When he's not touring and recording with Foo Fighters, Chris Shiflett is busy making country-tinged solo albums.
sat at his Los Angeles-area home wondering what to do. The Foo Fighters guitarist was gearing up for the band to release and tour behind its 10th studio album,, but the pandemic changed that. At home, Shiflett put his energy into his non-Foos endeavors, including recording episodes of hisWhen he wasn’t working on that project or helping his kids get situated with Zoom school, Shiflett, who previously released solo albums in 2017 and 2019, got busy with new material in his home studio.
Shiflett realizes that releasing a solo album, even as an artist who has experienced as much success as he has, doesn’t have the pull it once had. That’s why he’d hoped to release the songs individually rather than as a single body of work, but his label, Blue Elán, stepped in and persuaded him to do so. “I think putting out songs is great and playing shows is great,” he says. “But when you put out the record, there’s nothing left to talk about. It’s a bit of a dead art form.
He is aware that his fanbase is comprised of Foos fans and that he has to adjust his expectations of what an audience will be on any given night. “When I was in No Use for a Name, the barometer for a good show and a good crowd was how hard the pit got going,” he says. “Then when I joined Foo Fighters, it was a totally different dynamic musically, and you have to recalibrate for that.”
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