Tom Petty Keyboardist's 2025 Solo Album on Vinyl LP!
Benmont Tench's 2025 album, The Melancholy Season, is his second solo record after four decades at the keyboards in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Released on Dark Horse Records, The Melancholy Season is Tench's true arrival as a singer-songwriter, without compromise or doubt. It was produced by Jonathan Wilson (an acclaimed singer-songwriter and touring guitarist for Roger Waters), Father John Misty and Margo Price. The album's core studio band included Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith on guitar, Sebastian Steinberg of Soul Coughing on bass and Wilson on drums, among other instruments, with contributions from Jenny O. and Sara Watkins. Tench "couldn't be happier" about finding a home for The Melancholy Season at Dark Horse Records, saying it's "an emotionally resonant label for me. And they have George's music, Cat Stevens, Joe Strummer – these are writers. To be in that company, it's perfect." Standard black vinyl.
Features
- Vinyl LP
- Gatefold Jacket
- Made in the Czech Republic
Selections
Side A:
- The Melancholy Season
- Pledge
- Rattle
- Not Enough
- If She Knew
- I Will Not Follow You Down
Side B:
- Under the Starlight
- Back
- Like Crystal
- Wobbles (Trio with Vocal Accompaniment)
- You, Again
- The Drivin Man
- Dallas