New Release: - Mitch Ryder - With Love

Artiest/Band: Mitch Ryder Album: With Love Release: 21 February 2025 Label: RUF Records When an artist of Mitch Ryder’s calibre looks back over their storied six-decade career and tells you their latest album is essential listening, you should take that statement seriously. Ryder, as anyone who has followed the roots and branches of American music will attest, is one of the faces carved onto rock ‘n’ roll’s Mount Rushmore, and the spiritual forefather to every blue-collar firebrand – from Bruce Springsteen to Ted Nugent – who ever turned up their amp and hollered their truth. He’s the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who was there at the flashpoint in the late -’50s...... When an artist of Mitch Ryder’s calibre looks back over their storied six-decade career and tells you their latest album is essential listening, you should take that statement seriously. Ryder, as anyone who has followed the roots and branches of American music will attest, is one of the faces carved onto rock ‘n’ roll’s Mount Rushmore, and the spiritual forefather to every blue-collar firebrand – from Bruce Springsteen to Ted Nugent – who ever turned up their amp and hollered their truth. He’s the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who was there at the flashpoint in the late -’50s. He’s the hitmaker who tore up the charts in the mid-’60s with Detroit Wheels cuts like Jenny Take A Ride and his reworking of Devil With A Blue Dress On. Amongst his myriad claims to fame, Ryder was both the last man to play with Otis Redding (in 1967), and the first living white artist inducted into the R&B Hall Of Fame (in 2017).   Mitch Ryder For many musicians of Ryder’s vintage and status, age heralds a creative slowdown and reliance on the hits. But as he broaches his eighth decade, the Michigan-born singer-songwriter remains in constant motion, his backstory only rivalled by what is yet to come. It’s an attitude epitomised by the new Don Was (Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Iggy Pop) -produced studio album With Love, released February 2025 on Ruf, and packed with tough, tender, personal songs that stand alongside anything in his catalogue. “Out of the 21 studio albums that I have recorded, this one is in the top two,” considers Ryder, reflecting on a catalogue that began with 1966’s Take A Ride with The Detroit Wheels. “It is one of the most honest albums I’ve ever made. Not that the other ones were lies, but I was able to access previously hidden feelings.” The stellar musicianship was certainly a catalyst, but no doubt the real driving force behind With Love are Ryder’s ten new originals: as smart, satirical, witty and wry a collection of songs as the veteran songwriter has ever gathered on an album. From the woozy Latin-rock grooves of Oh What A Night and Pass It To The Right (an ode to joint etiquette at a hedonistic party) to Sanguine’s playful soul and the Stonesy chop of Wrong Hands, there is still no second-guessing Ryder’s songcraft. “Everything on the album is autobiographical,” he explains of a tracklisting that plays out with The Artist’s ghostly self-analysis and the joyous-sounding but morbid R&B of Just The Way It Is, exploring the inevitability of life and death. “One Monkey is about my drug addiction and how I overcame it. Fly is about my career and being happy about it, the trajectory and body of work I was able to produce.” Incredibly, more than a half-century since Mitch Ryder first lit up the rock ‘n’ roll radar, With Love proves this lifelong visionary still has creative gas in the tank. “Practice makes perfect,” he smiles of a growing discography that is plainly the work of a man still reaching for something greater. “I haven’t gotten there yet but I’m working on it…” The first single “Fly” from the upcoming album “With Love” will be released on January 17th, you can pre-save & stream it HERE Duration: 03:37 05.02.2025– Halle, Objekt 5                               06.02.2025 – NL-Oss, Groene Engel                 07.02.2025 – Mainz, Frankfurter Hof                  08.02.2025 – Göttingen, Exil                             09.02.2025 – Hamburg, Knust                             12.02.2025 – Nürnberg, Hirsch                           13.02.2025 – München, Muffatwerk-Ampere                   14.02.2025 – AT-Innsbruck,Treibhaus               15.02.2025 – Winterbach, Strandbar             19.02.2025 – Bremen, Meisenfrei           20.02.2025 – Bochum, Zeche                               21.02.2025 – Bensheim, Parktheater             22.02.2025 – Ulm, Roxy         23.02.2025 – Bonn, Harmonie                             26.02.2025 – Lindewerra , Gemeindesaal       27.02.2025 – Münster, Hot Jazz Club              28.02.2025 – Kiel, Räucherei                                 01.03.2025 – Rostock, Zwischenbau                                                04.03.2025 – SK-Bratislava, Muzeum Obchodu   05.03.2025 – Lichtentanne, St.Barbara       06.03.2025 – Berlin, Frannz Club             07.03.2025 – Neuruppin, Kulturhaus 08.03.2025 – Dresden, Tante Ju