Talking with Rolling Stone last year, Robert Randolph recalled the unusual complaint he received when he was working on a new album in LA. Apparently, the bass amplifier he and producer Shooter Jennings had placed in a hallway was too loud, and a couple of people in the building — T Bone Burnett and Robbie Robertson — told a receptionist it was too loud. As Randolph said, Robertson walked into the studio and said, “Oh, that’s you down here? You guys are getting funky in here.”
Robertson, who passed away last year, didn’t live to hear the finished record, but the rest of the world will when Randolph releases Preacher Kids, which he’s dubbed his “rock & roll album,” on June 27.
Randolph’s first project since guesting on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter — and his first for the classic Sun Records label that gave us Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich and…
