A welcome presence from rock’s recent past has reemerged with the release of “Welcome to My World” by ‘80s American band The Call, a previously unreleased track featuring the deeply missed voice of the late Michael Been. The song is vintage Call, a sweeping hook laid atop a driving rhythm, making it music worthy of both dancing and listening.
The song is part of “The Lost Tapes” collection, which gathers assorted tracks from The Call’s career that, for whatever reason, never made it onto one of the band’s nine studio albums. The Call’s three surviving members — Jim Goodwin, Tom Ferrier, and Scott Musick — are presently overseeing a Kickstarter campaign to not only bring previously unheard music to light but also remaster and rerelease on both vinyl and CD the band’s 1986 album…