They don’t have a record deal or release date for their album yet, and their name still isn’t even a 100% firm, but a new "supergroup" featuring members of the Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello’s Imposters, Toad the Wet Sprocket and others has taken shape in Los Angeles and will likely be heard from this year.
Tentatively known as the Scrolls, the octet is comprised of keyboardist Benmont Tench from Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, drummer Pete Thomas and bassist Davey Faragher from Elvis Costello’s Imposters, Nickel Creek’s Sara and Sean Watkins, Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips, fiddler Luke Bula from the Blue Merle Band and multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz.
Phillips tells Billboard.com that the group has recorded 16 tracks with producer Jim Scott and hopes to have an album ready to release in the fall. "We cut the whole album with eight people, live, all of us together," Phillips reports. "It’s old school. [There are] four lead singers, great songs, amazing players. It’s just been an amazing experience."
Phillips describes the sound as "classic American music — with more chords. Benmont jokes about how it will prevent him from getting Alzheimer’s. It’s all pretty much song format and a combination of Americana and rock and strangeness. It’s very real, if that makes sense."
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