Premiere: jesse_malin shares Room13 video from Lucinda Williams-produced album
Jesse Malin considers his video for the new track "Room 13," premiering exclusively below from his upcoming Lucinda Williams-produced album Midnight Cowboy Directed by Dito Montiel, a friend from the punk rock scene turned filmmaker , the clip also nods to Malin's habit of booking himself into hotels to do some songwriting in isolation.
"It was just a great time to make a video in there with and his eye," Malin tells Billboard. "Hotels are a place I sometimes go to write in to get that blank canvas feeling. It's just this empty space. We're in such a world with distractions, your phone and computer and all the social media.
, which is due out Aug. 30. The two have been friends for years, since Malin's days in D Generation, and while having dinner in Los Angeles during the summer of 2017 , they began talking about having her produce Malin's next project. "Then Tom Petty's happened, and then what happened in Las Vegas , and there was a very heavy emotional kind of pause for everybody," Malin recalls. He and Williams finally got together, with engineer David Bianco, the next February and began working on songs, knocking out "a handful" and continuing to write throughout 2018, negotiating their two schedules as they crafted the 15-track album.
"We all have people we look to, like Keith Richards -- of all the people, this guy keeps going," Malin says with a chuckle. "I sang at Shane MacGowan's 60th birthday party thinking 'Oh, this guy's not going to make it,' and he's still here singing -- and drinking. And from the hardcore scene...New York was a pretty tough place. A lot of us came from dysfunctional families that didn't give you the tools to deal with pain and stuff.
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