Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday, and Homage to Catalonia is up for pre-order. Pre-order it and five songs land in your hands immediately: Cadaqués Cowboy — the new one, a full two weeks before it reaches Spotify on the 18th Truck Driver Carolina Peaches Ten Bullets in the Back Not Gonna Write a Song The rest of the record follows in January. It's been arriving in pieces for a couple of years now, and this is where it starts becoming a whole thing. Pre-order Homage to Catalonia → Two reasons to do...

Friends — The new record is called Homage to Catalonia. It's my sixth, and it comes out in January. The next song from it arrives on 18 September. It's called "Cadaqués Cowboy," and it imagines Salvador Dalí as a spaghetti-western drifter — kind of an alien, but always playing with reality. Cadaqués is the white village up the Costa Brava where Dalí kept a house. You drive over a mountain to get there, and then the road simply stops, because there's nowhere further to go. I've been in...

Hey, Back in the spring I played a house concert up in Alella, in the hills outside Barcelona — vineyards on one side, the sea somewhere off the other. Twenty-odd people. Chairs carried out from the kitchen. No PA, no soundcheck. Three or four songs in I stopped worrying about whether the guitar was loud enough, because the room had gone that particular kind of quiet you only get when people are actually listening. You can hear it happen. It's the reason I keep doing these. People ask fairly...