My Morning Jacket front man never fails to disappoint and he
surely won't with his forthcoming debut solo album Regions of Light and Sound of
God (February 5th).
With the release
of the first single, "A New Life", James apparently drew inspiration
from a 1929 woodcut novel titled God's
Man. James states, "There’s a scene [in God's Man] where the main
character’s like chased out of town and he falls off a cliff and is lost and
kind of injured and this woman finds him and nurses him back to health and they
fall in love,"
He goes on to add, "And they have a child together and they have this new life that’s kind of coming. That had happened to me. Like, I had fallen offstage and gotten injured and gotten super dark and fell in love and all that was happening at the same time I was loving this book. It was like I had this beautiful illustration of what was happening in my life."
He goes on to add, "And they have a child together and they have this new life that’s kind of coming. That had happened to me. Like, I had fallen offstage and gotten injured and gotten super dark and fell in love and all that was happening at the same time I was loving this book. It was like I had this beautiful illustration of what was happening in my life."
I recently read the album is not what it seems with nine complex
songs featuring an array of sounds from soul, folk, to R&B and hip hop.
Well, if "A New Life" is just a glimpse into Regions of Light and Sound of God, it sounds
incredibly promising and I personally can't wait to hear the album in it's
entirety.
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