Foo Fighters' Shiflett enjoys being "Lost At Sea"

The Cadillac Three's Jaren Johnston produced. Shiflett also will do tour dates behind the disc.

"Lost at Sea" finds Shiflett blurring the lines between his last two albums: "West Coast Town"(2017) and its honky-tonk homage and "Hard Lessons," (2019) more of a rock record.

Shiflett recorded the majority of the new album in Nashville, working with artists including fellow guitar slingers Charlie Worsham, Tom Bukovac, and Nathan Keeterl. Shiflett wrote songs with Kendell Marvel and Cody Jinks.

"We wrote a lot of these songs during the lockdown," said Shiflett, who spent much of the pandemic at home in Southern California. "Then I began making trips to Nashville to work with Jaren. He and I have a lot of overlap, in terms of the music we like. We made a guitar-centric record that encapsulates everything I've been listening to over the years, from the most country songs I've ever recorded to punk rock and even songs that sound like a California version of The Clash."

"Damage Control" will be the next single. Straying further from the country influence than most of the album, "Damage Control" is the only old tune that Johnston and Shiflett included on "Lost at Sea."

"All the other tunes were written in the months leading up to recording, but when Jaren and I were sorting out which songs to do he mentioned something about The Clash, and I remembered this old one I'd demoed about 15 years prior," said Shiflett. With its layers of reverb, pulsing percussion, and Echoplex tape delay, "Damage Control" went through a number of versions before reaching its final form in the studio with Johnston.

"I love that the musical inspiration on this one was late-stage Clash, but we wound up layering it with banjos and what-not. Definitely takes it somewhere else. Ska-mericana?" Shiflett said. "There's nothing better than when influences converge taking you places you never expected."

Shiflett previously released the singles "Dead And Gone" and "Black Top White Lines."

The track list is:
Dead And Gone
Overboard
Black Top White Lines
Damage Control
Weigh You Down
Burn The House Down
Where'd Everybody Go?
I Don't Trust My Memories Anymore
Carrie Midnight Texas Queen
Parties

Tour dates are:
Aug. 17 - Novato, CA - Hopmonk Tavern
Aug. 18 - Half Moon Bay, CA - Old Princeton Landing
Aug. 19 - Santa Cruz, CA - Moe's Alley
Aug. 24 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up
Aug. 25 - Venice, CA - Venice West
Aug. 26 - Bakersfield, CA - Temblor Brewing Co.
Sept. 14 - Chicago, IL - Fitzgerald's