If you’re a listener to our Making Tracks and Desert Planet Discs podcasts then you’ll be very familiar with Blues Harvest. Augies Great Municipal Band is the music that plays under our Making Tracks opening credits, while the band are featured regularly on Desert Planet, and here Blues Harvest reveal their latest release, a vinyl EP of their four-track This Is The Way EP.
£22.90 for this glorious 12″ vinyl edition, available to order now and arriving mid-September, this is one bounty you simply have to collect.
Blues Harvests This Is The Way EP brings the Star Wars galaxy to your turntable with four epic reimaginings of iconic themes. Fusing their high-energy pop-culture style with deep cinematic love, the band delivers a unique tribute to both John Williams and Ludwig Goransson.
Side A opens with The Mandalorian and Augies Great Municipal Band — a thrilling start that spans the gritty to the celebratory. On Side B, Blues Harvest unleash their fan-favorite rendition of Star Wars, blending Mecos classic disco version with sweeping moments from Reys Theme, followed by The Marshals Tale — a bluesy homage to Cobb Vanth and the frontier spirit of Tatooine.
This release was inspired by their unforgettable 2023 performance at The Forge, a Mandalorian-themed celebration in London, attended by Pedro Pascal and Jon Favreau — both of whom praised the bands interpretations. The EP also honors the Mando Mercs VokChi Clan, Oldfield Forge blacksmiths, and the community that made that night legendary.