Knee: 2022

Forever on My Mind, the new album of previously unreleased Son House recordings from Easy Eye Sound, the independent label operated by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, is the premiere release from Waterman’s personal cache of ’60s recordings by some of the titans of Delta blues. His collection of quarter-inch tapes — which are being restored to remarkable clarity by Easy Eye Sound — have gone unreleased until now.

In New York it is impossible, almost forced, not to end up trapped by the music of Philip Glass. His operas sound at the Metropolitan Opera, his portrait by Chuck Close on the 86th Street subway and that “Mad Rush” of the city that never sleeps. This project was born influenced by the performer’s musical moment and circumstances after having lived in the Big Apple for 7 years.

Old dogs, olde tricks, auld untreated rabidity — Between Painted Doll, Violation Wound, Siege of Power, and the steady return of Autopsy this last decade or so, no doubt we’ve gotten more from death metal’s premiere gore astronaut Chris Reifert than ever since folding Abscess but it’d take Grammy award-winning engineer and recent Autopsy detainee Greg Wilkinson (Brainoil, Deathgrave, et. al) to get the ol’ brain swelling up with what’d turn out to be a pretty wild, probably somewhat impromptu idea…