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This World We Live In carries on that tradition. His hits––“Nobody Wins,” “Just Call Me Lonesome,” “Easier Said Than Done”––along with crowd favorites like “I’m In,” “Texas In 1880” and “Folding Money,” marry pop smarts and roots credibility with a profound insight into the human condition. The same could be said of Foster and Lloyd many artists in Nashville claim it was the first F&L record that convinced them to move to town.Īs influential as his work with Foster and Lloyd was, as a solo artist Foster has gone on to create a body of work with the same kind of impact, proving that you can have mainstream success without selling your soul. You may have heard the famous quip about the Velvet Underground: Not a lot of people bought their records, but everyone that did started a band.

The duo released three groundbreaking albums, yielding hits “Crazy Over You,” “Sure Thing,” “What Do You Want From Me This Time?” and “Fair Shake,” and showing a generation of youngsters that Country music could be hip without losing sight of the roots. Though he’s been writing songs since he was seven-years-old––“Little did my mother know that it would haunt her son for the rest of his natural life,” he jokes-he first gained attention in the late 80’s as one half of Foster and Lloyd. This World We Live In is just the latest addition to Foster’s catalog. Yet while you can hear those ghosts in the grooves, the collection is all Radney Foster. It’s not hard to pick out Foster’s influences everything from the aforementioned Owens and Webb, to the vintage pop of the Beatles and the truth and grit of Texas troubadours Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt.

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“Because I love that stuff! The nice thing about doing a record from an independent perspective is that I get to have songs like ‘This World We Live In’ next to stripped down country-R&B things like ‘New Zip Code’ and roots-rock-meets-Buck Owens things like ‘Big Idea.’” “It is a very rootsy record, but the title cut is Darrell and me trying our very best to write something like Jimmy Webb or Burt Bacharach would have written in 1968,” Foster continues. ‘We just did what best serves each song.” “We didn’t go in with any pre-conceived notions about how each song would sound,” says Foster. The arrangements were banged out in the studio, and that live, old-school feeling comes across in the tracks. Instead, we went in and cut the tracks in two days.” Sometimes I think we do too much just because we can. By going to Los Angeles to record, time and money were naturally limited-but it was a good limitation. “I knew they were great musicians, and I figured if I knew the songs well enough upfront, they could just fall in. “Those guys come by the roots-rock feel pretty honest,” laughs Foster. Instead of hiring the same Nashville studio musicians, they called in some friends: Waddy Wachtel and Charley Drayton (members of Keith Richard’s side project, the X-pensive Winos) along with Wallflowers’ keyboardist Rami Jaffe and legendary bassist Bob Glaub (Jackson Browne, C.S&Y, Warren Zevon). The trust and freedom that brings to a project is immeasurable.”Īfter listening to the group of songs Foster had written for the record, they decided to do things a little differently. “And we’re like brothers, so we hold nothing back. “Darrell and Niko are two of the most creative individuals I know,” says Foster.

The set reunites him with producer Darrell Brown and engineer Niko Bolas, the team behind Foster’s critically acclaimed See What You Want To See. Introspective yet freewheeling, This World We Live In combines Foster’s gift for literate songwriting with the rough and tumble sound of a man who’s done battle with the complexities of life. RADNEY FOSTEROn this third CD for Dualtone, Texas singer/songwriter Radney Foster continues to take chances.

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