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Wallflowers Fourth Album Due In September, Pearl Jam's McCready Guests
06/12/2002 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong
(6/12/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- The Wallflowers have settled on a name for their fourth album--Red Letter Days--and a release date, September 24.
The Los Angeles band recorded the 12-song effort this year with the help of Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, who handled some guitar parts following the departure of the Wallflowers' Michael Ward, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Meanwhile, Toby Miller, who preceded Ward as the group's founding guitarist, returned to team up with Bill Appleberry as the album's producers. Miller left the group in 1996, before it made its breakout second album, Bringing Down The Horse.
The complete track listing for Red Letter Days is: "When You're On Top," "How Good It Can Get," "Closer To You," "Everybody Out Of The Water," "Three Ways," "Too Late To Quit," "If You Never Got Sick," "Health And Happiness," "See You When I Get There," "Feels Like Summer Again," "Everything I Need," and "Here In Pleasantville."
A yet-to-be announced single is anticipated in late July or early August.
Red Letter Days follows the 2000 release, Breach, which was a commercial disappointment after the four-times-platinum Bringing Down The Horse. While a rebound into commercial success is undoubtedly a goal for the Wallflowers on their new album, simple longevity is also an ongoing concern.
Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan told LAUNCH in 2000 that one of the original goals of the group was to "stay consistent and not disappear."That's what you want is longevity and since music is something that can affect people, it's nice to do it for a lot of people," he said. "You can always do it for a small number of people and that's always great too. But now the group has a chance to kind of play for a lot of people for a long time, more than record sales and more than visibility, that's the main thing that really matters, is just being able to keep at it."
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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