New Album: Mike Goodspeed, Family Truckster

Mike Goodspeed’s new release “Family Truckster” is due out in September 2024. It follows his 2023 sophomore effort “Whistling Past The Graveyard”.

Boston-based bassist Mike Goodspeed continued releasing singles in 2023. Several of these featured guest musicians from across the eastern United States, helping to create his most varied sound to date. Pennsylvania-based post-classical composer and drummer Kevin Stahl provided his sublime brushwork on “The Longest Day” and funky stickwork on “The Pedantic Autodidact” and “Beyond The Oort Cloud”. New York post-rock artist Ever Onward contributed his rock-solid drum groove on “Vista Nonpareil”. New Jersey guitarist John DiStase and Nashville six-stringer Mike Valeras provided solos for “The Pedantic Autodidact”.

Goodspeed’s compositions and bass playing continue to combine rock, jazz fusion, and cinematic musical styles. A reworked rendition of his 2022 piece “Oort Cloud”, retitled here “Beyond The Oort Cloud”, follows a peaceful acoustic guitar prelude. Goodspeed’s Zon Sonus 5-string melds perfectly with Stahl’s Vinnie Colaiuta-like groove. The funky Medeski, Martin, and Wood-inspired “Flaky Pastry” follows, along with the collaborative “The Pedantic Autodidact”. “Vista Nonpareil” finds Goodspeed threading the needle of post-rock and jazz fusion, his upright taking soloing duties and his fretless Carvin performing the melody. The beautifully pensive “The Longest Day” follows, with the cinematic “Spelunking” and “Surreal Countdown” closing out the album.

Mike Goodspeed’s other releases are available on all major platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music, and are in rotation on Amazing Radio’s genre streams. For more information, visit www.mikegoodspeedmusic.com.