After a long, long year,Chris Shifletthas new music to share.
On Thursday, theFoo Fighterslead guitarist, 51, dropped thelyric video for his new single “Long, Long Year"ahead of its wide release on Friday.
Shiflett recorded “Long, Long Year” in Nashville with Grammy-winning producer Vance Powell and musicians including bassist Jack Lawrence ofThe Raconteurs, drummer Julian Doro of Eagles of Death Metal, keyboardist Mike Webb, steel guitarist Luke Schneider and mandolinist/harmony vocalist Sierra Hull.
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“The first thing I had for this song was the chorus, but I didn’t wanna write a song specifically about COVID, so I kinda worked it into a sad love song,” Shiflett toldConsequence of Sound. “So the vibe on this one grew out of isolation, loneliness, and missing my normal life.”
Chris Shiflett.Jarrod Anthonee
“I spent a lot of time alone at my studio in LA during the first part of the lockdown just woodshedding tunes,” said the musician in a press statement. “The line ‘It’s been a long, long year’ was rattling around my head for obvious reasons, but I framed it as a love song.”
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“It’s been a long, long year, ain’t it?” Shiflett sings on the track.
The mid-tempo song also features sentimental lyrics such as “I watched your smile slowly start to fade when the daylight chased the stars away.”
“Overall the vibe in my head was pretty ’90s, like ’90s soft alt-pop roots or something,” he told Consequence of Sound. “It just felt like something that maybe woulda been on the radio in 1997.”
“Long, Long Year” is the first of two new standalone singles to come this year from Shiflett, according to Consequence of Sound.
source: people.com
