A new album celebrating Jesse Malin‘s music will benefit his Sweet Relief artist fund as he receives treatment after suffering a spinal-cord stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin is due out on September 20 via Glassnote, and it features covers of Malin’s work by different artists. The tracklist is still TBA, but contributors include Bruce Springsteen, Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, The Hold Steady, Tommy Stinson, Alison Mosshart with the late Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Counting Crows, Dinosaur Jr., The Wallflowers, Spoon, Susanna Hoffs, Frank Turner, and Rancid.
You can hear the first single, Bleachers‘ take on “Prisoners of Paradise,” below. In the album liner notes, David Fricke writes that Jack Antonoff takes the song “through tunnel-of-love reverb like Suicide’s ‘Dream Baby Dream’ cut after hours at Sun Records in Memphis.”
“As always in my songs, the themes are all there— transcendence, positivity and global unity through music,” Malin says. “This is what I love to do, and I’m going to do everything I can to keep doing it.” He adds, “There’s a feeling of liberation that comes with this, but I don’t want to keep repeating myself either. My whole process—since I was 13—is to progress, evolve and challenge myself on each record. I really hope people in all parts of the world can relate to these songs, just the spectrum of emotions, overcoming by celebrating life through music and art.”
The album is available for pre-order now, and you can also donate to Jesse’s Sweet Relief fund.
Jesse also has a new live album and concert film, Chasing the Light, out later this month.
