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Kweller’s Final Jaunt for Changing Horses

Sure, he’s limping around with a nearly broken foot, but that isn’t stopping Ben Kweller from putting one of the best sets of his life. Supporting his first ever totally country based album “Changing Horses,” his jaunt concluded Saturday in Austin, Texas though he has a few more dates scheduled in July and August: July 2009
31 - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion

August 2009
1 - Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival
2 - Buffalo, NY - Rocks the Harbor

He says to LiveDaily: “All my music is really inspired by life and experience and things that I see or do or go through. All my songs are taken from that. What determines the way the song sounds, whether it’s a pop song or a piano ballad, or a country song or a punk rock song, it’s really something that just happens on its own. Like, when I’m sitting with the instrument, it’s whatever mood you’re in. Like, when you’re in a mood to have banana pudding for dessert or, like, apple pie. You don’t really know what inspires you to feel the way you do when you want apple pie versus banana pudding. It’s kind of the same with like writing a song. It’s just something that happens. So, I think, obviously, going back to me as a kid, country music being everywhere in Greenville, Texas, in the little town I grew up in, on the radio and in friend’s trucks and stuff like that. That obviously had a great impact on me, so stylistically I guess I was destined to write songs that had that sound at some point. But lyrically, it’s hard. I don’t think there’s a real lyrical theme to the album because the songs were written over such a long period of time. But they all definitely deal with real people and situations, kind of like characters that live in more of the shadows of society.”

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