Ultimately, Hynde says her music is a means to pursue other passion projects, including a book the onetime vegan restaurant owner is writing about cow protection and non-slaughter farming as a solution for soil degradation.Ī study last year commissioned by the United Nations declared that because of industrial farming, 24 billion tons of fertile soil are being lost each year. That jazz dub covers album was inspired by a song Hynde recorded for a film with orchestral accompaniment, a drastically different experience from the more off-the-cuff rock recording approach. The next Pretenders album is being co-written with the band's current guitarist James Walbourne, whose other band, the Rails, will open Tuesday's show. I have had my various addictions over the years and (expletive) up a lot like anyone does, I suppose. "It comes from that experience of waking up, looking in the mirror and thinking, 'God, you’re an (expletive),'" Hynde said. That includes a rather candid track, "I Hate Myself," which Hynde says is actually really fun live. The Akron thing is a little bit of the cherry on top, where we could have a wry aside about Akron concerns."įollowing in the vein of her book "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender," the songs on "Alone" are largely autobiographical, Hynde said. "He is a brilliant guy to get to work with and hang out with," she said. The latest Pretenders album "Alone" was recorded in just 10 days, with Hynde working with another famed rocker from Akron, Ohio - Grammy-award winning producer Dan Auerbach, singer and guitarist for the Black Keys and the Arcs. "I'm not trying to prove anything," she said. Not that the finality of time has pushed Hynde to aspire for some big statement on her latest albums, nor has it given the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer a grander sense of self. You have this sense that time is running out, but as long as you are breathing, time is still with you." "I would go for two years and not even look at a guitar," she said.
"You really have to put in some hours and you don't have that much time to yourself." "I had a family I had to look after for 20 years," Hynde told the Journal Sentinel in a phone interview. On top of everything Hynde has released in recent years, a number of stockpiled projects are expected to come out soon, including a jazz dub covers album, a new Pretenders album, a book featuring her paintings, and a book about non-slaughter farming. RELATED: A look back at the Violent Femmes' first 30 years "That's my forte, spotting good guitar players." "I was with (Pretenders guitarist) Jimmy (Honeyman-Scott), and we were like, 'Let's see if we can get them to play before we go on,'" Hynde recalls. That band was the Violent Femmes, then unknown, but today, the most accomplished rock group to come out of Brew City. Then there's the touring, including a gig Tuesday in Milwaukee, where the Pretenders in 1981 famously invited a local band busking on the street to open their show at the Oriental Theatre that night. The Pretenders singer, songwriter and guitarist has been on an energetic, prolific tear in recent years: a solo album in 2014, an autobiography in 2015, the first Pretenders album in eight years in 2016. Chrissie Hynde is 66, but says she feels like she's 15.
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