Nearly four years later and I’m still mad that I was stuck in Oneonta during this.
For the last couple of months there have been a lot of rumors about you recording an album with Andy or Manchester, what’s going on with that?
I did, and it will come out probably in the fall. It’s so far 8 songs, I wrote 4, he wrote 4. I don’t think it will be called like Manchester Orchestra featuring Kevin Devine though. I think there’ll be some kind of band name for it. We did it in Atlanta in January and I’m excited to see what happened with it because I really like it. I really like the songs, and I think it’s cool.
Sound wise it is more of a Right Away, Great Captain! and you sound or is it…
I think it’s sort of all of it. There are definitely some rockers on there that are sort of in the Manchester vein. I think it’s about 6 full bands songs, or maybe 5, and 3 super acoustic ones. But, it’s kind of all over the place. There’s also some stuff that’s like more dirgy, it’s lower, and heavy. Then there’s like a song that I contributed that’s like the poppiest song I’ve ever written. It’s like a total sugar song, I mean like not lyrically, but musically. It’s kind of all over the place. I think that there’s stuff on there that would surprise people from what we normally do but it’s not totally out of the realm of what people think we do.
How did that come together?
I always talk to this stuff with a lot of people I work with. Like, “Oh it’d be cool to make a record.” And finally it was like, “Let’s actually do it.” So I’m trying to do more of that with other people too, but it’s hard with schedules and stuff. But that just worked out. We both had a week in January and went and did it.
You think you would tour with them, maybe?
As this thing? I think we’ll do something for it. I think it’ll…I might sneeze, it’s not happening, okay. I think it would probably be in the fall, but all those things still have to kind of get hammered out.
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I’m selfish enough to want to get better, but I’m backwards enough not to take any steps to get there. And when you realize it’s a pattern and not a phase- it’s what you’ve become and it’s what you will stay, that’s ballgame. ‘Cause I don’t got room in my life for anyone else and I’ve driven away all the people that could help. And I still don’t even know what I need to do to fix myself.
Well, either way I realize that my shit’s about as small as it could be but that makes me feel worse for even feeling this bad in the first place.
For now it’s just what I am, but it’s not what I’ll be. Oh, hopefully.
This video is definitely reminiscent of Bright Eyes, but I love it all the same.
From the show at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, NY on November, 28th.
A bunch of pictures will be popping up on your dashboards over the next day or so. Enjoy!
When you were standing in that crowd, it didn’t feel like THAT many people were there. Wow.
