Yo, beautiful human.

Marcus King is in the studio.

Yo, welcome back.

Darling Blue, brand new album.

First album you do with your band in seven years, correct?

Yeah, yeah, man.

Why now, brother?

Well, it was just timing, dude.

It was like, you know, 2018, we did that record.

And then right after that, I went and did El Dorado with Dan Hauerbach.

And Dan had like a really, like, locked in, dialed in system, you know.

He had the remaining cats from the Memphis boys,

and the Memphis boys played on suspicious minds with Elvis Presley,

and they played on a son of a preacher man with Dusty Springfield.

So, like, casual.

They know what they're doing, and Dan had that dialed in.

I was like, okay, like, that's how Dan wanted to play it.

He's got his Philil specter wall of sound

spef uh speficis uh spes i couldn't say this word yesterday specissivity

specis what i know you're specific exactly he's very specific um and uh anyway i was like well i can it a Marcus King band record, so then I made the pivot,

and I did it as a solo album.

And me and my drummer, you know, we were always kind of the glue of the band.

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