At 67-years of age, former Beach Boys guitarist Al Jardine has released his first solo album `A Postcard From California` and it features a spoken word piece from Alec Baldwin.
Baldwin recites the Stephen Kalinich poem 'Tide Pool Interlude'.The album also features guest appearances from his fellow Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love and Bruce Johnson and features Steve Miller, Flea, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Glen Campbell, David Crosby and America's Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell.
The Carl Wilson part dates back to a recording session in the 1980s. Carl died in 1998.
On the 'A Postcard From California' album, Jardine has remade his Beach Boys classic 'Help Me, Rhonda'. Al sang lead on the Beach Boys original. Two other lesser known Beach Boys songs, 'California Saga' (featuring Neil Young on joint lead vocal) and 'Honkin' Down The Highway' (featuring Brian Wilson on backing vocals), as well as the unreleased Stephen Kalinich penned Beach Boys track 'California Feelin' (which eventually did come out on a solo Brian Wilson record) are on the record.
The Baldwin voiced, Kalinich worded 'Tide Pool Interlude' features a backing track of a piano part from the unreleased Mike Love track 'Big Sur'.
The Al Jardine website has samples from the record.
