![]() I did something with this mix that I hadn't done in any of the 20 previous Deep Album Cuts mixes: I presented the artist's career in chronological order. Tracks 19 and 20 from Break Up The Concrete (2008) Tracks 15 and 16 from ¡Viva El Amor! (1999) Track 14 from Last Of The Independents (1994) ![]() Tracks 8 and 9 from Learning To Crawl (1984) Tracks 5, 6 and 7 from Pretenders II (1981) Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 from Pretenders (1980) The Pretenders Deep Album Cuts ( Spotify playlist): Still, a good time to look back at the catalog of a great, great band. Stockholm is all Chrissie Hynde, and it really sounds like a Pretenders album, really one of the best in a while. ![]() She'd collaborated with other artists many times before, and in 2011 released an album with the group J.P., Chrissie & The Fairground Boys that was pretty good, but that record was done with another singer/songwriter. Half of the band's founding lineup died tragically after their 2nd album, and the only other surviving member besides Hynde, drummer Martin Chambers, has sat out a couple albums since then (1990's Packed! and 2008's Break Up The Concrete) while remaining a touring member most of that time. This is remarkable both because she's 62 years old (and amazingly well preserved), and because I never thought she'd have any need to make an album outside of The Pretenders. This month, Chrissie Hynde released her first solo album ever, Stockholm. ![]()
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