Nashville-based band Justin Webb & The Noise is excited to announce the release of their debut album, Stupid Young out on October 4 via Austin’s Chicken Ranch Records. The album was produced by Ben Folds/Hayes Carll bassist Jared Reynolds and engineered by Joe Costa at 3Sirens Studio in Nashville.
Today, the band is thrilled to share their new single, “A Rose To Chew On,” which debuted at Glide Magazine and is now available on all streaming platforms for any playlist shares.
On the track, Justin Webb tells Glide Magazine:
“I’m pretty sure we used the first take of 'A Rose to Chew On.' We were locked in at that point. It was the middle of the day, and we tracked seven of our songs that day all together in one room. No click - just feeling everything out. We had found ourselves wanting to end every practice with 'A Rose To Chew On,' because we all love playing it so much. The song itself had probably transformed the most of all our songs since its demo days. I remember the feeling in the room, just pure energy.”
Webb recalls that the song had him “thinking about being stuck in a destructive relationship in the middle of nowhere, between two people with bad habits that can't help themselves. Those that do care about them know they aren't good for each other. Ultimately it's the comfort of what you know without seeing or pushing to get on the other side of it.”
“A Rose To Chew On” begins like a shambling blues/country bar band ode to a lover who “crawls just like a beat up truck” and “talks cause she’s had too much.” But, with the first chorus – “I don’t mind what the old birds say” – Webb and his crackerjack band of Nashville/Murfreesboro modern garage vets ignite a track with all the propulsion and soaring atmospherics of 1979-Clash. Except Mick Jones would never have laid on the Ebow hook, reminiscent of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” that guitarist Ben Moore stitches through “Rose.”
“I don’t want you to go/But I don’t wanna go back,” Webb rails, recognizing just how volatile this relationship is. “The only straight way is up/But I’ve lost the track/Just a few more months and/We’ll see where we’re at….”
Besides Webb and Moore, The Noise comprises a rhythm section of Ben’s brothers Bryan Moore on drums and BJay Moore on bass alongside co-lead guitarist Will Pettus.
“A Rose To Chew On” is a good indicator of what Stupid Young captures: The sound of a good, honest rock ‘n’ roll band playing well-crafted songs in one room, with electric guitars pushing vintage tube amps hard and minimal overdubs, and nary a click track within earshot. This is a rarity nowadays.
In addition to “A Rose To Chew On,” Justin Webb & The Noise will release several additional singles this summer and fall, with tour dates planned in the South. Fans can follow the band on social media for the latest updates.