{"id":26083,"date":"2025-02-10T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26083"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:00:36","slug":"benmont-tenchs-the-melancholy-season-due-march-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26083","title":{"rendered":"BENMONT TENCH\u2019S\u00a0&#8211; THE MELANCHOLY SEASON\u00a0DUE MARCH 7\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>VIA DARK HORSE RECORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>LEGENDARY MEMBER OF&nbsp;<br>TOM PETTY &amp; THE HEARTBREAKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PastedGraphic-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PastedGraphic-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PastedGraphic-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PastedGraphic-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PastedGraphic-3-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PastedGraphic-3.png 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Benmont Tench, legendary keyboard player and founding member of&nbsp;<strong>Tom Petty &amp; the Heartbreakers&nbsp;<\/strong>is set for the release of his second solo album&nbsp;<strong><em>The Melancholy Season<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>March 7&nbsp;<\/strong>on&nbsp;<strong>Dark Horse Records<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tench\u2019s first solo effort in over a decade,&nbsp;<em>The Melancholy Season&nbsp;<\/em>isproduced by&nbsp;<strong>Jonathan Wilson&nbsp;<\/strong>(Father John Misty, Margo Price, Billy Strings) and includes performances by&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Goldsmith (<\/strong>Dawes),&nbsp;<strong>Sara Watkins<\/strong>&nbsp;(Nickel Creek), singer\/songwriter&nbsp;<strong>Jenny O.&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Sebastian Steinberg&nbsp;<\/strong>(Fiona Apple, Iron and Wine, Soul Coughing).Pre-order the record&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/darkhorserecords.lnk.to\/melancholyseason\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In anticipation of the forthcoming release, the album\u2019s title track \u201c<strong>The Melancholy Season<\/strong>\u201d is debuting now alongside a video directed by\u00a0<strong>Chloe Badner\u00a0<\/strong>(Caroline Polachek). Tench notes,\u00a0\u201cThe meaning of the song is subject to every listener\u2019s interpretation, but I will say that the \u2018Orion\u2019 in the song is the constellation Orion, whose arrival in the night sky above my old house always signalled the coming of colder weather,\u00a0 and the emotional change that came with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Benmont Tench - The Melancholy Season (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-oXdq1QV4Oc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Benmont Tench \u201ccouldn\u2019t be happier\u201d about finding a home for The Melancholy Season at Dark Horse Records, saying&nbsp;\u2018It\u2019s an emotionally resonant label for me. And they have George\u2019s music, Cat Stevens, Joe Strummer \u2014 these are writers. To be in that company, it\u2019s perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a career spanning five decades, Tench is celebrated as one of contemporary music\u2019s finest keyboardists, renowned for his exceptional work on the organ and piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tench has not only shaped the sound of the Heartbreakers but has also contributed to an impressive array of recordings with a diverse roster of artists, including Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson, Alanis Morissette, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, the Chicks, the Replacements, The Screaming Trees, John Prine, Waylon Jennings, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, the Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIA DARK HORSE RECORDS LEGENDARY MEMBER OF&nbsp;TOM PETTY &amp; THE HEARTBREAKERS Benmont Tench, legendary keyboard player and founding member of&nbsp;Tom Petty &amp; the Heartbreakers&nbsp;is set for the release of his second solo album&nbsp;The Melancholy Season&nbsp;March 7&nbsp;on&nbsp;Dark Horse Records.&nbsp; Tench\u2019s first solo effort in over a decade,&nbsp;The Melancholy Season&nbsp;isproduced by&nbsp;Jonathan Wilson&nbsp;(Father John Misty, Margo Price, Billy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8732],"class_list":["post-26083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-benmont-tench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26086,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083\/revisions\/26086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}