Blood Chet And Tears (Verve By Request) TSOV-302.3; The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak

The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City features a very special guest: bassist Tommy Stinson (The Replacements/Bash & Pop/ Guns N Roses)

"Private Dancer"

and a nascent romance

a beautiful and intimate musical articulation of internal struggle and continues with the playfully tongue-in-cheek "Boo Hoo

Polar Music (via Universal) have issued a 45 RPM half-speed mastered double vinyl edition to celebrate

Blood Chet And Tears (Verve By Request) TSOV-302.3; The Deadbeat Bang of HeartbreakSomewhat of an oddity in Chet Bakers catalog, Blood, Chet & Tears is a record of Chets efforts to adapt to the changing musical landscape around him in 1970. Baker leans into light and easy listening territory. His renditions of the Beatles Something and The Archies Sugar, Sugar gives some indication as to who he was intending to appeal to. On a different note, Bakers rendition of Come Saturday Morning, a song that received an Oscar nomination for