Artists may even feel pressured by reviewers and themselves to go into a deep stasis, only to emerge again when they’ve reinvented themselves into a newly revamped and retooled model, as opposed to just capturing time in a bottle and offering more to their catalog. Managers will tell you that there’s too much money to be made on the road, so the album cycle goes on and on to support that. Press people will tell you that there’s a bottleneck of too many artists covered by too few media outlets who always want to talk about something new. I’m having nightmares about feedback.In 2015, the talent for creating a prolific output of exceptional music is almost a curse. There’s a lot of acoustic guitar on this record. It might sound a little bit different than on the record, but I think it will be a fun and cool learning experience to work them out in some way or another. Usually when I’m doing a record, I keep that in the back of my mind. How do you plan on touring these new songs-full band or alone?
My heart goes out to all the people that are feeling super insane, or being prosecuted, or whatever right now. I try not to talk about it publicly too much, but just to make a difference in my immediate community instead. But, you know, I live in the States and things are really crazy right now. I think it's kind of hard for anybody to not really be political these days, but I don’t think the album really reflects that too much. But is this kind of thing on your mind right now? I’m not expecting your album to be like, “Oh, now Mac’s political”-it’s not really your style of songwriting. You did a Planned Parenthood benefit a year ago. I’m a fan of the new one, and hopefully the one next year. Rest her soul, you know, it’s just crazy, but I’m a fan. I saw it the night before Carrie Fisher passed away, so it was a bit strange to wake up the next day. Some elements of it were a little jarring for me.
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And for people like us, it’s kind of like, “Hey, why not?” You know, why not have it? It’s nice because it doesn't really follow the set-in-stone 2017 movie routine where it’s like, okay, set it up for something else, you know? It’s not like, “We’ll only give them half the fun, then they gotta come see the sequel.” It's cut-and-dry. We watch Star Wars even more than we watch MacGruber. It’s a story that didn't have to be told, but for me, and especially Jon, and Andy that plays in my band, we’re big Star Wars fans. Here’s my opinion on it: It didn’t have to happen. Any thoughts on the newest Star Wars movie, Rogue One? You like Star Wars so much that you even wrote a review of The Force Awakens. They keep you in this cold green room, and Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter walked by. We found out earlier, and Andy, my guitarist, is like the biggest MacGruber fan on the planet. We did Conan O’Brien’s show one time, and Will Forte was the guest. Last fall you and your whole band performed live dressed as Will Forte’s character from “Saturday Night Live,” MacGruber. I have texted with him a little bit, and he's a really nice dude. You know, I liked it and thought that it was great. What was it like being covered by the guy from “Stranger Things”? I mean, you try, but it’s something to reach for, so it’s cool. The problem with listening to guys like that is like, “Yeah, cool, I’ll try to do a more acoustic-y sounding record.” These guys have written, like, some of the greatest pop songs of all time! So, yeah, a little hard to emulate, it’s almost frustrating. I knew how huge he is, but I didn’t know a lot of his stuff. When I started writing the record, yeah, I was listening to a ton of James Taylor and a ton of Paul Simon. Were you listening to anything in particular that influenced this new one? You and Jon Lent from your band have been covering everybody from Prince to James Taylor. Which was funny, deciding on the singles, but you know.
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It’s definitely one of those things where the album makes more sense as a whole, a full thing rather than single, single, single. it fits on the album, but it's a little bit different-kind of a sister song to “ Chamber of Reflection.” There are two others on side B, one called “One More Love Song” that has real acoustic piano in it, which I’ve never recorded before. But that one's a little bit bossa nova-y sounding, I suppose.
I think my favorite song on the record is the first song from side two, “Dreams From Yesterday.” I tried to do a bossa nova album when I was younger, maybe when I was 20 or something.