{"product_id":"just-like-achilles","title":"Just Like Achilles","description":"\u003cp\u003ePete Molinari is a country blues singer, songwriter from the Medway Delta. He was born into a large\nMaltese \/ Italian \/ Egyptian family in Chatham, Kent, where he was discovered by Billy Childish.\nHe’s got five critically-acclaimed albums’ worth of timeless folk, blues, rock and alt-country songs to his\ncredit, plus a bunch more EPs.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust Like Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e is the distillation of everything Pete has learned since those years on the road as a\ntravelling troubadour, playing tiny theatres and coffee houses everywhere from London, to New York, Paris\nto Nashville and around the world, eventually taking him to the most celebrated venues such as The Royal\nAlbert Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust Like Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e brims with big songs and huge choruses. After a first listen, it’s like you’ve known and\nloved this record forever. Although surprising for some who think he is the lone songwriter with his guitar,\nPete is a big fan of Pop. Yes, somewhat of a dirty word today, but it is that timeless and well-crafted pop that\ncreated so many hit songs in the past that we still adore today.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePete’s songs always cut straight to the heart of the matter. No fat, no artifice, no histrionics. The sound is\nreal. Live. Real people playing real instruments. Front and center are Pete’s own majestic guitar chops and\nunique, soulful voice. Even on Achilles’ sadder songs, there’s a buoyancy and potency to them, an infectious\neffervescence that imbues life is for living, and it is that loving of life that we find celebrated in every song,\narrangement and composition.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo coincide with Just Like Achilles highly anticipated release, Linda Perry organized an extraordinary event.\nShe booked out the legendary Capitol Records’ Studio A and hit her contacts list to pull together a\nsupergroup to join Pete in performing his new songs live in the studio. It included legends Ronnie Spector\nand Don Was, plus Mike Garson and Gail Ann Dorsey from the David Bowie band. Evan Rachel Wood also\ncame along to sing on a couple of songs, while Jakob Dylan duetted with Pete on a very special version of  “Waiting For A Train”.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, everything was ready to go, ready for release. This was the beginning of 2020. And then .... well, as we\nall know, everything stopped. Now, two more years on, this is Take Two: \u003ci\u003eJust Like Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e is finally set to\nreceive the release it always deserved.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blind Faith Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50454396928331,"sku":"2003688","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50454399222091,"sku":"2003689","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Just_Like_Achilles_5fc9eb4c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727183332","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/just-like-achilles","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}