{"id":28378,"date":"2026-04-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28378"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:32:23","slug":"tesla-homage-frontiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28378","title":{"rendered":"Tesla – Homage (Frontiers)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Never a band to shy away from wearing their influences on their sleeves, Tesla are back with \u2018Homage\u2019, which is exactly what the title suggests, a cover album of their influences. Thankfully, Tesla is a band that is more than happy to sing the songs that made them the band they are today, and this new release delivers on so many levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opener \u2018Never Alone\u2019 is the only original track on the album, while it is a great song and shows the listener where the band are currently at, thankfully, it doesn\u2019t sound out of place, but it is a strange thing to hear on what is basically a covers album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the first homage up is the cover of Sam Cooke\u2019s \u2018Bring It On Home\u2019. Whenever Tesla covers a song, they do indeed make it their own, and that is the case with this classic. I mean Jeff Keith, can only sound like himself and no one else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One band I never thought I would hear Tesla cover is Queen, and with \u2018Spread Your Wings\u2019, the band have done just that, shown the song respect, and done it justice. Thankfully, Jeff Keith, along with the rest of the band, makes the song their own once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla\u2019s take on Bob Seger\u2019s classic \u2018Night Moves\u2019 is a perfect song for the band to take on and does it justice. Admittedly, it doesn\u2019t sound too removed from the original, but that\u2019s not the point here. The band are clearly having a ball paying their respects to the songs that shaped them. And none more so than on this track, which for me is easily the highlight of the whole album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another artist that I would never imagine Tesla covering is that of the King, yeah, they cover Elvis Presley\u2019s \u2018If I Can Dream\u2019, which thankfully, the band stay the right side of honouring a great song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, the band have covered the brilliant Badfinger\u2019s \u2018Come and Get It\u2019, and we all know the history behind its inception, with it being written by Paul McCartney and is, for all intents and purposes, a Beatles track. And Tesla has recorded a great version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the cover bingo card, Tesla covering James Brown is not one I would have thought would ever get ticked off – but here they go for a straightforward cover of the classic \u2018I Got You (I Feel Good). While it is a decent cover, it\u2019s not for me, as it doesn\u2019t add much to the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supertramp\u2019s \u2018Give A Little Bit\u2019 is up next and feels like it has been covered to death, but that said, the band have yet again done it justice, while making it \u2018Tesla-fied\u2019. Following this up with the first single release from this album is \u2018I Love You (2026 Version)\u2019. The Climax Blues Band cover is not one I was familiar with until I heard it on the band\u2019s 2011 album \u2018Twisted Wires\u2019. This newly updated version is sublime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other covers on the album are good, especially Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s Have You Seen The Rain. Jeff Keith\u2019s voice fits the song perfectly. As it does on \u2018The Ballad of Curtis Loew\u2019 by Lynyrd Skynyrd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing about this album is that the band, made up of Jeff Keith (vocals), Brian Wheat (bass), Frank Hannon (guitars), Dave Rude (guitars) and Steve Brown (drums), has clearly recorded songs that have inspired them throughout the years. Tesla is clearly going nowhere but up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Dave Prince<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never a band to shy away from wearing their influences on their sleeves, Tesla are back with \u2018Homage\u2019, which is exactly what the title suggests, a cover album of their influences. Thankfully, Tesla is a band that is more than happy to sing the songs that made them the band they are today, and this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1677],"class_list":["post-28378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28380,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378\/revisions\/28380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}