The Lumineers
Bob Sweeney/WXPN
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Bob Sweeney/WXPN
The Lumineers
Bob Sweeney/WXPN
- “Identical Outdated Tune”
- “So Lengthy”
- “Cussed Love”
- “Gloria”
- “You are All I Obtained”
- “Gun Tune”
For twenty years, Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites have been writing songs, recording and touring collectively as The Lumineers. However, as Schultz says, their relationship goes manner past that.
“It is 20 years, and we additionally grew up in the identical hometown, the place he was mates with my youthful brother,” Schultz says. “I used to be mates along with his older brother, so it is, like, I keep in mind household journeys the place you and your brother got here with us.”
On this session, Schultz and Fraites discuss in regards to the newest journey they took collectively: making the brand new Lumineers album, Automated. They will carry out songs from it stay, together with a track about their friendship.
“[‘You’re All I Got’] type of talks in regards to the struggles of actually, like, if I am going this manner, he feels it with this, like, rope,” Fraites says. “Typically, it is nearly just like the rope has, like, a barb in Wes’ abdomen and vice versa. He desires to go left and I wanna go proper.”
The band additionally talks about self-producing Automated and the best way their songwriting has modified through the years.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod and Will Loftus. The net story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams and our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.
