Jennifer Nettles Teams with Rick Rubin for New Solo Album

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Sugarland‘s Jennifer Nettles is ready for something new. After the successful duo won every country music award going, both Nettles and musical partner Kristian Bush are stretching their creative muscles with solo projects. Nettles’ still untitled solo album will be produced by Rick Rubin and be release in the fall.

“This album is different than what I’ve done before,” she told Rolling Stone. “What I do with Sugarland, primarily it’s stuff that starts with me and Kristian [Bush, Sugarland co-founder] writing together. It’s fun to play with that masculine energy, but for this I wanted to do something really personal – more intimate and emotional.”

With a new baby boy already thoroughly changing her life, she wanted even more change and temporarily exchanged Nashville to Malibu to totally break away from her comfort zone. “I’m a working mother now,” she explained. “The timing was right, both in the arc of my life and as an artist. You can get comfortable with certain sounds, and your fans come to expect them. At the same time, I wanted to play with different parts of my voice or my writing. It won’t be a shock or surprise to a Sugarland fan, but hopefully it will bring in new listeners, too.”

Rolling Stone got to listen to five tracks already and described them as ‘Close-miked acoustic guitars, funky grooves reminiscent of the Band and raucous honky-tonk piano flow through arrangements that Rubin calls “both ancient and modern.”‘

Read the full story on rollingstone.com.

 

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