JESSE MALIN / VARIOUS - Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin - 2CD [DEC 6]

2CD.

"As always in my songs, the themes are all there- transcendence, positivity and global unity through music," says Jesse Malin. "This is what I love to do, and I'm going to do everything I can to keep doing it."

Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin is a tribute and benefit album, with all proceeds to Jesse Malin's Sweet Relief artist fund. "This record is a dynamite and long-overdue awareness project, non-stop star time in vigorously personal twists on behalf of a great rock & roll songbook," writes longtime supporter, David Fricke. In May 2023, Jesse Malin suffered a rare spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Last December, Malin told Rolling Stone, "I have a lot of anxiety and insomnia. Your mind goes into some dark places. But I just have to keep a positive outlook and believe." He is now undergoing a strict daily regimen with physical therapy and stem-cell treatments. "I am getting some strength back in my legs, but it moves a lot slower than I would like. I don't want to portray it like I'm ready to do the James Brown splits onstage. I definitely have a long way to go, but I'm blessed and so grateful for the amazing fans and friends that I have."

Fricke adds, "Jesse Malin knows about scars - from his youth, observation and more. They all carry tales, and he's not done telling them. Silver Patron Saints is the gang back at the bar, coming to the stage to toast the composer and his story so far." Long a contributor to other people's causes, Malin is grateful to all the musicians who have rallied around him. 

Tracklist: 

Disc 1:
1    Prisoners of Paradise - Bleachers
2    Oh Sheena - Counting Crows
3    She Don't Love Me Now - Bruce Springsteen
4    Black Haired Girl - Billie Joe Armstrong
5    Brooklyn - Dinosaur Jr.
6    About You - Frank Turner
7    Turn Up The Mains - Alison Mosshart, Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Steven Van Zandt, Mike Watt, Joey C.
8    Room 13 - Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, with Ray Kennedy
9    Don't Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day) - The Wallflowers
10    The Way We Used To Roll - Spoon
11    Shane - Rocky O'Riordan
12    In The Modern World - Butch Walker
13    High Lonesome - Susanna Hoffs

Disc 2:
1    Greener Pastures - Graham Parker
2    Meet Me at the End of the World - Alejandro Escovedo
3    Death Star - The Hold Steady
4    Riding On The Subway - Tommy Stinson and Ruby Stinson
5    St. Mark's Sunset - The Walker Roaders
6    Dead On - Ian Hunter
7    Almost Grown - Danny Clinch and Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
8    Shining Down - Aaron Lee Tasjan
9    When You're Young - Low Cut Connie
10    All the Way from Moscow - Willie Nile
11    No Way Out - Rancid
12    You Know It's Dark When Atheists Start to Pray - Gogol Bordello
13    God is Dead - Agnostic Front
14    Frankie - Murphy's Law