An Interview With Mark Chesnutt Over At The 9513

Saguaro Road Records has recently released neo-tradionalist favorite Mark Chesnutt’s new collection of all-American, all-time favorite, whiskey-soaked standards— an album appropriately called Outlaw.

The album features re-recordings of some of Chesnutt’s personal heroes and life-long friends such as Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings (for whom Mark’s eldest son is named.) The product of producer Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam/Michelle Shocked/Tanya Tucker), Outlaw is a true-denim-blue Mark Chesnutt-branded musical composition.

I had an opportunity to interview Chesnutt for the granddaddy of all country music blogs, The 9513. Read a snippet below and then click HERE to read the entire interview.

"I didn’t want the album to sound like a modern country record. I didn’t want it to sound like what was going on in Nashville right now. Anytime you work with Pete Anderson, you’re going to get Pete Anderson sounds. He’s such a unique guitar player and music guy. We didn’t want it to sound like Nashville because we weren’t in Nashville. We recorded this out in Burbank in Pete’s studio out in California. It was a big thrill for me because in all my career I had never cut anything other than in Texas or Nashville. I started out recording in Texas, but everything else was in Nashville. This was a big thrill to go somewhere else and cut some music."