Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers - Translucent Blues (2011)

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Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers - Translucent Blues (2011)

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Co-founder of The Doors, Ray Manzarek and slide-guitarist extraordinaire Roy Rogers have collaborated on projects before and have been very successful at it. This is there second album.

Ray Manzarek said of the album, "This is a head-first dive into American contemporary Blues. Roy and I take the unique art form of the Blues and add a 21st century twist to the genre. We are working with a group of great American poets: Michael McClure, famed beat and close friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg; Jim Carroll of 'The Basketball Diaries' fame; Warren Zevon - the 'Werewolf of London' himself; and Michael C. Ford, noted L.A. jazz poet and good friend of Jim Morrison's. Their lyrics are superb, succinct, now, and salient. What Roy and I have weaved around their words are songs that are not standard 12 bar, but do, in fact, live and breathe in the dark, underground world… of the Blues! 'Translucent Blues'"

Roy Rogers added, "This collaboration with Ray was a joy from start to finish. We found inspiration not only from the music and lyrics, but most of all from each other–to create a great sound. To me, the blues is as complex a music as it gets–either you feel it or you don't. But when you add the spice of some of these lyrics, it definitely takes you on a different route. Take a ride with us."