{"id":29813,"date":"2024-06-27T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-billy-f-gibbons-guest-on-steve-cropper-the-midnight-hours-new-album-friendlytown\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:03:28","slug":"brian-may-billy-f-gibbons-guest-on-steve-cropper-the-midnight-hours-new-album-friendlytown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-billy-f-gibbons-guest-on-steve-cropper-the-midnight-hours-new-album-friendlytown\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May &amp; Billy F Gibbons guest on Steve Cropper &amp; The Midnight Hour\u2019s new album, &#8216;Friendlytown&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-27\/M_SteveCropperFriendlytown_062724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mascot Label Group\/Provogue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Queen<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Brian May<\/strong> and <strong>ZZ Top&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Billy F Gibbons<\/strong> lend their musical talents to <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Friendlytown<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, the new album from <strong>Booker T and the MG&#8217;s<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Steve Cropper<\/strong> and his band <strong>The Midnight Hour<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">May sings and plays guitar on the first single released from the record, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VtbwjtPWD2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Too Much Stress<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d which also features Gibbons on guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Cropper notes, \u201cIt was\u00a0heaven playing with those two.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, the follow-up to Cropper &amp; The Midnight Hour&#8217;s 2021 Grammy-nominated album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Fire It Up<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, also features a guest appearance by guitarist <strong>Tim Montana<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf your booty is not shaking in the first two bars of this album you\u2019re already dead in a chair,\u201d Cropper shares. \u201cI feel so good about this batch of songs. They\u2019re packed with radio hooks, and we have Billy Gibbons, Brian May, and Tim Montana playing on the album\u2014it\u2019s like guitar heaven.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Friendlytown<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, due out Aug. 23, is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/stevecropper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> now.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtbwjtPWD2M\" title='Steve Cropper and The Midnight Hour (feat. Brian May) - \"Too Much Stress\"' frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mascot Label Group\/Provogue Queen\u2019s Brian May and ZZ Top&#8217;s\u00a0Billy F Gibbons lend their musical talents to Friendlytown, the new album from Booker T and the MG&#8217;s guitarist Steve Cropper and his band The Midnight Hour. May sings and plays guitar on the first single released from the record, \u201cToo Much<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-billy-f-gibbons-guest-on-steve-cropper-the-midnight-hours-new-album-friendlytown\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}