![]() Imagining all the empty seats these lost lives have left at kitchen tables around the country paints a pretty grim picture. The latest CDC insights also show that estimated overdose deaths from opioids totaled 75,673 for the latest 12-month period, a 35% increase from 56,064 the year before. That’s up from 78,056 for the corresponding period a year earlier. have soared by 28.5% to an estimated 100,306 during the 12 months ended in April 2021, according to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in November 2021. And with the dreadful COVID-19 pandemic now being well into its third year, that cause has taken on a new urgency: supporting individuals and families struggling to overcome addiction.ĭrug overdose-related deaths in the U.S. Since my first attendance five years ago, I’ve loved the idea behind the 10-hour spectacle to combine top-notch tribute acts with a great cause. On September 24, the annual music festival Rock the Farm returns to Seaside Heights, N.J. I’ve said it before I can hear some Jackson Browne in Thistle’s writing! Vocally, he reminds me a bit of Bryan Adams. I really find it quite impressive how mature he comes across as a songwriter. Here’s a clip of an acoustic guitar rendition. This brings me to The Dreamer, Thistle’s newly released single that came out on Friday as well. It almost sounds like a fairytale, especially if you consider Thistle only graduated from high school in 2021! Thistle’s website also mentions an impressive array of other music artists he has met and/or shared bills with, such as Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Foo Fighters, Eddie Vedder, Roger McGuinn, Steve Earle and Tom Morello. As a 13-year-old, he was hired to play at a Bruce Springsteen tribute festival in the UK. Thistle played with John Hiatt and met Steve Winwood. to see and meet him and the Heartbreakers. None other than Tom Petty spotted Thistle’s videos and was impressed enough to send him front-row tickets for Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. At the age of nine, he picked up the guitar and subsequently started posting his own videos on YouTube. This led him to watch videos of Petty on YouTube and become a music fan. It all started in 2008 one month prior to his fourth birthday when he watched Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers during the Super Bowl halftime show. Thistle has been into music for most of his young life. Subsequently, I reviewed his then-new debut CD Down the Line, released in June 2021. Last summer I saw him perform a Jackson Browne tribute show at a free summer outdoor concert. Jake Thistle is a young singer-songwriter from New Jersey who first entered my radar screen on Facebook in 2021. I think a lot of people are still finding it really hard.” And I think for so many people, there is a long tail, people really, really struggled and just because people are saying let’s move on. There aren’t stories in the papers, and no one wants to talk about those two years. Nobody’s really talking about Covid anymore. Summing up the song Rachel says, “I think one of the things about the song is that it felt like we drew a line, and it was, okay, back to normal. There’s a poignancy to the whole thing about the song.” If you’ve got a scenario in which somebody in your family or a teenager has got cancer, they’re being treated, lockdown hits, and you’re not allowed to go and visit them. So, the idea of doing this, which is it’s something that has sprung out of lockdown about mental illness, but also for this particular charity. ![]() Pete Townshend “The pandemic years were terrible for charities the Teenage Cancer Trust was created in order to take the money from a series of concerts at the Albert Hall every year and various other things and that had all dropped out. It also occurred to Rachel that young people undergoing cancer treatment may identify with these feelings of isolation. The song was inspired by the difficulties everyone had encountered emotionally due to the lack of human interaction caused by the pandemic. It also is The Who guitarist and key songwriter’s first new solo single in 29 years! According to his website, the track was composed and produced by Rachel Fuller under her nom de plume Charlie Pepper, and all proceeds from vinyl sales plus at least 10p from every download will go to the Teenage Cancer Trust. ![]() Pete Townshend – Can’t Outrun the TruthĬan’t Outrun the Truth is a new song by Pete Townshend released last Friday (March 24). One thing I continue to envisage is keeping each shorter than standalone reviews. It could be albums or singles, and I also don’t necessarily want to limit these posts to two items. Going forward, The Follow-Up will be a catch-all of new music I “missed” for Best of What’s New. This is only the second installment of my recently launched feature intended to supplement my weekly new music revue, which runs Saturdays, and I’ve already decided to adjust the rules.
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