Nine time Grammy winner Dan Auerbach will release Waiting On A Song, his second solo album, on June 2 via his new label, Easy Eye Sound. The album is Auerbach’s much anticipated follow-up to 2009’s Keep It Hid and is a love letter to Nashville. As such, he recruited some of Nashville’s most respected players to write and record his latest, including John Prine, Duane Eddy, Jerry Douglas, Pat McLaughlin and Bobby Wood & Gene Chrisman of the Memphis Boys.
Check out the video for Waiting On A Song’s first single, Shine On Me, below.
Auerbach said about working with his musical heroes: “Living in Nashville has changed the way I think about music and the way that I record it. I didn’t have all of these resources before. I am working with some of the greatest musicians that ever lived.”
Auerbach wrote seven songs with Prine, one of which is the title track of the album. Mark Knopfler’s immediately identifiable guitar elevates Shine On Me into an anthem. Iconic guitarist Eddy is featured on Livin’ In Sin and the cinematic King of a One Horse Town.
Waiting On A Song is the debut release of the recently launched Easy Eye Sound, Dan Auerbach’s new record label which will feature soon-to-be-announced releases from other artists and is distributed by Auerbach’s longtime label Nonesuch Records. The new label is built equally around Auerbach’s Easy Eye Studio in Nashville, where The Black Keys recorded their last two albums, as well as the collection of famous session musicians that have come to call the studio home.
Auerbach says, “Sometimes I feel I created my own Field of Dreams. I built the studio because I knew something was going to happen. I built it to accommodate live musicians playing, and then all of a sudden the best musicians in Nashville show up, and it’s happening.”
