![]() In 2023, Lewis’ new album, Joy’All, is being released, with a press release suggesting that singer/songwriter Skeeter Davis was a conscious influence on the record’s sound. When we last spoke in 2019 Lewis talked of various instances of serendipity – “the magic of life” – that went into the writing, recording and promotion of that year’s album, On the Line: from somehow getting Ringo Starr to play drums on two tracks to the album’s front cover coming from a Polaroid that just fell to the ground during a light test with photographer Autumn de Wilde.Īnother happy coincidence came with a different picture for that record’s back cover, when she learned that her friend had just handed her one of Isaac Hayes’ stage costumes to wear for the shoot – the design of Hayes’ record Black Moses ended up influencing the unfolding deluxe edition vinyl cover for On the Line. She shimmies and shakes, lost in music, her legs as antsy as Elvis Presley in his prime.“I feel like I’m creating my own simulation sometimes, but I’m unaware until I find the garment that lets me know I’m on the right path,” Jenny Lewis tells me.Ī new record from the Nevada-born and California-raised Lewis doesn’t start with an outfit, but a chance encounter with an item of clothing seems to be a regular catalyst for good things with a new record’s finalisation. “It gets harder to be me every day,” bemoans Our Hero, who has shed her straitjacket and ripped open her satin cowboy shirt to reveal a red bra. ![]() Halfway through, the song moves to half time as De Wilde and band explore Black Sabbath-esque doom. “I’ve got ants on the chair - they bite like a bear!” She’s got them in her home, in her bones, when she’s eating, when she’s dreaming, when she won’t and when don’t. While constrained, Arrow bemoans the titular insects, which seem to have consumed not just her pants but her entire being. Her confidence in front of the camera stands to reason: She is the daughter of the renowned Los Angeles rock photographer Autumn de Wilde and the granddaughter of West Coast hippie chronicler Jerry de Wilde. Led through the crowd of Echo Park rock club the Echo in a straitjacket, the gangly singer has a natural ease onstage, and conveys crazy charisma and energy across the two-minute song. Too, Vince Gill helps out on a version of Roger Miller’s “Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me).” “Going where the water’s clear and the air is cleaner/ Than the California Coast.”Įlsewhere on the album, Campbell offers last takes on classics of American song including Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright,” Dickey Lee’s country weeper “She Thinks I Still Care” and “Funny How Time Slips Away,” on which the singer duets with its writer, Willie Nelson. ![]() “Going up north where the hills are winter green/ I got to leave you on the California Coast,” he sings. It’s the last song on the album, which comes out June 9, and Campbell delivers it with impressive emotional depth. ![]() Penned by seminal Los Angeles songwriter Jimmy Webb, whose “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” Campbell propelled onto the charts, “Adios” is a bittersweet goodbye. Now in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the longtime Angeleno says farewell in the title track to his final album. Glen Campbell, “Adios” (Universal Music).
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