Description
Once again the Dave Cobb-Lukas Nelson partnership reigns supreme. A Few Stars Apart – produced by Cobb – is a testament to finding a human connection, between close family and friends, as well as with oneself. The album was inspired by the stillness Nelson found while riding out the beginning of the pandemic with his family in Texas and was recorded with the full band live on eight-track tape over three weeks at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A. Across the record’s eleven new songs, Nelson reveals what it means to come home again, to be still, and to find community—and yourself. The record is a compelling and focussed project that creates a seamless sonic landscape, uncovering the meaning of ‘home.’ Sonically, the record creates a lush sonic landscape that is varied and moving – meandering from one track to the next.
“I realized that when this thing started, I needed to go on a little bit of a retreat. I started meditating twice a day. I went on a certain fast, a very, very strict diet. I made sure to do 100 pushups every day. I learned a Chopin piece on piano. Every day when I woke up, after I meditated, I would spend at least an hour on that,” Nelson says. Nelson wrote songs too. Twenty-five of them were “good ones,” he says. In the studio they pared down those 25 “good ones” into a tight, final 11. The finished product is Nelson’s most compact, streamlined, and focused album yet. While his fast and fluid guitar playing rears its head, especially on the Tom Petty jangle of “Wildest Dreams,” A Few Stars Apart is, by design, a songwriter’s record.
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