| North Hollywood Shootout | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Blues Traveler |
| Cover: | Blues Traveler - North Hollywood Shootout.jpg |
| Released: | August 26, 2008 |
| Recorded: | Feb 2007; Early 2008 |
| Genre: | Rock, psychedelic rock |
| Length: | 42:05 |
| Label: | Verve Forecast |
| Producer: | David Bianco[1] |
| Prev Title: | Cover Yourself |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Suzie Cracks the Whip |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
North Hollywood Shootout is American jam band Blues Traveler's tenth studio album, released on August 26, 2008, and produced by David Bianco, a 1996 Grammy winner. In a notable departure from previous Blues Traveler releases, the album includes a spoken word piece featuring Bruce Willis.
This album marked the band's return to Universal Music Group, which owns their previous label A&M Records, and also their current label, Verve Forecast Records (along with the catalog of Sanctuary Records, another label the band was on at one point).
During early writing and production of this album, the members of Blues Traveler began to experiment with re-arrangements of various older songs, and put this album on hold to record Cover Yourself for their twentieth anniversary. The recording sessions for the two albums were held back-to-back.
Early reports cite the disc as having 11 tracks,[2] [3] but the supposedly official track listing released to amazon.com had only 10 tracks listed on it.[4] However, a later version of the track listing released on the Barnes and Noble website included the supposedly missing 11th track (apparently track 10), "The Landing," [5] along with a 30-second sample of the song. "The Landing" eventually became an iTunes exclusive song.