Jonny Fritz released his video for "Stadium Inn" today via American Songwriter. The song appears on his new LP Sweet Creep, produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket, is out now via ATO Records.
Fritz says of the video: "I've always loved the Stadium Inn. Ever since I heard that it was Roger Miller's King of The Road Inn, way back in the day. It's a residents only hotel --- which, resident only hotels always blow my mind. Where the hell do its residents find the money to pay for a hotel for weeks or even months on end?! It CANNOT be any cheaper than $300 a week/$1200 a month! That's a lot of money to live in squalor --- and resident only hotels are always filled with nasty characters (it takes one to know one). Being the people watcher that I am, I've always been drawn to train wrecks, human or otherwise, and the Stadium Inn is nothing short of a train wreck. As Nashville started to change, traffic on the freeway slowed down, leaving you with time to have a look around. I always looked forward to creeping by the Stadium Inn during rush hour. You could see right into these peoples' rooms because they hardly ever drew the blinds and I don't think they cared or knew that people could see them. It really inspired me and I liked to think of the place as a live movie theatre with 15 movies playing at once. That's what inspired the song at least."
Sweet Creep marks the return of a renewed lyricism in country music, a recurring theme in Fritz's previous album Dad Country. Recorded in James' makeshift hilltop studio in Montecito Heights, the album reverberates with the feeling of sunny vistas. Jonny gathered Nashville's Joshua Hedley and Dawes' Taylor and Griffin
Goldsmith and stripped things down to the essentials. Recorded in just three days, the fresh air, freedom from studio pressures, and strong cups of tea all mix into the music.
A
Montana native, Jonny was raised in
Virginia and has passed weeks in nearly every city in the United States and overseas. He is a torchbearer, brimming with personality in the celebrated country music tradition. Fans look to country musicians such as John Hartford, Roger Miller, and
Billy Joe Shaver for more than just music. They look for a life, for outrageous legend, for a showmanship on and off stage that Jonny Fritz will never fail to deliver. He might not have shot anybody or spent any considerable time in prison, but on Sweet Creep he reminds himself and his fans that sometimes great lives can also be pretty good ones.
Fritz has been playing songs from the new album on tour with Jamestown Revival. Check out the dates below.
Tour Dates w/ Jamestown Revival
11/1 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In
11/3 - Dallas, TX - Kessler Theater
11/4 - Austin, TX - Emo's
11/5 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
11/10 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
Purchase the album
Official store: http://smarturl.it/SweetCreep
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/xpvr9f
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/nkr0m2
Tracklisting
1. Are You Thirsty
2. Happy In Hindsight
3. Forever Whatever
4. Humidifier
5. Stone Cold Daddy O
6. I love Leaving
7. Cries After Making Love
8. Fifteen
Passenger Van
9. Stadium Inn
10. Chilidog Morning
11. Chihuahua Rescue
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