Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers and Scud Mountain Boys will release his debut solo studio album Sunny, I Was Wrong on April 3, 2026 via New West Records. The 11-song set was produced by Pernice and features Aimee Mann, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub. Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Webb, and includes liner notes written by Warren Zanes (author of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska). Pernice is also joined by Jim Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies, Mike Belitsky of The Sadies, Mike Evin, and Mike McKenzie as his backing band across the album. Sunny, I Was Wrong follows the 2024 Pernice Brothers album Who Will You Believe.
Today, Pernice shared the single “I’d Rather Look Away,” which features Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub. Pernice says, “This song was not on my list to make the record. It was among the 20 or 30 songs I sent my old friend Warren Zanes and when I told him it was not on my list, he said, and I quote, ‘Joey, Joey, Joey, are you nuts?’ Okay, okay. To quote Robert Evans, ‘The kid stays in the picture.’ Pete Mancini plays all of the beautiful electric guitar tracks on the song. His parts and cues are spot on. And I knew I had to have my old friend Norman Blake add a vocal harmony arrangement, and he generously obliged. Norman is, among other notable things, the best harmony vocal arranger/singer I’ve ever met. It’s part of his natural way.”
