{"id":118071,"date":"2024-07-19T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/19\/trains-next-album-may-be-inspired-by-tom-petty-says-singer-pat-monahan\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:01:17","slug":"trains-next-album-may-be-inspired-by-tom-petty-says-singer-pat-monahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/19\/trains-next-album-may-be-inspired-by-tom-petty-says-singer-pat-monahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Train&#8217;s next album may be inspired by Tom Petty, says singer Pat Monahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-18\/M_Train2024_jasperGraham_071824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jasper Graham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Train<\/strong>&#8216;s latest single is a standalone track called &#8220;Long Yellow Dress&#8221; and they have a concert album,\u00a0<em>Live at Royal Albert Hall,<\/em> coming out July 26. But <strong>Train<\/strong> singer<strong> Pat Monahan<\/strong> says he&#8217;s already planning the band&#8217;s next album and has an idea of what it might sound like.<\/p>\n<p>According to Michigan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macombdaily.com\/2024\/07\/18\/train-reo-speedwagon-hope-to-win-over-fans-with-unusual-summer-tour-pairing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Macomb Daily<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> Monahan said he plans to go to Nashville to write the follow-up to 2022&#8217;s <em>AM Gold<\/em>, which had a bit of a yacht rock vibe. This time, he says, &#8220;I think we\u2019ll make more of a <strong>Tom Petty<\/strong>-ish, Americana kind of a record.\u201d Train has often covered Petty&#8217;s hit &#8220;Free Falling&#8221; in concert.<\/p>\n<p>However, Monahan, who&#8217;s the only original member of Train still in the group, says he&#8217;s not too worried about following up the success of the band&#8217;s past hits, like &#8220;Drops of Jupiter,&#8221; &#8220;Drive By&#8221; and &#8220;Hey, Soul Sister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t really sweat it anymore,&#8221; he tells <em>Macomb Daily<\/em>. &#8220;You reach a certain place in your career where you\u2019ve proved enough to yourself and others and it\u2019s about just about vibing together and doing good work. That\u2019s what\u2019s important to me now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Train is currently on tour with <strong>REO Speedwagon<\/strong>; both acts agreed that even though they&#8217;re from different generations, it&#8217;d be, as Monahan says, &#8220;fun to mix it up one summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper Graham Train&#8216;s latest single is a standalone track called &#8220;Long Yellow Dress&#8221; and they have a concert album,\u00a0Live at Royal Albert Hall, coming out July 26. But Train singer Pat Monahan says he&#8217;s already planning the band&#8217;s next album and has an idea of what it might sound like.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/19\/trains-next-album-may-be-inspired-by-tom-petty-says-singer-pat-monahan\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}