[Cover photo credit to Sue Kane]
Rochester, NY, classic Garage Rock band The Chesterfield Kings have announced an October 11th, 2024 release date for their new album We’re Still All The Same, arriving via Wicked Cool Records.
Fronted by Andy Babiuk (guitar historian/consultant and author of ‘Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four’s Instruments from Stage to Studio’, ‘Rolling Stones Gear’ and other books), The Chesterfield Kings’ new 14-track album features the recent singles “Fly The Astral Plane”, “Electrified” (co-written with Stevie Van Zandt), and “Meet You After Midnight.”
We’re Still All The Same was recorded at Fab Gear Studios in Rochester, NY and produced by Ed Stasium (The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Smithereens, Mick Jagger to name a few) and serves as the band’s first LP in 15 years, after a lengthy hiatus.
Throughout the recording of the album, The Chesterfield Kings used over 50 vintage guitars and also vintage amps and keyboards (culled from Babiuk’s vast collection), resulting in a blend of classic tones and Rock ‘n’ Roll spirit.
Babiuk says:
When we set out writing the songs for the new album we stuck to our roots and what people know us for. Our producer Ed Stasium came to Rochester, and we recorded 20 new songs in August of 2023. We had a blast working with Ed pulling out a ton of vintage guitars, amps, keyboards and other odd instruments, coming up with interesting sounds that you really can only get out of vintage equipment. Ed took the tracks back to his studio in California and did an amazing job mixing the LP and also mixed the record in the new ATMOS format.
The title of the LP comes from a track on the album ‘We’re Still All The Same’. It’s a song I wrote that’s a social statement about people and humanity in general. People should stop fighting about religion, politics, race and everything else and realize that we may have different opinions or ideologies but in the big picture of things it really doesn’t matter. We actually have more things in common and in the end we’re really still all the same. If you think about how small the world is compared to the universe, we are all just a speck of dust. We should just be happy that we are all human, alive and we get to make it around a flaming sun once a year!
Wicked Cool Records has also recently digitally reissued several lost recordings from The Chesterfield Kings.
Included among these titles are the 2002 single “Barbara Ann”, the 1997 EP Trippin Out, the 1999 single “Where Do We Go From Here”, the 1998 single “Wrong From Right”, the 2001 single “Yes I Understand”, and the 1999 full-length album Where The Action Is.
Greg Prevost & Andy Babiuk explain:
Wicked Cool Records is reissuing the long lost Chesterfield Kings recordings from the band’s Living Eye Record label that the group revived in the mid-1990s. None of these works have been available officially for several decades and will finally be made available in pristine quality. We think that Wicked Cool Records is the perfect home for the old Chesterfield Kings’ catalog.
