Mostly We Drive - Michael Messer & Chaz Jankel

Virtuoso slide guitarist Michael Messer and multi-instrumentalist, Chaz Jankel (Ian Dury & The Blockheads) release Mostly We Drive – The first single and title track from their finely crafted, lyrically inventive collaboration via Knife Edge Records/Proper Music. Stream on all platforms here 🔗 Single release - Nov 17 2023 / album release - Jan 19, 2024. These two superb songwriters wear decades of combined musical experience lightly, as the eleven original songs here display a freshness of approach and add new twists to their foundational influences in Blues, Funk, World, New Wave and Rock. This exhilarating and accessible collection bears comparison with the finest work in either of their garlanded careers. This title track lopes along, inflected with guitars that speak of both cowboy trails and Hawaiian hulas – “One day we die, the rest we’re alive/Some days we walk, mostly we drive.” When the cops pull the narrator over, he wonders – “Wil