{"id":2447092,"date":"2019-08-02T06:37:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=866593"},"modified":"2019-08-02T06:37:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:37:37","slug":"watch-singer-songwriter-sam-fender-perform-will-we-talk-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-singer-songwriter-sam-fender-perform-will-we-talk-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Singer-Songwriter Sam Fender Perform \u2018Will We Talk?\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-02-at-8.26.48-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>U.K. singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sam-fender\/\">Sam Fender<\/a> was the musical guest on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\"><em>The Tonight Show<\/em><\/a> on Thursday night, performing his song \u201cWill We Talk?\u201d The track is featured on his forthcoming debut album <em>Hypersonic Missiles<\/em>, out September 13th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill We Talk?\u201d proved to be a good choice for the&nbsp;<em>Tonight Show<\/em> stage, with no less than four guitarists (including Fender himself) and a string section providing backup to Fender\u2019s passionate vocals. Shouting out New Order in the first line \u2013 \u201cBlue Monday\/Blarin\u2019 loudly out the speakers\u201d \u2013 Fender\u2019s stage presence leaned more towards Springsteen than new wave, injecting the yearning message of the song into his wide stance and urgent guitar-playing.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Tonight Show<\/em> performance marked Fender\u2019s second U.S. late-night performance of 2019: The emerging rocker previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=upka3wstpbQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">played a pair of tracks<\/a> on <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em> in March.<\/p>\n<p>22-year-old Fender is notably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/hardly-anyone-in-the-pop-charts-writes-their-own-music-alone-anymore-815333\/\">one of the few true singer-songwriters<\/a> who\u2019s climbing the modern-day pop charts. \u201cI have nothing against co-writes and the importance of them in our business, but Sam\u2019s lyrics shoot straight from the heart \u2014 you can feel that,\u201d Owain Davies, Fender\u2019s manager, told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in April. \u201cIt\u2019s a massive factor for sure. These are deeply personal stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sam-fender-will-we-talk-tonight-show-jimmy-fallon-866593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. singer-songwriter Sam Fender was the musical guest on The Tonight Show on Thursday night, performing his song \u201cWill We Talk?\u201d The track is featured on his forthcoming debut album Hypersonic Missiles, out September 13th. \u201cWill We Talk?\u201d proved to be a good choice for the&nbsp;Tonight Show stage, with no less than four guitarists (including [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 16:30:03","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}