Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench is a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and one of contemporary music’s finest organ players, piano players, anything- with-keys players. In addition to all of the Heartbreakers recordings, Tench has played on records by Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Neil Diamond, the Chicks, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, just to name a few. Jimmy Iovine, man of many hats and former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' producer, puts it this way: "If you want a track to sound better, you just put Benmont's part higher in the mix.”
Benmont Tench’s second solo LP The Melancholy Season is out now via Dark Horse Records. The Melancholy Season is Benmont Tench's true arrival as a singer-songwriter, without compromise or doubt. It was produced by Jonathan Wilson–an acclaimed singer-songwriter who has worked on career-defining albums for Dawes, Father John Misty and Margo Price–with an attention to the intimacy where the best songs breathe and resonate
Benmont Tench
A brilliant little visualizer by Spencer Ramsey to my song “Under The Starlight” is viewable now. I wrote the song with Donald Henry years ago in Nashville.
"Tao endures. The body dies. There is no danger.” - Lao Tzu
6 months ago | [YT] | 3
View 1 reply
Benmont Tench
Taking you behind the scenes of the making of the video for my new song “The Melancholy Season” 🎹 Lucky to have the talented Chloe Badner at the helm leading an incredible crew! Thanks to The Cat’s Crawl for letting us film there. You can watch the video now and preorder my new record all through the link in my bio.
Video: https://youtu.be/-oXdq1QV4Oc
Preorder The Melancholy Season: darkhorserecords.lnk.to/melancholyseason
7 months ago | [YT] | 4
View 0 replies
Benmont Tench
I’m very happy to announce the release, as a first single, “The Melancholy Season” - the title track from my new and second solo record via Dark Horse Records. Produced by Jonathan Wilson and with guest turns by Jenny O, Sara Watkins, and Taylor Goldsmith. Sebastian Steinberg and Jonathan himself round out the most excellent band. The album will be available March 7th.
There is also a video for the song, directed by the talented Chloe Badner, you can watch below.
On top of my dates at The Carlyle in NYC, I’ll be playing some shows this spring in the following cities. Use the presale code STARLIGHT to get your tickets tomorrow starting at 10am local time. Public on-sale will be Friday, February 7th.
3/12 - Los Angeles,CA - Largo
3/19 - Los Angles, CA - Largo
4/2 - Ojai, CA - Ojai Playhouse
4/4 - Santa Cruz, CA - Kuumbwa Jazz Center
4/5 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
4/8 - Seattle, WA - The Triple Door
4/9 - Portland, OR - The Old Church
4/11 - Grass Valley, CA - The Center for the Arts
4/12 - Sonoma, CA - Sebastiani Theatre
You can preorder the record and see upcoming tour dates at www.benmonttench.com/
7 months ago | [YT] | 1
View 1 reply