{"id":30238,"date":"2024-08-28T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/mick-fleetwood-and-ukulele-virtuoso-jake-shimabukuro-cover-whiter-shade-of-pale-for-upcoming-album\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:02:31","slug":"mick-fleetwood-and-ukulele-virtuoso-jake-shimabukuro-cover-whiter-shade-of-pale-for-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/mick-fleetwood-and-ukulele-virtuoso-jake-shimabukuro-cover-whiter-shade-of-pale-for-upcoming-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Fleetwood and ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro cover \u201cWhiter Shade of Pale\u201d for upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-28\/M_BluesExperienceShimabukuroFleetwood_072424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Forty Below Records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Fleetwood Mac<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Mick Fleetwood<\/strong> and ukulele virtuoso\u00a0<strong>Jake Shimabukuro\u00a0<\/strong>have released another song from their upcoming album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Blues Experience<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which comes out Oct. 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The latest is a cover of the <strong>Procol Harum<\/strong> classic \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IIJyxtQI3Nk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Whiter Shade Of Pale<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis is a song I\u2019ve always wanted to play\u2026 of course, the song recorded by Procol Harum was a world-renowned classic\u2026 with a melody so strong that it became a gift to us!\u201d Mick shares. \u201cAnd Jake totally commands the full need for dynamics and a passionate delivery. At last, I got to play and record this song!!!&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis was a song that Mick suggested. Such an iconic piece of music,&#8221; Jake adds. &#8220;It truly plays like an anthem. And Mick<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u02bb<\/span><span class=\"s1\">s drumming makes the track feel amazing. I was just transported through his drum sounds.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is the second tune the pair has shared from the record, following their take on the blues classic \u201cRollin\u2019 N Tumblin\u2019.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Blues Experience <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">also has the\u00a0two artists covering songs like <strong>Neil\u00a0Young<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 In The Free World\u201d and the\u00a0<strong>Christine McVie<\/strong>-penned\u00a0Fleetwood Mac<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>track \u201cSongbird,&#8221; with Mick also adding a spoken word version of the song. Jake penned one original song, \u201cKula Blues,\u201d about the area in Maui where Mick lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Blues Experience\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">is\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jakeshimabukuro.lnk.to\/bluesexperience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1 s3\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0now.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIJyxtQI3Nk\" title=\"Jake Shimabukuro, Mick Fleetwood - Whiter Shade of Pale\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty Below Records Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Mick Fleetwood and ukulele virtuoso\u00a0Jake Shimabukuro\u00a0have released another song from their upcoming album, Blues Experience, which comes out Oct. 18. The latest is a cover of the Procol Harum classic \u201cWhiter Shade Of Pale.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThis is a song I\u2019ve always wanted to play\u2026 of course,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/mick-fleetwood-and-ukulele-virtuoso-jake-shimabukuro-cover-whiter-shade-of-pale-for-upcoming-album\/\">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\/30238"}],"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=30238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}