WATCH: Eagle Johnson Shares Short Film of New Album Wild Heart

Latest LP from Wilco-approved artist out now

May 2, 2023May 2, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Eagle Johnson, Pat Sansone, Patrick Carney, The Black Keys, Wilco, Wild Heart

“An instant classic” is what Wilco’s Pat Sansone has called the latest album from Nashville cat Eagle Johnson, Wild Heart.

Now off the momentum of praise for LP, Johnson has released a short film on the making of the album aimed to give fans a keener sense of what makes his distinctive style click. After all, we are talking about a man who rose up from the local circuit of North Florida to relocate to Memphis, TN, find a mentor in “the last of the original Delta bluesmen” Zeke Johnson, and collaborate with Lee “Scratch” Perry shortly before his passing in 2021.

Wild Heart was recorded at The Bomb Shelter Studios in Nashville, TN with up-and-coming analog wizard Jack Tellmann engineering / co-producing while Eagle handled producing / mixing duties. What was created is a raw, live-to-tape rock & roll album with strings, an album that Patrick Carney of The Black Keys hailed as “fucking great.”

Eagle Johnson Wild Heart, self-released 2023

“Wild Heart is an album about searching for love, ending gun violence, chasing money, and wondering who’s in charge of all this chaos,” Johnson tells Rock & Roll Globe about the album and its accompanying film. “In today’s creative landscape of over-polished, filtered fakery, I think there is an emerging collective desire for the raw and real. The Wild Heart album is an attempt to fill that void with a live-to-tape, imperfect, performance-based record that’s gritty and rough around the edges with plenty of bleed. The Wild Heart short film is a ‘making of’ the record that hopes to bring our fans into the studio with us to see how we do our thing.”

In addition to the Wild Heart short film there are plans for a vinyl release in the near future. Tour dates TBA.