Listen to Mike Erelli's vivid HerTownNow!
An open mic performance in the Oregon woods was the birthplace for Mark Erelli's "Her Town Now," premiering exclusively onErelli and co-writer Chuck Prophet were serving as instructors at a songwriting camp preceding a folk festival and played some songs during an introductory open mic.
"I really loved what [Prophet] did and was looking to force myself to collaborate and break down ways you may not have known were in your mind," Erelli, whose "By Degrees" is up for song of the year at this year's Americana Music Association Honors & Awards," Erelli tells. "Chuck’s more of a rock 'n' roller than I've been in the past. I thought he might be able to help me make something out of this chorus I had for ['Her Town Now'].
Prophet also brought in his frequent collaborator, poet Kurt "Klipschutz" Lipschutz, to help out and craft Erelli's goal "to explore the concept of something that once belonged to two people and now very clearly belongs to just one of them" after a romantic breakup. "Chuck helped me get in touch with that more stripped-down rock 'n' roll vibe -- 'Let's not wait too long 'til we get to the chorus,' that type of thing," explains Erelli, who wrote two other songs with Prophet during their session. "For a long time I had been trying to get at the essence of what I connected with and what I loved in Tom Petty songs.
There will be even more of that on the new album, Erelli's 12th, which he recorded in Nashville with his bassist Zachariah Hickman (
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