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one has to do is dip into the river to get swept away by the current.
“It’s actually a pretty quintessential Montana thing,” Spear said. “I wrote it at the Crown of the Continent work- shop, Brett Allen at Snowghost (studios) recorded it, Marco Forcone directed the video and helped conceptualize it.”
Jazz musician Erica von Kleist composed the piano arrangement for the song, which Spear believed would work better on the keys than on the strings of a guitar.
Von Kleist is also in the video, which was shot in a wrecking yard in Columbia Falls.
“This video couldn’t have been done anywhere else,” Spear said.
As for the upcoming album, Spear said he isn’t sure if all his new songs will be on one album, because they vary in their mood and tempo.
“It’s stylistically so all over the place,” he said. “I might just have to punt and say ‘Yep, it’s stylistically all over the place,’ or I might have to separate it into two different EPs.”
His tune on local radio station 103.1, “The Song We Sing,” is upbeat, reminis- cent of Bruce Springsteen, while “I Had a Nice Time” is more cynical, almost mel- ancholy. Spear said he made sure his 2012 album flowed nicely from song to song, but as the industry changes, that may be less important for his next release.
“It’s so ‘one single at a time,’ so most albums now just end up being compila- tions and they’re not really designed to be listened to from beginning to
Time Trippers, that’s my junk food,” he
end,” he said.
But fear not, Time Tripper fans: said. “I love that.”
The New Wave Time Trippers.
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Even with a new album, Spear said he will continue to front one of the most popular dance bands in the valley.
“I’ll always play with The New Wave
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