Jon Snodgrass and Frank Turner have announced a sequel to their 2010 collaborative album Buddies. The new album, aptly titled Buddies II: Still Buddies, finds the two socially distanced, but still keeping the same theme: an album fleshed out and recorded over one day. They’ve announced the album by releasing the first single/video “Bad Times Good Vibes.”
Turner says:
Lockdown has been such a blow to the music industry, and such a drag that we were all looking for things to do. Jon and I have been buddies a long time, and I noticed the 10-year anniversary of our collaborative album was coming up. Technology is such that we were able to reprise the writing method remotely, and indeed it turns out we’ve got a lot better at it in the intervening decade. I’m really, really proud of the record.”
While Snodgrass adds:
BUDDIES II was somehow even more fun to make. It even sounds better too! Frank mixed it & we enlisted Todd Beene & Stephen Egerton. So yeah, 2 more buddies. It’s twice as good, imo. I can’t wait until 2030! It’s gonna be three times better & we’re gonna do it at sea!!
That album is due out on 13 Nov 2020 via Xtra Mile Recordings. You can check out the new song below, and head here to pre-order that release.
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