Country music has always been in Jaret Ray Reddick's blood. The Bowling For Soup frontman has portraits of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings tattooed on his bicep, so it's no surprise that his solo break came in the form of country and western.
"It was something I wanted to do forever," says Reddick, who recently released his first country solo album,, via Brando Records."I grew up in a house where music was always playing, and most of the time that music was country."
The punk rocker is currently on the road with Bowling For Soup on a co-headlining tour with Less Than Jake. His solo effort,, comprises 12 songs, mostly written by Reddick and The Nixons' Zac Maloy, a longtime friend of Reddick, who also produced the album. "We wrote all of the songs in about three weeks over text message, just sending each other lyrics and little musical ideas here and there in voice recordings," he says."We just had this big Google folder where we organized everything, and then the next thing you know, we had an album."
Reddick's debut album features appearances by Uncle Kracker, Frank Turner, Cody Canada and even Stephen Egerton of Descendants, whom Reddick credits for getting him into punk rock."This rockabilly song, 'Natalie,' that we did, I just thought, man, who better to play than the guitar player from my favorite band in the world?" Reddick says."It's a little bit of a departure on the record, but we had a lot of fun doing it.
Reddick says once Bowling For Soup wraps up its remaining tour dates this fall, he'll focus on his solo act until the punk rockers make their next move.
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