mind 2, the improvisational music collective dedicated to experimenting with new, unorthodox, and unrehearsed sounds while paying tribute to groundbreaking artists like Michael Bloomfield and Fred Neil, share the third single for "Sally Go Round The Roses."

Taking on the 1963 hit by Bronx-based, all-female group, The Jaynetts, The Third Mind turns "Sally Go Round The Roses," an upbeat R&B pop song, into a mesmerizing, psychedelic rock serenade. Jesse Sykes' enchanting vocals are a perfect accent to the pleading of the electric guitar.

"Even though it was written in the early 1960s as a girl group Pop/R+B song, ‘Sally Go Round The Roses' is often mistaken for a timeless folk song," offers Dave Alvin. "I've always been attracted to its seductive, almost spooky, melody mixing classic bluesy simplicity with ambiguity and dread. While ‘Sally Go Round The Roses' has all the timeless qualities you find in traditional classic folk songs, it also possesses a perfect loose structure for some adventurous Third Mind style open ended improvisations. I love how Jesse's vocal captures the plaintive, heart wrenching warnings of the lyrics while the band's performance captures the collage of wild emotions hidden in those simple yet powerful lyrics."

"When we sit in the studio and figure out a tune, it takes a few passes to get it together. It usually comes together, but it can feel elusive," adds Victor Krummenacher. "‘Sally' is probably one of the simpler songs on the album, but it's about feel. When we were recording, we finished this song in the evening, and it felt pretty good, I was happy. We came back to the studio the next day, and our engineer Will said "why don't you just hit it one more time"... and we did, and man, it went BANG... the interplay is great, Jesse's vocal is spine chilling... Dave's solo is chewy good and the interplay between Immy and Michael during his solo gives me the cold sweats... in a good way."

The brainchild of Grammy-winning guitarist Dave Alvin and veteran alternative music bassist Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom, Eyelids), The Third Mind also features guitarist David Immerglück (Counting Crows, Monks of Doom, Camper Van Beethoven), drummer Michael Jerome (Richard Thompson, Better Than Ezra, John Cale) and vocalist Jesse Sykes from her critically acclaimed group, Jesse Sykes and The Sweeter Hereafter.

The six-song set, which runs the length of three LP sides, features an original composition, "Tall Grass," written by Jesse Sykes and Dave Alvin for the album, along with other material that reflects the band members varied musical histories from a storied time, including, "Groovin' is Easy," "Why Not Your Baby," "Sally Go Round The Roses," among others.

 

 

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