Brandon Flowers has a confession. แก้ไข
For the last 25 years, he’s been the frontman of The Killers, channelling his love of stadium rock and British new wave on songs like Mr Brightside, When You Were Young and Human.
But in the back of his mind, there’s always been an alternative soundtrack.
“You know, a lot of guys in my line of business develop drug addictions,” he says.
“I got a country addiction.”
It started when he was a kid in Nephi, Utah. His dad would play Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and John Conlee on the car stereo. School dances, held at the local golf club, would always feature country and western slow dances.
So when Flowers moved back home and started revisiting his childhood haunts, his passion for country was rekindled.
You can hear the results on his third solo album, Thrasher, recorded in Nashville’s famed RCA Studio A – home to Dolly Parton’s Jolene and I Will Always Love You – with a group of veteran musicians that included pedal steel legend Bruce Bouton, 85-year-old harmonica player Charlie McCoy, and Americana musician Margo Price.