2021-11-04
24 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
The War on Drugs is a band from Philadelphia who formed in 2005.
They won the Grammy for Best Rock Album in 2018.
This year, they put out their fifth album, I Don't Live Here Anymore.
Adam Grandusiel is the singer and lead guitarist in the band,
and I talked to him at his recording space here in LA.
In this episode, Adam breaks down the title track from I Don't Live Here Anymore.
He explains how the song was influenced by Bob Dylan and his own newborn son.
I'm Adam from The War on Drugs.
We had just had our first child late July of 2019.
With I Don't Live Here Anymore,
it started basically
as me sitting in the nursing chair in Bruce's room when he was about six weeks old.
He'd just be on his little blanket.
I would be in the chair just strumming an acoustic lightly.
And I was just strumming these two chords that were cool.
I mean, it wasn't even that exciting.