THE CADILLAC THREE

With a plan to deliver new music every year, unlike their namesake, they don’t have cruise control.

Clearly not ones to let the grass grow beneath their feet, Nashville’s Cadillac Three return with new album Legacy in August, just over a year since releasing their last one, Bury Me In My Boots. And if you think that’s speedy work, consider that half of the album had been laid down within days of its predecessor hitting the shops.

“We had a few songs written, like Dang If We Didn’t and Ain’t That Country, when we finished the last record,” explains drummer Neil Mason. “We were excited to get the last record out and get right back in the studio. We had shows the week the album came out last August, and then we had a few days off the following week. We booked some studio time and cut the first half of this new album, then finished it in December.”

Comprised of songs written while the band were out on the road, the self-produced Legacy was recorded in two Nashville studios 20 or so miles apart: the bulk of it in Ronnie’s Place, plus one track at The Castle – a building rumoured to have been a hideaway for legendary 1920s gangster Al Capone. And according to Mason, the band came away with a real mixed bag.

“Stuff like American Slang falls in line with things like Graffiti and White Lightning from the last record, which are similar vibe-wise. The title track is the most stripped-down song we’ve ever done, and then there’s Tennessee, which is more old-school, and we have Take Me To The Bottom that’s more soulful.”

With a UK tour in November, you would imagine that the Three (completed by frontman Jaren Johnston and bassist Kelby Ray) won’t be back in the studio any time soon. But it turns out you might be mistaken.

“We’re already starting to think about the next album!” Mason says. “We have spent a lot of our career feeling that we had more music to put out than we were putting out. We made a pact to try and put music out every year. That’s a good challenge and it keeps us creative.” RC