Exclusive Album Stream: Delta Spirit Expand Their Sound on Third Album

Delta Spirit, 'Delta Spirit'

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Click to listen to Delta Spirit's album 'Delta Spirit'

Delta Spirit's third album finds the band moving away from the roots-rock sound of their earlier records and embracing a broader sonic palette similar to that of My Morning Jacket, Radiohead and Wilco.

"We found the sound that we've been looking for, that we've been growing into, and as soon as we hit on it, we ran with it," says frontman Matt Vasquez. "That’s why it's a self-titled record, so we could connect our identity with the album, because this album is what we think Delta Spirit is. People make records for their time, and we wanted to make one for our time."

The album won't be in stores until March 13th, but you can stream the record in its entirety now.

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“Piano Man”

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Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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