![]() ![]() 14, with a pair of special orchestral shows on Oct. Weller will be presenting True Meanings, which comes out Sept. I think you learn to see how very fleeting this physical life is, so enjoy it as much as you can.” It’s reflective, ’cause you realize how quickly time goes, and the clock’s ticking. “Whatever ups and downs, there’s always some beautiful moments in life. “It’s that life can be beautiful,” he explains. It can be other people as well.”īetween the three them, Weller feels that True Meanings delivers a particular message. The album is called True Meanings, but I didn’t feel it had to be just my true meanings. There was enough I wanted to say lyrically, but I found I was repeating myself sometimes, so Erland and Conor are just people I really admire as lyricists and songwriters. But that’s a long time ago, and I don’t feel like that now. I’ve been too uptight and selfish, or possessive in the past. “I just wanted to get some different perspectives, really. ![]() More surprising is that four of the 14 tracks feature lyrics by others - including “White Horses,” one of three by Erland & the Carnival’s Erland Cooper. ![]() In addition to the strings, True Meanings features guest appearances by Rod Argent, Noel Gallagher, Little Barrie, Lucy Rose and British folk icons Danny Thompson and Martin Carthy. It’s kind of been thought about off and on since that time, and this is the result of all that.” “Gradually there were more and more of them, so I just built up these ideas along the way. “It wouldn’t have fit on any of the albums I’ve worked on subsequently, and there were other songs that were the same way,” he explains. The track “Gravity,” for instance, dates back about five years ago. Weller, who co-produced True Meanings mostly with Conor O’Brien, had actually been stockpiling songs for an acoustic album. I prefer electric guitar, but that was the way I wrote since way back at the beginning.” Way back in the Jam days I’d write at home on acoustic because it’s quieter and I try not to wake everyone up. “I used to live in flats, and you can’t make too much noise so you did whatever worked. “All my songs, or most of them, were written on acoustic guitar,” Weller says. Ironically, acoustic guitar has long been part of Weller’s writing process even if the eventual songs wound up making considerably more noise.
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