![]() ![]() The band is on an unplugged tour that stops at the Merriam Theater Saturday. “Glyn helped open things up for us, and because of him, we came away with a more live-sounding album.” “We were being a bit too perfect with our last album,” Bridwell says. Glyn Johns, who has produced The Who, Led Zeppelin and a number of other iconic bands, was behind the board during for the "Mirage Rock" sessions. “It has its rough-sounding moments, which is what I like.” “What I like about ‘Mirage Rock' is that it is what we sound like live,” Bridwell says. “It’s been stable, which is a good thing.”īand of Horses' latest studio effort, "Mirage Rock," comprises ambitious, raw, melodic songs, reminiscent of the Jayhawks at their breeziest. “I can’t say how great it is that things have turned out so well,” Bridwell says. Its debut, "Everything All the Time," turned ears in 2006, but it was 2010’s "Infinite Arms" that put the act on the map. Band of Horses has consistently churned out dreamy, moving country-rock. “It’s not an easy existence when you don’t live inside four walls,” Bridwell says. "It wasn’t easy getting sleep.”īridwell isn’t the only notable musician to be sleepless in Seattle or at least in the state of Washington: Kurt Cobain slept under a bridge before Nirvana emerged. “I remember being in a sleeping bag inside a Ryder truck," he says. Well, Ben Bridwell certainly appreciates how well his group, Band of Horses, has been received since it broke in 2010.īridwell was a homeless musician in Seattle a dozen years ago. ![]() ![]() The former Black Flag vocalist felt musicians who taste success early don’t appreciate it. Henry Rollins once waxed about how important it is to suffer for one's art. ![]()
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