The Pretenders are back with a brand new album and teamed up with a fellow Akron musician to work on the record. The Pretenders have just announced a new album entitled Alone, their first since 2008’s Break Up The Concrete. Besides Chrissie Hynde, the album features bassist Dave Roe, pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl, guitarist Kenny Vaughan, keyboardist Leon Michels, and drummer Richard Swift, and it was produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. who helmed the sessions from his Easy Eye Studio in Nashville. According to the press release announcing the LP, Hynde ended up tracking all the vocals for the album in a single 48-hour span.That’s the artwork above, and it’ll be out 10/21 ia BMG. The band also recently announced a North American support tour with Stevie Nicks
Due in stores October. 21st, Alone is available to fans who purchase their copies early will receive a free download of “Holy Commotion!” now. The track, which you can hear above, may come as a surprise to fans who expected Auerbach’s influence to amp up the Pretenders’ blues quotient; instead, it presents an altogether poppier side of Hynde’s sound, with lyrics describing an urge to “see the light” and adding, “I just want, I want, I want to dance all night/ So be my baby.”
Chrissie Hynde and company recruited Dan Auerbach to produce The Pretenders latest record Alone. The album isn’t due out until October 21st,
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