Alex and His Meal ticket has released a brand new song for purchase on Bandcamp. The title is “Road Sweet Road,” and if it sounds familiar, it’s either because you’ve caught the band live over the past year or you watched them play the song on our Stripped Down Sessions. Though as frontman Alex Higgins explains, the song as it is now is quite different than it was at its inception:
“The song was written a couple years back as an acoustic song by me” Higgins explains. “It stemmed from someone telling me to ‘drive home safe.’ For some reason, that expression got some gears turning in my head and I wrote the song in like 10 minutes. Over the years it’s changed a couple times and when I started working with Dave Johngrass he told us to rework it and see what we could come up with, it sounds almost nothing like what it sounded like when I wrote it other than the lyrics being the same.”
“Road Sweet Road” was recorded, mixed and produced at Naked City Audio by Dave Johngrass, mastered by Paul Miner (Last Call, Curl Up and Die, New Found Glory) and features artwork by Joe Corral. Naked City is already a home away from home of sorts for Higgins, who co-produced his band’s latest single.
“We recorded it at Naked City Audio (where I work out of when I record bands, owned by John Kiehlbauch) with Dave who was my professor in college at IADT where I went to school for audio engineering” explains Higgins. “We became buddies when I worked with him a couple times at BBB after I graduated. I asked him if he was interested in producing a song for us and he said yes as long as money wasn’t involved, (he wanted to have it be a fun experience not be pressured by time constraints.) Since Dave’s a really busy dude we could only get in the studio with him like once or twice a month, and we did a lot of experimenting in the studio so it took like 5 months to finish the song. Overall I’m proud of it, but by the end of it I heard the song so many times it’s kind of old to me now, I’m just excited it’s done and we can record new stuff.”
Fans of the band will get plenty of chances to see them live in the coming months. They’ll be sharing the stage with Brooklyn punk band Warn the Duke (which features members of River City Rebels and Big D and the Kids Table) and fellow locals Jerk July 23 at Beauty Bar. More details for that show can be found on Facebook.
If you can’t make that show (or you’re thirsty for more) they’ll be at Backstage Bar on Sept. 8 with Wayne Hancock and again Oct. 18 with The Yawpers.
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