Money’s posthumous album Songwriter is about to launch on June 28
Johnny Money has a brand new posthumous launch out Friday referred to as “Highlight,” that includes guitar elements from the Black Keys‘ Dan Auerbach.
“Highlight” is the second single launched forward of Money’s upcoming album Songwriter, comprised of demos Money wrote over a number of years and recorded at Nashville’s LSI Studios in 1993. Money’s son, John Carter Money, not too long ago rediscovered the demos and took his father’s vocals and acoustic guitar, enlisting musicians Marty Stuart, Dave Roe, and Pete Abbott so as to add guitar, bass, and drums. Carter Money Produced the upcoming album alongside David “Fergie” Ferguson.
“Highlight” itself is riddled with Auerbach’s bluesy flare, sonically just like the Black Keys’ 2021 challenge Delta Kream wherein the band coated a few dozen nation blues tracks. The tune additionally spotlight’s Money’s signature, impossibly low baritone.
“It was the fun of a lifetime to have the ability to play guitar on a Johnny Money tune,” Dan Auerbach mentioned in a press release. “Listening to his voice via the audio system in my studio despatched chills down my backbone. I can’t thank John Carter and Fergie sufficient for together with me.”
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Other than Auerbach’s guitar, Songwriter additionally enlists options from fellow nation legends Vince Gill and Waylon Jennings. The album, Money’s first posthumous launch since 2014, is about to launch later this month on on June 28. Again in April, Carter Money shared the album’s first single “Nicely Alright.”
“We simply went rudimentary,” Carter Money beforehand mentioned of the album in a press release. “We went straight to the roots, so far as the sound, and tried to not overly improve it. We constructed as if dad was within the room. That’s what we tried to do. Between the each of us, Fergie and I’ve spent hundreds of hours with dad within the recording studio, so we simply tried to behave like he was there: WWJCD, proper?”
