Blake Mills has announced a new album: Jelly Road is out July 14 via New Deal and Verve. The LP was co-written with Chris Weisman, the prolific and reclusive jazz musician from Brattleboro, Vermont. Check out the new song “Skeleton Is Walking” below. Joseph Lorge recorded and co-mixed the album.
Mills and Weisman also worked together on material for Daisy Jones & the Six and its accompanying album, Aurora. The duo will tour around Mills’ forthcoming performance with Joni Mitchell in Gorge, Washington. Find those dates below.
Mills’ last solo album was 2020’s Mutable Set. In 2021, he worked with Pino Palladino on Notes With Attachments. He’s also worked on recent records for artists including Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, and Phoebe Bridgers.
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Jelly Road:
01 Suchlike Horses
02 Highway Bright
03 Jelly Road
04 Skeleton Is Walking
05 Unsingable
06 Wendy Melvoin
07 The Light Is Long
08 Breakthrough Moon
09 There Is No Now
10 Press My Luck
11 A Fez
12 Without an Ending
Blake Mills featuring Chris Weisman:
06-13 Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
06-14 Portland, OR – The Old Church
06-16 San Francisco, CA – August Hall
06-17 Healdsburg, CA – Little Saint
06-20 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy and Harriet’s
06-22 Los Angeles, CA – The Pico Union Project