Jesse Malin Tribute on Red, Green & Gold Rasta Colored Vinyl 3LP!
Featuring Bruce Springsteen, Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Spoon, The Hold Steady & More!
All Proceeds to Benefit Jesse Malin's Sweet Relief Fund!
"As always in my songs, the themes are all there—transcendence, positivity and global unity through music," says Jesse Malin. "This is what I love to do, and I'm going to do everything I can to keep doing it." Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin is a tribute and benefit album, with all proceeds to Jesse Malin's Sweet Relief artist fund.
"This record is also a dynamite and long-overdue awareness project, non-stop star time in vigorously personal twists on behalf of a great rock & roll songbook," writes longtime supporter David Fricke.
Long a contributor to other people's causes, Malin is grateful to all the musicians who have rallied around him, including Bruce Springsteen, Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, The Hold Steady, Tommy Stinson, Alison Mosshart with the late, great Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Counting Crows, Dinosaur Jr., The Wallflowers, Spoon, Susanna Hoffs, Frank Turner and Rancid, among others.
Hear the first single, "Prisoners of Paradise" by Bleachers, and watch the visualizer video. Jack Antonoff takes the song "through tunnel-of-love reverb like Suicide's 'Dream Baby Dream' cut after hours at Sun Records in Memphis," writes Fricke in the liner notes. The triple-vinyl tribute set Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin, is available on Glassnote Records.
"There's a feeling of liberation that comes with this, but I don't want to keep repeating myself either," adds Malin. "My whole process—since I was 13—is to progress, evolve and challenge myself on each record. I really hope people in all parts of the world can relate to these songs, just the spectrum of emotions, overcoming by celebrating life through music and art."
In May 2023, Malin suffered a rare spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Last December, Malin told Rolling Stone, "I have a lot of anxiety and insomnia. Your mind goes into some dark places. But I just have to keep a positive outlook and believe." He is now undergoing a strict daily regimen with physical therapy and stem-cell treatments.
"I am getting some strength back in my legs, but it moves a lot slower than I would like. I don't want to portray it like I'm ready to do the James Brown splits onstage. I definitely have a long way to go, but I'm blessed and so grateful for the amazing fans and friends that I have," he told Rolling Stone.
Fricke adds, "Jesse Malin knows about scars – from his youth, observation and more. They all carry tales, and he's not done telling them. Silver Patron Saints is the gang back at the bar, coming to the stage to toast the composer and his story so far."
Features
- Red, Green & Gold Rasta Colored Vinyl
- 3LP
- Gatefold Jacket
- Photos by Vivian Wang
- Designed by Sam Harris
- Liner Notes by David Fricke
- All Proceeds to Benefit Jesse Malin's Sweet Relief Fund
Selections
Side One:
- Prisoners of Paradise – Bleachers
- Oh Sheena – Counting Crows
- She Don't Love Me Now – Bruce Springsteen
- Black Haired Girl – Billie Joe Armstrong
- Brooklyn – Dinosaur Jr.
- Turn Up the Mains – Alison Mosshart, Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Steven Van Zandt, Mike Watt, Joey C.
Side Two:
- Room 13 – Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, with Ray Kennedy
- Don't Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day) – The Wallflowers
- The Way We Used to Roll – Spoon
- Shane – Rocky O'Riordan
- In the Modern World – Butch Walker
Side Three:
- High Lonesome – Susanna Hoffs
- Death Star – The Hold Steady
- St. Mark's Sunset – The Walker Roaders
- About You – Frank Turner
- Riding on the Subway – Tommy Stinson and Ruby Stinson
Side Four:
- Greener Pastures – Graham Parker
- Meet Me at the End of the World – Alejandro Escovedo
- Dead On – Ian Hunter
- Almost Grown – Danny Clinch and Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
Side Five:
- When You're Young – Low Cut Connie
- Shining Down – Aaron Lee Tasjan
- Queen of the Underworld – Fantastic Cat
- All the Way from Moscow – Willie Nile
Side Six:
- No Way Out – Rancid
- You Know It's Dark When Atheists Start to Pray – Gogol Bordello
- God Is Dead – Agnostic Front
- Frankie – Murphy's Law
