Currency of another coin.
There’s a new Nashville group on the scene and it could possibly be called a supergroup as it features friends Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billet. And they have “conjured sonic magic in an ancient abbey off the English coast” for the self titled album which will be released by Full Time Hobby on 24th February 2025.
“It was Jordan Lehning that decided to put it together,” says songwriter and pedal steel wizard Spencer Cullum, who performs alongside the likes of country superstar Miranda Lambert and ambient jazz auteur Rich Ruth, as well as having his own ‘Coin Collection’. “I told Jordan about this studio in a really desolate area on the Isle of Wight that a friend of mine runs called Chale Abbey. It’s a beautiful old building from 1160 where monks used to live. The studio owners completely renovated it. Jordan had this idea – the four songwriters would have three songs and we’d work together to make a record of it”.
With the addition of multi-instrumentalists Eli Beaird, Juan Solorzano and Lehning’s brother Jason behind the board, the group gathered in the studios for a very un-Nashville experience: no charts, no headphones, no isolation. No preconceptions, no expectations, just friends enjoying one another’s talents, responding with a sense of joy. No obligations to corporate radio or shareholder value, no amp modelling and quantization – just musicians making music.
“Destination records are my favourite records to make,” says multi-instrumentalist Jordan Lehning, whose collaborators include Rodney Crowell and Orville Peck. “You feel like you’re the only person on planet Earth making a record when you’re out in the middle of nowhere doing it. In Nashville you’ll go to lunch and run into 15 other people that are also making a record. Going out to the middle of nowhere, where the coast is a seven minute walk, and in the wintertime, it’s cold and foggy and beautiful… there’s really nothing like it”.
You can pre-order the album here and watch the video for single ‘Odd Energy’ below.
