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Grey Delisle - The Grey Album [CD]

Grey Delisle - The Grey Album [CD]

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Grey DeLisle turns out songs the way Stephen King turns out novels - The way Ryan Adams creates covers - The way Krispy Kreme delivers donuts - Sweet and satisfying, and staggering in sheer volume - "Prolific" doesn't even begin to cut it.

So you might be shocked to learn that DeLisle once endured a long songwriting dry spell while concentrating on her career as one of Hollywood's top voice actors (The Simpsons, Scooby- Doo, SpongeBob) and mom of three children. It took the early months of the pandemic to bring the spark back, and Grey started writing feverishly. The songs were coming so fast that she decided to start

recording them with her longtime creative partner Murry Hammond of Old 97's, with whom she has collaborated for over two decades on countless musical projects (and one human being, their son, the wunderkind visual artist Tex Hammond. Using Hammond's full complement of vintage recording equipment, the pair took advantage of being in the same COVID "pod" (remember those?) to rack up

the songs, which would then be played for producer Marvin Etzioni via phone.

Etzioni has been DeLisle's longtime creative partner since producing her first solo record, The Small Time in 1999, and introduced her to some of the musicians the pair still work with to this day. The artists on The Grey Album are like a Who's Who of Americana and roots rock: strings by Tammy Rogers (Emmylou Harris, Neil Diamond, Patty Loveless), horns by David Ralicke (Lucinda Williams, Beck, Morrissey, John Cale), pedal steel by Greg Leisz (ummm...every major American artist who has ever used pedal steel?). And the best part is, they all separately contributed their parts in the coolest game of relay ever, after the original analog recordings were digitally mastered by renowned sound engineer Todd Burke (Ben Harper, Albert Hammond Jr., Belle and Sebastian). Grey would send the tracks off to Rogers, who laid down the heavenly strings and passed it on to Leisz for the pedal steel magic, then on to Ralicke for horns.

Along the way, DeLisle kept on writing more and more songs, and meeting more and more artists with whom she just had to collaborate. At a dinner party she happened to be seated next to the Runaways' Cherie Currie, which had to be a sign because she had just written '40-Something Runaway' that morning! Would Currie like to sing on it? She sure would! This is the kind of serendipity that seems to follow Grey DeLisle everywhere she goes. Stephen McCarthy (Long Ryders, Jayhawks) came on board for 'Didn't We Try', and Etzioni lent his song 'Convince Me' originally written for Roy Orbison before his sudden death in 1988.

DeLisle took all of these threads over the course of five years to finally bring together the tapestry of

The Grey Album. The record is imbued with all of the Americana artistry of the many hands that brought it to life, woven in the inimitable style of Grey DeLisle.

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Grey DeLisle turns out songs the way Stephen King turns out novels - The way Ryan Adams creates covers - The way Krispy Kreme delivers donuts - Sweet and satisfying, and staggering in sheer volume - "Prolific" doesn't even begin to cut it.

So you might be shocked to learn that DeLisle once endured a long songwriting dry spell while concentrating on her career as one of Hollywood's top voice actors (The Simpsons, Scooby- Doo, SpongeBob) and mom of three children. It took the early months of the pandemic to bring the spark back, and Grey started writing feverishly. The songs were coming so fast that she decided to start

recording them with her longtime creative partner Murry Hammond of Old 97's, with whom she has collaborated for over two decades on countless musical projects (and one human being, their son, the wunderkind visual artist Tex Hammond. Using Hammond's full complement of vintage recording equipment, the pair took advantage of being in the same COVID "pod" (remember those?) to rack up

the songs, which would then be played for producer Marvin Etzioni via phone.

Etzioni has been DeLisle's longtime creative partner since producing her first solo record, The Small Time in 1999, and introduced her to some of the musicians the pair still work with to this day. The artists on The Grey Album are like a Who's Who of Americana and roots rock: strings by Tammy Rogers (Emmylou Harris, Neil Diamond, Patty Loveless), horns by David Ralicke (Lucinda Williams, Beck, Morrissey, John Cale), pedal steel by Greg Leisz (ummm...every major American artist who has ever used pedal steel?). And the best part is, they all separately contributed their parts in the coolest game of relay ever, after the original analog recordings were digitally mastered by renowned sound engineer Todd Burke (Ben Harper, Albert Hammond Jr., Belle and Sebastian). Grey would send the tracks off to Rogers, who laid down the heavenly strings and passed it on to Leisz for the pedal steel magic, then on to Ralicke for horns.

Along the way, DeLisle kept on writing more and more songs, and meeting more and more artists with whom she just had to collaborate. At a dinner party she happened to be seated next to the Runaways' Cherie Currie, which had to be a sign because she had just written '40-Something Runaway' that morning! Would Currie like to sing on it? She sure would! This is the kind of serendipity that seems to follow Grey DeLisle everywhere she goes. Stephen McCarthy (Long Ryders, Jayhawks) came on board for 'Didn't We Try', and Etzioni lent his song 'Convince Me' originally written for Roy Orbison before his sudden death in 1988.

DeLisle took all of these threads over the course of five years to finally bring together the tapestry of

The Grey Album. The record is imbued with all of the Americana artistry of the many hands that brought it to life, woven in the inimitable style of Grey DeLisle.

Track Listing

Hello I'm Lonesome

Who To Love

A Coastal Town

Reach The Sky

Mi Vida

Tomorrow (Without You)

Sister Shook

Daddy Can You Fix a Broken Heart

Forty Something Runaway

A Promise I Can't Keep

Didn't We Try

Convince Me

I'm a Wreck

Don't Let Go Of My Hand

I Can't Be Kind

My Darling Vivian

The Last Time

House On Fire

Take Me Dancing Again

Red Dress

Details
  • Genre: Country
  • Product Type: AUDIO CD
  • Barcode: 8713762250126
  • Release Date: June 13, 2025
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