Long Island’s Andrew Weiss and Friends have found a way to keep the music flowing – songwriter Andrew Weiss has developed an interesting technique – when an album is about to be released, he starts on the next one. He explains “I’m always writing, so there’s always songs. As far as recording them, I guess you could say I’m addicted.” It’s an approach that came to the fore for the new release by the band “The Last of the Outdoor Kids.” It seems that the latest album’s journey started off with a songwriting collaboration between Weiss and guitarist Sam Popkin called “Put That In Your Pipe (And Smoke It)”. Weiss remembers, “It was one of those songs Sam had been kicking around for years, but he only had the chords and the overall feel. He asked if I had any ideas for a melody and lyrics, and there it was. That really opened the floodgates.”
And so that’s the song we’re featuring today – the first song written for the album and the album’s last single before its release on the 26th of September. It’s true that the Power Pop number advocates getting high – but the reason? Well, it’s that age old balance between a deep and enduring love and that same person also being unable to stop talkin’. Yeah, yeah, we had a brief flash of Chas and Dave too – but really, nothing like that at all. Trust us. What you will find on “The Last of the Outdoor Kids” is a selection of what Weiss calls “Power Pop-icana” which produces songs in a range of styles that might recall Springsteen, maybe the Stones or a growly, surly Elvis Costello. The album’s title “The Last of the Outdoor Kids” is a phrase Weiss read in a magazine article that stuck with him. Weiss reflects, “Everyone in the band is roughly a similar age, and therefore, part of the same generation. Being born in the early 90s, we really are the last generation that did not grow up with smartphones and the internet at our fingertips from day one. The phrase felt like a genuine way to group the songs on the album together.”
