It reflects the changes to his own peripatetic life as he assumes a new role as APHC host and, behind the scenes, as a new dad-while continuing to play with his band Punch Brothers and collaborate with such artists as Brad Mehldau, Edgar Meyer, and Yo-Yo Ma. Thanks for Listening represents perhaps the most direct and personal material Thile has ever recorded. Part of the story Thile found was autobiographical.
As they listened through the APHC versions, Thile and Bartlett realized that, taken together, these songs could form an album-length narrative. In July 2017, Thile went into New York City's Reservoir Studios with producer and longtime friend Thomas Bartlett and that's when these songs gained an even deeper resonance. They served the needs of the show but were just as timely and engaging on their own. These were not throwaway radio bits, but smart, fully realized compositions. In addition to traveling, planning, rehearsing, and performing on the fifteen episodes of APHC's 2016–17 season, Thile managed each week to create a funny, topical, and at times quite poignant new song he would play with a rotating cast of APHC band-mates and guest stars. Thile had set himself a formidable musical challenge and, as befits this enthusiastically risk-embracing artist, he was more than up to the task.
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Pre-orders of Thanks for Listening are available now and come with an instant download of the album track "Thank You, New York," the lyric video for which you can watch below.Thanks for Listening began as a simple idea: To document, in a studio setting, the tunes that singer, songwriter, and mandolinist Chris Thile had composed for the new "Song of the Week" segment of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion during his inaugural season as host. The recording also includes guest vocal artists Sarah Jarosz, Gaby Moreno, and Aoife O'Donovan. Thile manned all the stringed instruments during the album sessions, save for bass and viola. " Thanks for Listening is a celebration of people who haven't switched off, despite being given every reason to do so."įor Thanks for Listening, Thile and producer Thomas Bartlett chose ten songs from nineteen possibilities and created new studio recordings of them, rather than merely documenting them as originally performed.
"Right now, with how easy it is to be the talker on social media, how hard it is to maintain focus or give something enough attention to appreciate it, we're in a place where listening is a precious commodity," says Thile.
Since becoming the American Public Media program's host, Thile has, each week, written one new (often topical) "Song of the Week" that gets its debut performance on that Saturday's live broadcast - with Thile, the house band, and some of his guest musicians. The album is a collection of songs originally written for performance on A Prairie Home Companion. New York - Chris Thile's new album, Thanks for Listening, will be released on Nonesuch Records December 8, 2017.
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