For those unaware, composer Steve McAllister has released his brand new album I Hope You Are Okay, and which featuring members of XTC, Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen and Robert Plant. It is compiled of ten songs, recorded primarily during COVID with everyone working from home, featuring amazing, stellar players.

Says Steve, “It was a fun process: I’d write a song and form, send it to the drummer. It’d come back to me, I’d make a few additions then send it to Mike or Dave. Back it’d come, more tweaks, then on to the next person. Finally, off to the mixer. Then we’d go ‘round with the next one. Despite it being recorded in California, Arizona, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Texas, and England, it sounds like a band in a room.”

1. Because I Love You Too Much
2. Something In The Water
3. Roll On
4. Get Yourself Together
5. No
6. The 3rd Side Of An Egg
7. On It Like A Narcotic
8. Sunshine Ladies
9. A Letter To My Son
10. Sailor’s Waltz

This magnificently sculpted, well cultivated blues-pop-rock collection, opens on the quietly impassioned Because I Love You Too Much and the laid back blues rock of Something In The Water and then proceeds to bring us the poppy hipsway of Roll On, the atmospheric Get Yourself Together, and then comes the beautiful, almost ethereal balladry of No.

Next up on this album, which is also his first under his own name, is the esoteric The 3rd Side Of An Egg and the bouncy pop-rock of On It Like A Narcotic, and they are in turn backed by the languishingly ornate Sunshine Ladies, the album rounding out on the blues-hued rock balladry within A Letter To My Son, closing on the aptly-named Sailor’s Waltz.

Says Steve, “I’ve been a musician my whole life. I’ve composed film scores, written jingles, dabbled with game music, performed with an orchestra, toured in a van, and composed a few hundred works for an enormous variety of clients.”

In-between drawing maps of places that don’t exist and trying to learn Portuguese, Steve McAllister has had a bizarre and entirely unique relationship with songwriting. He wrote the conference music for the World Economic Forum for some years. Those globalist’s ears were feasting on his music and didn’t even know it. At least two members of the RnR HOF have played on his records, and at least one sitting President has listened (in addition to a Texas Governor). Music for commercials and film work. A ballet.

Slipping through the cracks were day-jobs, tangents, asides, and about 15 albums worth of songs, as either leader or co-leader. Plus assorted singles, EPs, and such. Slippery things, songs. Along the way he’s hidden behind a variety of alibis, aliases, band names, pseudonyms, and nom de plumes. So many, it’s hard to keep track.

Featured Musicians:
Rafael Bernardo Gayol (Leonard Cohen, A-ha, Robbie Robertson) - Drums
Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai) - Guitars
Dave Gregory (XTC, Peter Gabriel) - Guitars
Dana Colley (Morphine) - Saxes
Dony Wynn (Robert Palmer, Robert Plant) - Additional Drums

Official Purchase Link

www.stevemcallistermusic.com

Steve McAllister @ Facebook