{"id":805893,"date":"2020-03-31T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976005"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:19:34","slug":"brendan-benson-drops-ode-to-domesticity-richest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/brendan-benson-drops-ode-to-domesticity-richest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Benson Drops Ode to Domesticity, \u2018Richest Man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brendan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brendan-benson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brendan-benson\" data-tag=\"brendan-benson\">Brendan Benson<\/a> has dropped a charming ode to family life, \u201cRichest Man,\u201d off his upcoming album, <em>Dear Life<\/em>, (out April 24th via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/third-man-records\/\" id=\"auto-tag_third-man-records\" data-tag=\"third-man-records\">Third Man Records<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got two beautiful babies\/one hell of a good looking wife,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/raconteurs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_raconteurs\" data-tag=\"raconteurs\">Raconteurs<\/a> guitarist sings over a sizzling guitar riff. \u201cGot twice the love and half the money\/and I feel like the richest man alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never thought I would write a song about domesticity!\u201d Benson said in a statement. \u201cWhen I wrote the words, I thought I would eventually change them to something a little less literal and \u2018family man,\u2019 but in the end, I decided I liked the lyrics for those two reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichest Man\u201d follows the single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C-ix5M_5CUA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Good to Be Alive.<\/a>\u201d <em>Dear Life<\/em> is Benson\u2019s seventh solo album, his first since 2013\u2019s<em> You Were Right.<\/em> \u201cThere\u2019s something about this record,\u201d he said. \u201cA friend of mine called it \u2018life-affirming.\u2019 I thought it was a joke at first but then realized, well, it\u2019s about life and death for sure. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s positive or optimistic or whatever, but that\u2019s what\u2019s going on with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While under quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, Benson has postponed his spring tour in support of the record and has been posting live performances of tracks from <em>Dear Life<\/em> instead. Titled the \u201cBoy in the Bubble,\u201d the series can be found on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B-LDT5-Binx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, posting every day at 5:20 pm E.T.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brendan-benson-new-single-richest-man-976005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Benson has dropped a charming ode to family life, \u201cRichest Man,\u201d off his upcoming album, Dear Life, (out April 24th via Third Man Records). \u201cI\u2019ve got two beautiful babies\/one hell of a good looking wife,\u201d the Raconteurs guitarist sings over a sizzling guitar riff. \u201cGot twice the love and half the money\/and I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 17:22:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}