Famous Groupies - Rehearsing The Multiverse (2019) {2020, Japanese Edition}

Scotsman Kirkcaldy McKenzie is going through some old things of his grandfather, Patrick McKenzie, who was a session player in Scotland during the 60s and 70s. He discovers some half-written songs from the 70s — some were just ideas he had jotted down, and some were demos recorded on an old tape recorder. The younger McKenzie starts working on them, piecing them into coherent works and adding lyrics and music where they needed it, always keeping the era and his grandfather’s love of music foremost in his head. The result is an album entitled Rehearsing the Multiverse, and the band is Famous Groupies, named after one of McCartney’s more eccentric songs. But there’s nothing eccentric about Rehearsing the Multiverse. It’s so reminiscent of that stress-free, life-on-the-farm McCartney era that you feel as if you’re listening to one of the former Beatle’s lost albums. Kirkcaldy McKenzie’s voice sounds eerily like Paul’s and is full of ebullience and innocence, like a young Emmitt Rhodes. In the liner notes, McKenzie invites us to put on our headphones, close our eyes “and time travel back to the golden age of music when almost everything you heard on the radio was ridiculously melodic and crafted with care.” Apparently, Rehearsing the Multiverse is just a taste of what Kirkcaldy has with his treasure trove of his grandfather’s collection while he was with Wings. Let’s hope he mixes another batch of songs together soon and gives us another peek at this wonderful era. ~ Peter Lee

Track List

01. Don't Bury Me [3:55]
02. Wouldn't That Be Lovely? [1:40]
03. We All Fall Down [2:22]
04. Tonight [0:32]
05. Be There My Love [2:12]
06. Argentines & Trampolines [2:19]
07. Fordlandia (Ford's Folley) [4:14]
08. The Traveller [5:16]
09. Rehearsing The Multiverse [2:25]
10. Love Will Find a Way [2:06]
11. Wings [2:33]
12. Coney Island Lily [3:18]
13. No Matter What (It's Only Love) [1:09]
14. She Can't Say No [3:23]
15. Let It Go [1:29]
16. What a Day [2:14]
17. Turrah [2:02]
18. Genie In a Soulmine [2:15]