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BMGThe Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde has unveiled full details of her long-in-the-works jazz-dub record, Valve Bone Woe, a collaboration with award-winning producers and film score composers Marius de Vries and Eldad Guetta.

The album will be released September 6, and features 14 tracks, including songs written and/or recorded by Brian Wilson, The Kinks‘ Ray Davies, Frank Sinatra, Hoagy Carmichael, Charlie Mingus, John Coltrane, Nick Drake and Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Accompanying Hynde on the record is a musical collective called the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble. Two tracks from the album are available now: covers of The Beach Boys‘ “Caroline, No” and the melancholy jazz standard “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” which has been recorded by many artists, including Miles Daves, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Sting.

The tracks are available now digitally and via streaming services, and fans pre-ordering Valve Bone Woe will receive instant free downloads of them. You also can check the songs out at Hynde’s YouTube channel.

“I’m not hugely interested in branching out into other musical genres, being a devout rock singer as such, but jazz is something I grew up around (thanks to my bro) and I’ve always had a soft spot for it,” Chrissie explains to Clash magazine. “I often bemoan what I regard as a decline in melody in popular music and I wanted to sing melodies.”

Valve Bone Woe is available on CD, as a two-LP vinyl set and as a vinyl box set featuring seven seven-inch discs. Various special bundles can be purchased at Hynde’s online store.

In support of the album, Chrissie and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble will play special shows July 6 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and September 14 at London’s Hyde Park.

Here’s the album’s track list:

“How Glad I Am” (Jimmy Williams, Larry Harrison)
“Caroline, No” (Tony Asher, Brian Wilson)
“I’m a Fool to Want You” (Frank Sinatra, Joel Herron, Jack Wolf)
“I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)” (Hoagy Carmichael)
“Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters” (Charles Mingus)
“Once I Loved” (Norman Gimbel, Vinicius De Moraes, Antonio Jobim)
“Wild Is the Wind” (Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiomkin)
“You Don’t Know What Love Is” (Don Raye, Gene De Paul)
“River Man” (Nick Drake)
“Absent Minded Me” (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill)
“Naima” (John Coltrane)
“Hello, Young Lovers” (Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
“No Return” (Ray Davies)
“Que Reste-T-il de Nos Amours” (Charles Trenet)

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