Album: The Next Waltz Volume 2
Label: The Next Waltz
Release date: November 29, 2019
The second installment of singles is being released from The Next Waltz. Recorded at Bruce Robison's The Bunker in Lockhart with no digital shenanigans, the new LP will be out November 29th. The project will only be available on Bluebonnet swirl colored 180 gram vinyl (limited run of 500) or classic black. Digital download included. The beautiful cover art was created by Kerry Awn of Armadillo World Headquarters / Armadillo Art Squad fame.
The Next Waltz is a multi-faceted project bringing just about all of Robison’s musical interests under one big tent. In a nutshell, it’s a website (www.thenextwaltz.com), internet TV show/video podcast, online radio station, and a record label — albeit one at present and focused exclusively on producing digital-only singles, all of them recorded and mixed analog as all get-out at Robison’s new(ish) dream studio in Lockhart, Texas, Bruce’s Country Bunker.
“I’m starting with three and a half minutes,” he says with a laugh. “That’s what I’m asking people for: ‘Please just give me this three and a half minutes, listen to this.’ That’s how they did things back in the day at Stax or Motown, and man, you’ve really got to be able to turn their head in that time. And so that’s what we’re going for.”
The way it all works is, Robison and his Next Waltz team — including filmmaker Spencer Peeples — invite artists of the country/Texas/Americana persuasion out to the studio to film a short biopic/interview and to record a brand new single, usually with Robison’s own hand-picked Muscle Shoals/Wrecking Crew-inspired regular cast of ace Austin players. The recording of the song is filmed for its own video, and all three pieces — biopic, song video, and downloadable single — are then posted to the site and shared as far and wide as the web can carry them, from YouTube and iTunes to Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and Google Play. “We are going to make these songs available in every sort of way you could want to consume them, download or streaming,” says Robison. “We’re saying yes to every bit, everywhere.”
Volume 1 included the likes of Randy Rogers, Jack Ingram, Wade Bowen, Holly Williams, Turnpike Troubadours, Reckless Kelly, Hayes Carll, Jerry Jeff Walker and more.
Volume 2 includes:
Side A
"Whiskey In Your Water" - Evan Felker
"A World So Full of Love" - Shakey Graves
"Sober Heart" - Flatland Cavalry
"Edge of the Colorado" - Carrie Rodriguez
"The One I Was Then" - William Clark Green
Side B
"Don't You Think I Feel It Too" - Carson McHone
"Left My Girl Behind" - Wood & Wire
"Without You" - James Steinle
"Love's A Word I Never Throw Around" - John Baumann
"If I Had A Rose" - Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison
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