Welcome to another edition of Mostly Summer Starting this hour with a few from the year 1982, then featuring some artist’s you know and some not yet, tracks you know and some you may not, then a varied selection of new ones, and some from album’s released earlier this year that you and I may have missed, plus the odd gig guide
 New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) is the fifth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds. The album was released in September 1982
Track: Someone, Somewhere in Summer time
 High Adventure is the fourth solo album by soft rock singer, Kenny Loggins. Released in September 1982
Track: It Must Be Imagination
 Industry Standard is a 1982 album by The Dixie Dregs. It is their only album featuring vocals (by Alex Ligertwood of Santana and Patrick Simmons of The Doobie Brothers on one track each), Simmons sang on and co-wrote “Ridin’ High”. They were used as the theme tune for Tommy Vances Rock Show Radio Program instrumental “Take it Off the Top“,
Track: Ridin’ High
 Twin Barrels Burning is the 12th studio album by British rock band Wishbone Ash. It was recorded at Sol Studios and released in 1982
Track: Hold On
 Gig Section
 Full details of theses tours can be found at ents24.com
 On 2nd September at the Fleece in Bristol, The Devon Allman Project, supported by Duanne Betts. Devon is the son of the late Gregg Allman
Ride or Die is the third solo album by Devon Allman, released in 2016.Â
Track: Live From The Heart
 On 3rd September at The Louisiana, Bristol Joey Landreth, one half of the Bros Landreth Band. Born and raised on the Canadian prairies, in 2016 Joey launched his solo career
His 2017 Recording Whiskey
Track: Hard as I Can
 On the 7th September Jon Boden is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead, will be at St Georges , Bristol
His 2017 album Afterglow
Track: All the Stars Are Coming Out Tonight
 Also on the 7th September Jacobs and Drinkwater are at St Georges Hall, Bewdley and then at The Prince Albert, Stroud 19th September
From their EP The Burning Low
Track: Burning Low
 New Music Section
 Passenger – “Heart To Love” from album Runaway
Brighton‘s Michael David Rosenberg aka ‘Passenger’ (the name of his defunct folk band) has been solo since 2009 and has released eight albums, with the ninth on the way for release on 31st August.
Ben Poole – “Found Out The Hard Way” from album Anytime You Need Me
He’s a British blues-rock musician who released his first studio album in 2016. This is the follow-up, which is set for release on 14th September. He’ll then be off on a 14-date UK tour in November and December.
Jason Mraz – “Love Is Still the Answer” from album KnowÂ
An American singer-songwriter who first came to prominence in the San Diego coffee shop scene some 18 years ago. His sixth album has just been released (10th August).. His name is pronounced as MARAZ.
Extra for MTR
 Death Cab For Cutie – “Autumn Love” from album Thank You for Today
Here’s another pre-release track from the forthcoming ninth studio album by the American indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard. The release date will be 17th August.
 Dixie Dregs, Take From The Top from the album What If, released in 1978
 Hour 2
 More from my selected year 1982
 Long After Dark is the fifth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in November 2, 1982
Track: A Wasted Life
 Good Trouble is the tenth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1982
Track: Every Now and Then
 Sheffield Steel is the eighth studio album by Joe Cocker, and released in 1982.
Track: Look what You’ve Done
 Back to Front is the 1982 album released by Caravan. Back to Frontfeatured the original lineup of Richard Coughlan, Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair and David Sinclair after 1971’s In the Land of Grey and Pink and would be the last album to feature that lineup following Richard Coughlan’s death in 2013.
Track: Taken My Breath Away
 Gig Section
 Full details of theses tours can be found at ents24.com
 Another gig on 7th September is The Lone Bellow at The Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff , The Lone Bellow is an American musical group from Brooklyn, New York, United States. Walk Into A Storm is their 3rd album, released in 2017
Track: May You Be Well
 On the 8th September at the Atrix, Bromsgrove is Chantel McGregor is a British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Her 2015 album LOSE Control
Track: Eternal dream
 Also on 8th September at the Atrix, Bromsgrove is Kelly Oliver. From her 2016 album Bedlam
Track: Same World
 On 10th September Appearing at The Earl Haig Club, Cardiff is Focus , a Dutch rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer. Focus 9 / New Skin is the ninth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released in 2006
Track: Black beauty
 New Music Section
 Children of Paradise is the twelfth studio album by American singer and songwriter Willie Nile. It was released on 27 July 2018
Track: Children of Paradise
 Out of the Blues is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Boz Scaggs
Track: On the Beach
 Toronto singer/songwriter Ben Kunder and his debut album Better Human, release date 28th September
Track: Lay Down
 Cordovas – “Frozen Rose” from album That Santa Fe Channel
A Nashville based band who have been compared to the Grateful Dead (probably by their publicist). Anyway, see what you think with this track from their second album. Out on 10th August.
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