Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Music news / New Music Cody ChesnuTT's BACK(!) and 'Landing On a Hundred'
Posted by Rodney Carmichael @Rappin_Rodney on Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:31 PM
- John Ferguson
Our first peek at Cody ChesnuTT's recently announced forthcoming LP, Landing On a Hundred, came two years ago when Chuck Lightning, creative director/co-founder of Wondaland Arts Society, interviewed him exclusively for Creative Loafing. At the time, ChesnuTT described the unreleased album as "a body of work that really reflects a real intense period of observation" coming off the success of 2002's aptly-named debut The Headphone Masterpiece.
Cody ChesnuTT: To put it plain, I moved out to the country [Tallahassee, Fla.] and went into a deep meditation. I began to read a lot more. Study the [Bible] scriptures a lot more. You know, I was really just asking God to give me something that I could contribute to the culture. Something that we could really feed off of and use as a tool to get a little deeper inside what causes us to move forward.
This week, the Atlanta native has debuted two songs from the project — "Under the Spell of the Handout" (via Okayplayer.com) and "That's Still Mama" (via Paste) — plus a Kickstarter campaign to raise $20,000 toward the album's 2012 release. Here's a preview of the album per the press release:
Topics on Landing On a Hundred cover lots of grown-folks business:a man’s road to redemption after years of womanizing and crack addiction, the power and labor of slow-burning marital love that eclipses mere material expressions of affection. Keeping it truthful is ultimately what matters most in Cody’s songs: how it reveals itself in your darkest thoughts, how it can heal old wounds with a handclap and a foot stomp.
"Under the Spell of the Handout"
LISTEN and DOWNLOAD: "That's Still Mama" (mp3)
Much of the album was recorded with a ten-piece band in Memphis-based Royal Studios, where the likes of Al Green, Buddy Guy, and Ike & Tina Turner laid tracks back in the day. “The original tracks were cut on two-inch tape,” Cody explains. “My hands were tingling because I got to sing on the actual microphone that Al Green recorded with. Nothing has changed. The downhome acoustic treatments are still in place.”
Check out Chesnutt's Kickstarter campaign video and a live studio recording of the song "Everybody's Brother," which debuted last week on Okayplayer.com, below the jump...
ChesnuTT also has two Kickstarter Launch shows this week — at SOB's in New York tomorrow (Wed., July 11) and at Yoshi's in San Francisco on Thurs., July 12. The SOB's show will be streamed live and viewable on Livestream at 10 p.m.
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