Jake Clemons (saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and nephew of the late great Clarence Clemons) announces his new album release “Fear & Love” . Jake, comments about the album, It’s a concept record. It’s a story that encompasses the last few years of my life. It starts off with the weight of tragedy and heartbreak and trauma and finds itself recovering from that and exploring a new fearless ability to live. I came to the end of a long relationship several years ago and it was really difficult. I didn’t understand how much the fears I inherited affected the way I was living my life and the way I approached relationships and the way I approached love. Reconciling and recovering from those things was a really big thing for me over the past few years. So this is a very personal record.
“Fear & Love” was produced by Jake Clemons and Ryan Swinehart (Last Bison) and engineered by L Stu Young (Prince) and Geoff Sanoff (Darlene Love, Bruce Springsteen.). The album was recorded at A Room With No VU –Empire Studios in Belleville Ontario, Steve Van Zandt’s Renegade Studio in New York City, Sick Island Studios, Nashville and mixed at House of Blues Studio “D” in Nashville. Fear & Love features the musician offering a bewitching hint of how much he has to say as an artist and how eloquently he says it. Yeah, it’s a Side One–Side Two record. Side One is dealing with heartbreak. It’s dealing with the warning signs of a bad relationship and the struggle of having to figure out why the relationship is bad and do you want to live that life or not, then getting to the other side of it. And then it goes to Side Two, which is the freedom of being able to love fearlessly. I feel like it’s getting outside after a long winter, and it’s spring and the sun is on your skin again and it feels exciting. The record is a journey.
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