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Golden Smog in "Fine" form on new album
02/23/2006 7:44 PM, Reuters
Wes Orshoski
The first release in eight years
from Golden Smog, the alternative supergroup featuring Wilco's
Jeff Tweedy, Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy, Big Star's Jody Stephens
and the Jayhawks' Gary Louris, will arrive in stores this
summer.
Lost Highway has set July 18 as the release date for
"Another Fine Day." Marc Perlman and Kraig Johnson round out
the band's lineup.
Again sporting separate songwriting contributions from
Tweedy, Louris, Perlman, Murphy and Johnson, the band's fourth
album is composed of 14 originals and a cover of "Strangers" by
the Kinks' Dave Davies, sung by Louris and Tweedy.
The first Golden Smog album to follow Wilco's ascension to
"it"-band status and reports of a Jayhawks breakup, "Another
Fine Day" was recorded last year in two sessions, the first
sans Tweedy and Stephens in the south of Spain, the second with
the full band in Minneapolis.
"Another Fine Day" began to take shape when bassist Perlman
was asked to write a song for a Guy Ritchie-directed Corvette
commercial. While the song was never used in the ad, the core
band of Perlman, Louris, Murphy and Johnson got together and
began writing the first half of the record. "It was four guys
mumbling into a microphone for a few sessions and going, 'Oh,
this could be a song,"' says Louris.
Debuting with a covers EP in 1992, the occasional band has
at different points also featured Soul Asylum frontman Dave
Pirner, ex-Replacements drummer Chris Mars, Noah Levy of the
Honeydogs and violinist Jessy Greene of the Geraldine Fibbers.
Although Golden Smog had been virtually dormant since wrapping
a tour behind 1998's "Weird Tales," last year Louris, Perlman,
Murphy and Johnson played a handful of Golden Smog dates sans
Tweedy.
Reuters/Billboard
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