Butch Walker on new album American Love Story: 'I wanted to almost blindside people'
American Love Storydue out May 8. They are repeated by various voices with touches of both exasperation and hope, which feels just right for the Georgia native’s expansive concept album. Or, as he says with a laugh, “the known fashionable term: rock opera.”last week and the ambling southern soul ballad is one of several streaks of sunshine in the loosely told tale of a young man named "Bo," raised to be bigoted, fearful, and homophobic.
It is a story of boys and men, fathers and sons, inherited hate, the transformative nature of love, and the courage it takes to step out of the comfort zone. It also encompasses everything from intimate piano ballads to uptempo electronic dance music to muscular guitar rock to the musician's longtime specialty, hooky pop. EW recently chatted with Walker about, which is a love letter to family, the idea of healing the fissures within them, and the power of music.
I was definitely writing and producing other people's stuff and that's something that I try not to ever turn away if it's good work, or I need to put food on my family's table. That's all stuff that pays the bills. But at the same time, [my own] writing and touring is a thing too. And then when I finished it I was like — and pardon me for speaking in third person — "Maybe this is not a BW record.
Sometimes concept albums can be dark, lugubrious affairs but this sounds very much in the spirit of previous albums. In fact, some of the tunes with the most potentially incendiary lyrics are the catchiest. You could literally, if you wanted to, compare three of the characters in the story to my dad, myself, and my son. But by no means do they reflect everything that happened between my father and myself, and then now my son. It's just a story that is everything I saw growing up, but did include some of my family's behavior. And concerns for your future, for your kids.
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