Paul Gilbert, the indestructible guitar wizard, chameleon and virtuoso without equal, dropped a new studio album, “WROC”, on February 27 via Music Theories Recordings.
Below you’ll find a new video for the single Spark Of Celestial Fire, taken from the freshly released album.
Also below are the other singles that came out during the promo run for the new album: Turn Not Your Back (To Others), Speak Not Evil Of The Absent, Let Thy Carriage, Keep Your Feet Firm And Even, Conscience Is The Most Certain Judge, Go Not Thither, If You Soak Bread In The Sauce and Show Not Yourself Glad (At The Misfortune Of Another).
Joining Paul in the studio for this single were:
Doug Rappoport (guitar)
Timmer Blakely (bass)
Nick D’Virgilio (drums)
“WROC” stands for “Washington’s Rules Of Civility” (roughly “Washington’s Rules of Politeness” in Slovenian, editor’s note), and, believe it or not, it may be the guitar superstar’s most unusual work yet. Gilbert took George Washington’s famous code of conduct as the conceptual thread of the album, daring to think outside the box. His main source of inspiration was a late-16th-century etiquette handbook.
WROC will be a vocal album, the first one Gilbert has put out since 2016’s “I Can Destroy”. This time there’s less drilling with supersonic tremolo picking and less of the slide work he used to coax Ronnie James Dio’s voice out of the guitar, but it’s definitely an album with which Gilbert keeps expanding his unstoppable, one-of-a-kind musical adventurism.
You can already order the album “WROC”.
“WROC” track list:
1. Keep Your Feet Firm And Even
2. Show Not Yourself Glad (At The Misfortune Of Another)
3. Maintain A Sweet And Cheerful Countenance
4. Go Not Thither
5. Orderly And Distinctly
6. If You Soak Bread In The Sauce
7. Let Thy Carriage
8. Speak Not Evil Of The Absent
9. Turn Not Your Back (To Others)
10. Conscience Is The Most Certain Judge
11. Every Action Done In Company
12. Spark Of Celestial Fire
13. George Washington Rules
