Michael Vincent Releases New Album ‘Sky Blue (C’Mon, C’Mon!)’

Indie rock artist and Bay Area favourite Michael Vincent, known for his eclectic compilations of bright new originals and well-worn favourites across his seven-album history, comes blazing out the door with his eighth powerhouse full-length release, Sky Blue (C’mon, C’mon!), out everywhere now!

Not unlike his previous albums, Sky Blue (C’Mon, C’Mon!) includes edgy indie rock, power pop, and songs influenced by garage and grunge rock, with a couple of songs from Vincent’s folk-rock era. Sky Blue (C’Mon, C’Mon!) also includes a collab with heavy-hitter indie rock artist Charles Normal, who these days hails from Skien, Norway. His older brother, the late Larry Norman, was a rock hero to Michael Vincent (Michael’s band Home Free opened for several of the artists from Larry Norman’s “Street Level Artists” stable). And while collaborating with Charles on completing some of his brother’s unfinished songs, Michael visited Charles in Norway and recorded a rough version of C’mon, C’mon!. Charles, in turn, recorded his own original arrangement and sent it to Michael, who added his signature vocals, completing the track.

As Vincent says:

“The energy of Charles’ arrangement is so ‘in-your-face’ unavoidable, it just makes sense to have the song come right out of the chute! It grabs you by your shirt and hauls you away! Having it kick off the album immediately adds to the energy of all the other songs that come after it.”

Michael’s last album, Electric Fox, was highly acclaimed worldwide in multiple national online music magazines and was the #2 album in the US on The Roots Music Report for the month of July 2023. 

For Bay Area locals, you can catch his set tomorrow night, Nov 8th, at San Gregorio General Store in celebration of the album’s release on Angel Blossom Records, Michael’s own Bay Area independent label that he formed with his wife Janet Klein Hollingshead. He’ll be performing all ten songs with his backing band U NO WHO. This is also the first of Vincent’s releases to be released on vinyl.