I ain’t asking, I don’t want to know why, but the BoDeans are continuing on, and so is Sam Llanas, though he recently announced he is going it solo. Of course you know he was the former lead singer and guitarist for the acclaimed Milwaukee, or should we say Waukesha, band. They recently put out their 10th studio album, Indigo Dreams, and even more recently, so did Sam, as 4 A.M. (The Way Home) just came out. Ahhh, 4 A.M....the middle of the night is my favorite time, for introspection, for solitude, for quiet time to hear one’s own voice. The intimate, acoustic based album was produced by longtime collaborator Gary Tanin. There are 10 new tunes written by Sam, and he includes one cover, Cyndi Lauper’s “All Through the Night.” This is Sam’s second solo album, and it is markedly different from his 1998 A Good Day to Die, which was a eulogy for Sam’s brother, recorded under the name of Absinthe.
Sam comments, “I wanted to do something that was lighter, as light as I can get. I wanted it to be completely different. That’s why 4 A.M. is very much an acoustic record.” He had been working on this album for almost four years, having started it when the BoDeans were between projects. Some of the tunes on 4 A.M. were recorded by the BoDeans, like the one we are bringing you today, “Nobody Luvs Me.” Sam continues, “It’s quite a different version — you wouldn’t really know it’s the same song.” We bring you the Music Fog recording, filmed during our Fall Marathon, at Marathon Recorders in Nashville, during last month's Americana Fest. He is solo here, and it is a thing of beauty, “Nobody Luvs Me.”
-Jessie Scott
