Artist: LESLIE WEST
Album: SOUNDCHECK LTD. EDIT. (DIGI)

Year: 2015
EAN/UPS: 819873012221
Media type: CD

LESLIE WEST’S 16th ALBUM “SOUNDCHECK” WILL BE RELEASED ON MASCOT LABEL GROUP’S PROVOGUE ON NOVEMBER 20.

“Soundcheck” is the sixteenth solo album by legendary rock guitarist Leslie West. It follows 2011’s critically acclaimed “Unusual Suspects”, which featured contributions from such accomplished guitarists and close friends as Billy Gibbons, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Steve Lukather and Joe Bonamassa, and 2013’s Still Climbing, which included blistering duets with the late, great Johnny Winter, Jonny Lang and Mark Tremonti.

For this new release, Leslie lays down some of his most inspired musical magic to date with the assistance of true rock royalty: the renown British guitarists Peter Frampton and Brian May, ex-Jeff Beck keyboard virtuoso Max Middleton, vocalist extraordinaire Bonnie Bramlett and the late great Cream bassist and longtime friend of Leslie’s, Jack Bruce. Back in 1972, Leslie made musical history with Jack when they joined forces to form the super group West, Bruce and Laing. Soundcheck is co-produced and engineered by West's collaborator Mike "Metal" Goldberg, who he shared, "helped me get my sound down on 'Tape' as they used to say, and did an amazing job as he always does."

Leslie is looking to close out 2015 and kick off 2016 with major touring in the states and in Europe, performing a combination of his time-honored classics plus the material from Soundcheck. “I’m so happy with the sound of this new record,” Leslie affirms. “The guitar sound we captured is fantastic, and my voice is feeling better than ever.”

TRACKLIST:

01.    Left By The Roadside To Die
02.    Give Me One Reason
03.    Here For The Party
04.    You Are My Sunshine
05.    Empty Promises / Nothin' Sacred
06.    A Stern Warning
07.    People Get Ready
08.    Going Down
09.    Stand By Me
10.    Eleanor Rigby
11.    Spoonful