From a column in the Feb. 16 issue:
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LOST AND FOUND: David Baerwald, who hasn�t released an album since 1993�s Triage (A&M), has signed a deal with Lost Highway Records. The project is to be released this summer.
Simply put, Baerwald says he stopped making albums because he thought there weren�t any labels that supported the kind of �insurgent American music� that he was making. That is, until he met Lost Highway head Luke Lewis.
�From the first time I met Luke, I knew he cared about this kind of music,� Baerwald says. �I think the people at Lost Highway are able to communicate their passion, and they understand the practicalities and the impracticalities.�
Following Triage, Baerwald began concentrating on film music, including writing the lushly romantic Golden Globe-nominated �Come What May,� which was featured in Moulin Rouge. For those familiar with Baerwald�s often paranoid, edgy tunes, the unabashedly sweet love song was about as far away lyrically from Baerwald�s previous work as imaginable. �I was strictly a gun for hire,� says Baerwald, who admits he likes the tune but found it �very difficult� to write a straight-ahead love song. �Obviously, people have felt those feelings in the past. The fact that I am not one of them is not relevant,� he says with a laugh.
Not surprisingly, �Come What May� will not be on his new album. But just as the tales of conspiracy and darkness on Triage ended on an upnote, the new project has a silver lining as well. Informed by a number of tragic events, including the deaths of several of Baerwald�s loved ones, the singer�s single-engine plane crash (from which he walked away), and a beating that landed him in the hospital, the new project is about how �horrible stuff can, does, and will happen, but we can take it. These are songs about embattled optimism.�
Baerwald, who relocated to Austin from Los Angeles last year� because he felt it was a better place to raise his young son�is also writing a book, a sordid tale whose protagonist shares the same name as Baerwald, but is �despicable. The book is a really hostile biography of this fictional character who has my name and shares some of my characteristics.�
However, Baerwald confesses, it�s not his first novel. That came years ago when, at 22, he wrote a bodice ripper for $850 called Bridge of Passion while he was also working for a term-paper-forgery business. Who says he�s not a romantic at heart?
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From a column in the Feb. 16 issue:
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LOST AND FOUND: David Baerwald, who hasn�t released an album since 1993�s Triage (A&M), has signed a deal with Lost Highway Records. The project is to be released this summer.
Simply put, Baerwald says he stopped making albums because he thought there weren�t any labels that supported the kind of �insurgent American music� that he was making. That is, until he met Lost Highway head Luke Lewis.
�From the first time I met Luke, I knew he cared about this kind of music,� Baerwald says. �I think the people at Lost Highway are able to communicate their passion, and they understand the practicalities and the impracticalities.�
Following Triage, Baerwald began concentrating on film music, including writing the lushly romantic Golden Globe-nominated �Come What May,� which was featured in Moulin Rouge. For those familiar with Baerwald�s often paranoid, edgy tunes, the unabashedly sweet love song was about as far away lyrically from Baerwald�s previous work as imaginable. �I was strictly a gun for hire,� says Baerwald, who admits he likes the tune but found it �very difficult� to write a straight-ahead love song. �Obviously, people have felt those feelings in the past. The fact that I am not one of them is not relevant,� he says with a laugh.
Not surprisingly, �Come What May� will not be on his new album. But just as the tales of conspiracy and darkness on Triage ended on an upnote, the new project has a silver lining as well. Informed by a number of tragic events, including the deaths of several of Baerwald�s loved ones, the singer�s single-engine plane crash (from which he walked away), and a beating that landed him in the hospital, the new project is about how �horrible stuff can, does, and will happen, but we can take it. These are songs about embattled optimism.�
Baerwald, who relocated to Austin from Los Angeles last year� because he felt it was a better place to raise his young son�is also writing a book, a sordid tale whose protagonist shares the same name as Baerwald, but is �despicable. The book is a really hostile biography of this fictional character who has my name and shares some of my characteristics.�
However, Baerwald confesses, it�s not his first novel. That came years ago when, at 22, he wrote a bodice ripper for $850 called Bridge of Passion while he was also working for a term-paper-forgery business. Who says he�s not a romantic at heart?
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LOST AND FOUND: David Baerwald, who hasn�t released an album since 1993�s Triage (A&M), has signed a deal with Lost Highway Records. The project is to be released this summer.
Simply put, Baerwald says he stopped making albums because he thought there weren�t any labels that supported the kind of �insurgent American music� that he was making. That is, until he met Lost Highway head Luke Lewis.
�From the first time I met Luke, I knew he cared about this kind of music,� Baerwald says. �I think the people at Lost Highway are able to communicate their passion, and they understand the practicalities and the impracticalities.�
Following Triage, Baerwald began concentrating on film music, including writing the lushly romantic Golden Globe-nominated �Come What May,� which was featured in Moulin Rouge. For those familiar with Baerwald�s often paranoid, edgy tunes, the unabashedly sweet love song was about as far away lyrically from Baerwald�s previous work as imaginable. �I was strictly a gun for hire,� says Baerwald, who admits he likes the tune but found it �very difficult� to write a straight-ahead love song. �Obviously, people have felt those feelings in the past. The fact that I am not one of them is not relevant,� he says with a laugh.
Not surprisingly, �Come What May� will not be on his new album. But just as the tales of conspiracy and darkness on Triage ended on an upnote, the new project has a silver lining as well. Informed by a number of tragic events, including the deaths of several of Baerwald�s loved ones, the singer�s single-engine plane crash (from which he walked away), and a beating that landed him in the hospital, the new project is about how �horrible stuff can, does, and will happen, but we can take it. These are songs about embattled optimism.�
Baerwald, who relocated to Austin from Los Angeles last year� because he felt it was a better place to raise his young son�is also writing a book, a sordid tale whose protagonist shares the same name as Baerwald, but is �despicable. The book is a really hostile biography of this fictional character who has my name and shares some of my characteristics.�
However, Baerwald confesses, it�s not his first novel. That came years ago when, at 22, he wrote a bodice ripper for $850 called Bridge of Passion while he was also working for a term-paper-forgery business. Who says he�s not a romantic at heart?
