When a group reaches their fifth decade like Firefall has, they develop deep roots with their fellow musicians, whether it’s from sharing touring bills or the shuffling of band members.

On their 2023 album Friends & Family, Firefall celebrated these relationships by performing songs from bands whose histories are intertwined with their own.

On May 23rd, 2025, they return with their second Friends & Family album via Sunset Blvd. Records, paying tribute to even more of those special musical relationships.

Friends & Family 2 features Firefall’s takes on hits by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, the Beach Boys, and Kenny Loggins, with special guests including Wynonna Judd, Buffalo Springfield co-founder Richie Furay, and former Elton John/Hall & Oates bassist Kenny Passarelli.

“When our first album came out in 1976 and hit it so big, we suddenly got to tour with just about everybody,” Firefall co-founder Jock Bartley explains. “Bands like Fleetwood Mac, the Doobie Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Loggins and Messina, and many more.”

Friends & Family was the brainchild of Firefall’s manager Len Fico, who also heads their label, Sunset Boulevard Records. After the original 2023 album was so well received, Fico encouraged Bartley and his current bandmates to record a follow-up.

“With Friends & Family, we’re really tipping out hat, acknowledging, and respectfully playing songs from the late ‘60s and the entire great decade of the 1970s which, frankly, will never happen again,” Bartley continues. “And there are so many people in their thirties, forties, and fifties who don’t even know this music.”

1. Love The One You’re With (Stephen Stills)
2. Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
3. Mr. Soul (Buffalo Springfield)
4. Longer (Dan Fogelberg)
5. Shakin’ (Eddie Money)
6. I’m Alright (Kenny Loggins)
7. I Need You (America)
8. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star (The Byrds)
9. Let Me Love You Tonight (Pure Prairie League)
10. Sail On Sailor (The Beach Boys)
11. Christine’s Tune (Flying Burrito Brothers)
12. Cool Change (Little River Band)

Having originally made a name for themselves in the 1970s, and have been going ever since, this brand new recording opens on their melodious cover of the timeless Love The One You’re With and an earthy version of the late 70’s cut Go Your Own Way and they are then followed by the guitar-laden, Neil Young-composed Mr. Soul, the languishing ballad Longer, and both the vibrant Shakin’ and a rather subdued rendition of the now iconic soundtrack tune I’m Alright.

Along next is their smooth as silk take on the Gerry Beckley-written hit I Need You and that is in turn backed seamlessly by a propulsive So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star (itself a song supposedly partly inspired by beloved TV band-turned-real-life superstars the Monkees), a dutifully free-flowing cover of the originally sung by Vince Gill hit Let Me Love You Tonight, an all-embracing cover of the Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson-written track Sail On Sailor, this second set rounding out on the gently rambunctious, countrified twang of the late 60’s cut Christine’s Tune, closing on the mid-tempo AOR of the Glenn Shorrock-written Cool Change.

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