Tara Jane O’Neil announces self-titled album and spring tour, premieres video for new track “Blow,” is probably already on to the next thing…
Boy, it must be tiring being a renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist like the legendary Tara Jane O’Neil. It’s like: even when you’re just “taking it easy,” hanging out with your friends, and spontaneously making warm, laid-back, bucolic jams — it turns out you’re actually hard-at-work playing guitar, bass, keyboards, and percussion on your friggin’ 800th poised, purposeful, rustically understated solo album…At least, that seems to be what happened when TJO was invited out to Wilco’s Loft in Chicago by her pal Mark Greenberg to record “mostly live” with an ad hoc band comprised of James Elkington, Gerald Dowd, Nick Macri, and Greenberg himself before returning home to L.A. to polish things off in her home studio with Devin Hoff, Wilder Zoby, Walt McClements and string supervisor Jim James.
But, well…no rest for the obsessed, I guess. And besides: the results of those seemingly innocuous, loose, casual jam sessions — a poised and thoughtful new self-titled album — are coming out April 21 on the Gnomonsong label, and the world-at-large will soon be a cooler and more interesting place because of it, right?
Meanwhile, the first small…