That’s a broad question with a lot of years in between. How would you compare playing that first gig for what you said was about 30-40 people at your buddy Frank’s game shop (The Only Game In Town) in your hometown (Somerville, NJ) to playing big stages like Reading/Leeds Festival? I think if your career is coming into play in your own writing, that’s a bizarre thing. You make references to things that you’ve been through, but I don’t think it has any reference on… rarely would I feel the need to write about my actual career. No, I think that that’s just you write about events in your life and things that you remember. “Open All Night” nostalgically talks about times “back when local bars and broken hearts were home.” Is that at all alluding to going back to when it all began and starting anew with the solo releases? In our recent interview with Fallon, he told us about the writing/recording process for Painkillers, the future of The Gaslight Anthem, and more. Produced by superstar producer Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Frank Turner, Keith Urban), Fallon recorded the album earlier this year at Nashville’s Taxidermy Studios with Fallon fronting a band that included Walker, bassist Catherine Popper (Jack White, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Willie Nelson) and drummer Mark Stepro (Hayes Carll, Ben Kweller, Jackson Browne), with the album reaffirming Fallon‘s elemental gifts as a songwriter and storyteller, booming with insistent imagery, narrative craft, and the extraordinary emotional acuity that has informed his music since the very start. Brian Fallon is back with his new solo album, Painkillers.

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