Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors - Come Together (2020)

This whole project, in which the Satan & Adam documentary connected me with Sterling Magee's nephew Rod Roderick Patterson, a remarkable creative artist in his own right, has been a joy-filled endeavor from Day 1. Rod, Alan Gross, and I recorded the album in an upstairs bedroom at a house in Water Valley, Miss., over the course of a pair of weekends back in January and February with the help of my favorite engineer and production guru, Bryan Ward. (Bryan also contributed harmony vocals and bass on one track apiece. And Jerry Jemmott, the Groovemaster, made the title track infinitely groovier with his bass-clef magic.)
Little did we know what sort of challenges and changes were about to break across the American landscape this spring and early summer.
Nine of the eleven tracks, including "Heartbreak," were songs that I performed and/or recorded with Mr. Magee. Two of the tracks, "Come Together" and "So Mean," are our originals. (Lyrics by Rod in the first case; lyrics and music in the second.) The album design was by Rod as well.
Satan & Adam fans will want this, in other words. But we hope the rest of you will check it out.