Butch Walker is through recording solo albums and will instead celebrate his catalog, beginning with the 2004 album 'Letters.'
is putting a period on his recording career as a solo artist. Ironically, the singer-songwriter came to that decision while gearing up to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his breakthrough solo album,“I don’t want to be that cliché of an aging artist that puts out new shit that nobody cares about,” Walker tells. “And when you write so many records doing a certain thing, you start to worry about recycling and repeating yourself.
“When the Marvelous 3 dissolved, it was a very depressing time for everybody. I ended up making a record that was basically just me worried about losing the fan base that we had built,” he says ofand its alt-rock sound. “It wasn’t authentic to me. But I had this box of letters that my mom had saved up in the attic, like old girlfriend letters and letters to my parents, and so I wrote stories based around that.”, specifically Walker’s desire to escape from L.A. back to his native Georgia.
Other tracks are less about Walker and more about those whose stories affected him. In “Mixtape,” he gives thanks to a failed relationship that gifted him “the best mixtape I have.” The song ended up on the teen dramaIn “Joan,” the imagined life story of a survivor of domestic violence, Walker wrote his first piano ballad and, what he calls, his “first real song.” It still appears in his set list to this day.
On Monday and Tuesday in L.A., and Thursday and Friday in Nashville, Walker will perform “Mixtape,” “Joan,” and the rest ofsolo on guitar and piano.
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