Sid Griffin – The Trick Is to Breathe (2014)

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the home studio of Thomm Jutz in February 2014 over four days, The Trick Is to Breathe is first solo album by Sid Griffin (the Coal Porters, the Long Ryders) in a decade.
After recording in the UK for most of the past two decades, Sid decided to do everything differently from his last solo album. “Billy Bragg told me his last album was recorded by Joe Henry in just a few days out in Pasadena, California and I remembered Dylan did ‘Nashville Skyline’ in only a few days. So I contacted some Nashville cats I knew, they recommended Thomm Jutz as a producer, he and I hit it off, Thom picked most of the players and by the time I flew to Tennessee these folks knew my songs better than I did. Hence we started on Monday and were done by Thursday!”
“I recorded in the USA instead of Europe, I did not engineer, co-produce, or mix the album, on a few tracks I only sang, I put myself entirely in the hands of others, I did not use any of the Coal Porters’ vast musical talents, I primarily used musicians I had not met before the sessions and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. Without question it was time for a change, time to shake things up.”