Debut album from The Smile – comprising Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, with Tom Skinner from Sons of Kemet.
An exclusive Japanese CD made available for the rest of the world, combining 2 epic live albums Europe Live Recordings 2022 & Live at Montreux Jazz Festival. Their spell bounding performance at the illustrious Montreux Jazz Festival alongside A Light For Attracting Attention live sets, only previously released on limited vinyl run. Europe: Live Recordings 2022 was recorded in various cities over the course of The Smile's first ever tour last summer. The album including the band’s rendition of Thom’s 2009 solo track FeelingPulledApartByHorses.
It’s hard to believe this album wasn’t made a long time ago, actually, since blues pianist Pinetop Perkins and drummer and harmonica player Willie "Big Eyes" Smith have worked together frequently in the past 40 some years. Perkins replaced the legendary pianist Otis Spann in Muddy Waters' band in 1969 when Smith was the drummer in the ensemble, and later Perkins and Smith formed the Legendary Blues Band in the 1980s. Perkins was 96 years old when the sessions for Joined at the Hip were recorded, but one wouldn’t know it, and Smith, now out from behind the drum kit (his son, Kenny Smith, plays drums here), concentrates on his harp blowing and handles most of the vocals. The result is a solid Chicago blues record, one that feels like it could have been tracked anytime in the past four decades…