If You Hear Any Noise . . .

. . . it's just George Clinton with a new album coming out on Tuesday, George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love. The Boston Globe has a preview story about the album, which is apparently mostly an album of old R&B and doo-wop tunes with special guests including RCHP, Sly Stone, and Carlos Santana. It was Carlos, of course, who got the ball rolling with the old-legend-does-big-album-with-lots-of-special-guests. And I also blame him for the fact that I hear the Michelle Branch song that he played guitar on every single time that I go into the grocery store.

But no doubt this album will be more interesting than Supernatural, if only because I don't really believe that Clinton would toe the Clive Davis commercial party line like Santana did. And, having just briefly listened to the samples of the album up on Amazon, I'm intrigued that the track "Heaven" samples one of my favorite Prince songs, "If I Was Your Girlfriend."

And while we're on the topic of George Clinton (and let's be honest, when aren't we on that topic?), did anyone notice the way that Young Jeezy's new album cover seems to be referencing Clinton? The picture above from Clinton's Greatest Hits album isn't the best representation, but there are a ton of close-up images of Clinton around with his dreads framing his face. So that's what the picture of Young Jeezy with (apparently) an American flag around his face immediately called to my mind. Anyway, you be the judge.