{"id":1309187,"date":"2019-04-23T13:37:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805712"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:37:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:37:47","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-talks-freewheeling-reckless-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/kiefer-sutherland-talks-freewheeling-reckless-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland Talks Freewheeling Reckless &amp; Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:672383?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">2m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QDb2i1ezWfY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QDb2i1ezWfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>There is always a distinct thrill captured when songs are written on tour. Emmy award winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/kiefer-sutherland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kiefer Sutherland<\/a>, 52, didn\u2019t anticipate falling in love with road life as much as he has. Over the last two years since his 2016 debut, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/down-in-a-hole\/1142031112\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Down in a Hole<\/a><\/em>, the actor approximates that he\u2019s performed more than 300 <a href=\"https:\/\/kiefersutherland.net\/events\/?v=7516fd43adaa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shows<\/a>, and curating his set lists night after night is what led to the songs featured on his sophomore album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/reckless-me\/1454500044\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reckless &amp; Me<\/a><\/em> (out April 26).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of this record was informed by songs I wish we had and were playing live,\u201d Sutherland tells CMT.com. \u201cThat was driving most of the decisions I was making. Some of them were written before the first record was even made \u2026 Some were written on the road when we were touring the last record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result is a collection of freewheeling honky-tonk anthems that will speak to every outlaw soul. Recalling the freedom of the open road, \u201cReckless\u201d rolls like passing white lines on a highway and sings of a rambling artist who gives everything he has on every stage he plays. There\u2019s a nod to Sutherland\u2019s roots in rodeo when he sings, \u201cwe\u2019re ready to go for tonight\u2019s rodeo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team roping national champion, Sutherland remembers the cowboys he met on the U.S. rodeo circuit in the \u201890s as some of the toughest people he\u2019s ever encountered. He got into the sport when raised ranch horses on a small farm he owned in Montana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy exposure to Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, that all came through team roping,\u201d Sutherland says. \u201cMy exposure to that music during that time when I was going from rodeo to rodeo was incredibly important. What I loved about that music was that these guys were telling stories that had a beginning, middle and an end. It was the storytelling that\u2019s always attracted me to acting and storytelling was what really excited me about writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other <em>Reckless &amp; Me<\/em> standouts that embody the freedom that touring life provides include his current single \u201cThis Is How It\u2019s Done,\u201d opener \u201cOpen Road\u201d and \u201cSomething You Love.\u201d His take on Patty Loveless\u2019 \u201cBlame it On Your Heart\u201d is irresistible, and \u201cAgave\u201d offers a Bonnie-and-Clyde storyline that\u2019s set south of the border with salsa undertones and blues-rock guitar riffs that make it sound like two songs in one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reckless &amp; Me<\/em> was recorded in two sets of sessions with producer Jude Cole at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. Distinguished musicians who contributed to the album include guitarist Waddy Wachtel (Stevie Nicks), drummer Brian MacLeod (Sheryl Crow) and legendary pianist Jim Cox, who has pretty much recorded with everyone from B.B. King to Travis Tritt.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy more from CMT.com\u2019s interview with Sutherland below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT.com: I obviously see the storytelling parallels in acting and music. Who are the storytellers that really informed you as a songwriter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sutherland: Merle Haggard is one of my favorite songwriters for a variety of reasons. You often hear country music referred to as three chords and the truth. I think Merle really represented that beautifully. Merle would write songs you knew were personal like \u201cTonight the Bottle Let Me Down.\u201d It\u2019s not a flattering song to the person who wrote it. But it was so honest, and I think all of us have gone through a moment where we have felt like that, and we have been that person.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson were writers like that, and I can say the same thing about Bob Seger. Seger was a really open writer, and that\u2019s what I aspire to be. That\u2019s the carrot on the end of the stick that you keep chasing: try to be as open and honest in the songs as you possibly can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was there another artist that really believed in you when were you first starting to write music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jude Cole. He\u2019s been one of my best friends for 30 years, and I think he made three records with Warner Brothers, and he became a producer. I was just playing in small bars around Los Angeles [when I first started performing]. In fact, I had a rule, the band that I was playing with we would play anywhere as long as it was 50 miles outside Los Angeles. I was playing a lot of songs that I had written and then some covers.<\/p>\n<p>He was the one who got me to record the first couple songs and he ended up producing both of these records. I\u2019m so grateful to him that he gave me the confidence to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t expect [touring] would become one of the great loves of my life. We\u2019ve played almost 300 shows in two-and-a-half years, and it\u2019s just been one of the great experiences that I\u2019ve ever had. None of that would have happened had it not been for him making me feel confident to do it. And he also helped me battle the stigma that I\u2019m acutely aware of an actor doing music. He slowly walked me through that, as well. I would not have done any of this had it not been for him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As someone who is perpetually creative in acting and music, what keeps you in it? What connection do you get from a live audience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second part of your question answers the first. It\u2019s the live audience. I was so nervous when I started. I remember my right hand would shake so bad, and as an actor, if your hand is shaking, if you\u2019re nervous, you just put them in your pocket. But as a guitar player, you need them. I found that if I looked out in the audience, I could find one person, and if I just focused on them, everything would be alright. You try and find someone that\u2019s listening.<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, I feel this real personal connection because these songs are not written by a character, they\u2019re written by me. They\u2019re my personal songs. They\u2019re stories of my life in a very personal intimate way. And I have found when I have gone to share them with an audience, their response has just been so generous.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always considered our show to be really more of a conversation because I get to tell a story of, \u201cThis is where I was when I wrote this song, and this is what I was going through.\u201d And I can see in peoples\u2019 faces that they\u2019ve gone through very similar things.<\/p>\n<p>Anytime you can allow other people to realize that we\u2019re all going through this thing called life together, and that it\u2019s not easy, I think that makes people feel better. It certainly makes me feel better to play those songs that express that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1805712\/kiefer-sutherland-talks-freewheeling-reckless-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 2m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] There is always a distinct thrill captured when songs are written on tour. Emmy award winner Kiefer Sutherland, 52, didn\u2019t anticipate falling in love with road life as much as he has. 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