That was probably the first time that I did it the way I did it here. I was there during the curfew times, and nobody was coming in and out of there, so I was sending things off from there. Because I was in New Orleans, not during the hurricane but directly after the hurricane. Was this the first time you’d ever worked remotely like that?ĭULLI: No, I’ll tell you, the first time I did it was during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And know that that was the last stuff I recorded with him and will be now - that’s a bittersweet feeling for sure. Certainly as time goes on, it’s rather unexpected that Mark left us. So I’m pretty proud of that fact of the record. For something that was made across state lines, it’s really cohesive, and it sounds like we’re all in the same room. It’s as surreal as the times it was created in. So when I hear this record, I hear a little more of that. We were all basically kind of cut off from each other for a long time, and in order to find some sort of normalcy or community amongst it all, you had to do things like “everybody test and go into a bubble” and things like that. In terms of this record, I don’t really hear it haunted as much as I hear it kind of searching for an escape. I think about Dave Rosser, Shawn Smith, Mark Lanegan, Ted Demme, all of my friends who have gone before me at least once a day. And I don’t even think I realized it until I went back and listened to it that I was working through my feelings of his loss. GREG DULLI: Honestly I think Dave’s loss hung over my solo record a little more than this one. How did Dave’s absence hang over the whole thing? Was it hard to reproduce what he brought to the table?
This strikes me as a little bit of a haunted album since it’s the first one since Dave Rosser’s death, and then also since your close friend and collaborator Mark Lanegan dying, though he was alive during the recording of it. Below, read our conversation and check out the new video for How Do You Burn? single “A Line Of Shots.” How Do You Burn? (2022) In a phone call from his Los Angeles home this summer, he shared some of those tales, touching on his history with the late Mark Lanegan, Dave Grohl, Usher, film director Ted Demme, and more. He’s made an enormous amount of music with an eye-popping array of collaborators, accumulating lots of good stories along the way.
He should be: How Do You Burn? is another impressive entry in this band’s catalog, capturing a new shade of the soulful glamour and back-alley danger that have always coursed through Dulli’s work.ĭespite the breadth of their discography, the Whigs represent only a fraction of Dulli’s accomplishments. The pandemic necessitated remote recording, a rarity for Dulli, but he’s pleased with the results of the process. It’s an album born from an extended moment of isolation around the globe, performed by a group that has always thrived in the immediacy of live rock ‘n’ roll. But as soon as the smoke clears, the Whigs have settled into something more graceful, melodic, and dreamlike while maintaining the grit and scuzz of that initial blast.Īccording to lead singer and songwriter Greg Dulli, How Do You Burn? - the first Whigs release since the death of guitarist Dave Rosser in 2017 - reflects the strange circumstances of its creation. An inferno of roaring guitar chords and pounding drums, it’s a powerhouse track that makes for a grand introduction. We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.Īfghan Whigs’ first album in five years starts with a feint - if a song that rocks as hard as “I’ll Make You See God” can be described as a feint.
0 kommentar(er)
