{"id":31387,"date":"2025-02-05T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-benmont-tench-releasing-new-solo-album-the-melancholy-season\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:02:30","slug":"tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-benmont-tench-releasing-new-solo-album-the-melancholy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-benmont-tench-releasing-new-solo-album-the-melancholy-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers\u2019 Benmont Tench releasing new solo album, ‘The Melancholy Season’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers<\/strong> keyboardist Benmont Tench<\/strong> will release his second solo album, The Melancholy Season<\/em>, on March 7 and\u00a0has shared the first preview of the record with the release of the title track<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a post on his website<\/strong><\/a>, Tench reveals that\u00a0the song\u00a0was inspired by a poem he wrote while looking at the constellation Orion.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the house where I lived for many years, in the hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley, Orion was only visible in the fall and winter,” Tench writes. “I associated the constellation with that time: ‘Oh, there’s my friend.’ But that season, when it starts getting cold in California, has always been a bit melancholy to me.”<\/p>\n

He adds that the tune is “about a guy looking across the backyard at his wife by the pool. She’s about to kick off her shoes. It’s cold, the pool is heated and the steam is rising off the water. The idea was the alienation between these two people.”<\/p>\n

This is Tench\u2019s first solo\u00a0release since his\u00a0debut solo album, You Should Be So Lucky<\/em>,\u00a0came out\u00a0in 2014.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Melancholy Season<\/em> is available for preorder<\/strong><\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Tench is set to kick off a five-show residency at New York\u2019s Caf\u00e9 Carlyle Feb. 18 and will then hit the road for a short tour that starts\u00a0March 12 in Los Angeles. A complete list of dates can be found at benmonttench.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n