Tired Pony began life as a doodle in Gary Lightbody’s jotter. During idle moments on Snow Patrol’s year-long tour cycle for their last album, ‚A Hundred Million Suns‚, Gary began writing songs for this imaginary band. Forward to January 2010, a cast of characters assembled at Portland’s Type Foundry studio; from the extended Snow Patrol family there was Troy Stewart, regular touring member of the band, Iain Archer, long-time Snow Patrol associate and collaborator, Richard Colburn, the renowned drummer with Belle & Sebastian, and producer Garret ‚Jacknife‘ Lee, who brought in the final two members, Peter Buck from R.E.M. and Scott McCaughey, the Seattle musical polymath who’s been R.E.M.’s full-time auxiliary member since 1994. The breathtaking result is ‚The Place We Ran From‚, which featured guest contributions from M. Ward and his She & Him partner Zooey Deschanel who duets with Gary on ‚Get On The Road‘. ‚The Good Book‘ was sung by Tom Smith of Editors, who’s a perfect fit for the narrative’s gothic weave of guilt and redemption. Includes the single ‚Dead American Writers‘.
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