Chris Shiflett on his new album 'Hard Lessons,' life outside the Foo Fighters and more
, Shiflett has played the world’s largest venues and shared bills with some of rock & roll’s finest acts. On a Friday evening in Nashville in mid-May, though, he’s preparing to step out onto a stage that intimidates even him: that of the“It’s not something I ever expected to even get asked to do, you know,” Shiflett says, hanging out in his dressing room with his band and road team a couple hours before show time. “Which makes it even more special to me.
“It’s been a long day,” he says, sighing. “I woke up at four in the morning today and had to get up at five to make my flight, then my mind just started racing, thinking about goofy stuff. ‘What if there’s no power for my pedal board?’ Then we get to the airport and our flight’s delayed four-and-a-half hours. It’s just one of those days.”, his second official solo release and the follow-up to 2017’s acclaimed.
“It’s such a different dynamic than playing with a loud rock & roll band,” Shiflett says of performing at the venue. “Even my version of Americana — or alt-country, whatever you wanna call it — still winds up being pretty loud and a little dirty. I didn’t think I was going to get a sound check with the guys, and the fact that we were able to do that just now… I think I needed that to just let the pressure valve off. Now I can just enjoy it.”itself sounds like Shiflett blowing off steam.
Sonically, the album is built on guitar-forward, arena-ready Americana — big, sing-along anthems with nary a ballad in sight. Shiflett retained the ever-in-demand Dave Cobb to oversee, coming up with an album that is bigger and bolder than its predecessor. It places Shiflett right in the sweet spot of all his musical interests.
Though he’s been with Foo Fighters since 1999, Shiflett has consistently been active with a number of side projects. He’s played on 11 albums with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, an all-star line-up of rock players who come together to cover and reinterpret classic punk and rock songs. He’s released two albums as Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants, a country project that hinted at where he’d go with his solo releases.
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