Though Chris Shiflett gets to rock out on guitar in front of thousands of fans at mega music festivals and sold-out stadiums around the world with the Foo Fighters, he’s equally as excited to bust out a well-worn acoustic guitar and play alt-country and Americana songs inside more intimate clubs.
He’s fortunate, he said, to have a foot in both worlds and though he’s earned a certain level of notoriety, at his core he’s just a huge music fan.
Aside from being in arguably one of the biggest rock bands on the planet, Shiflett, who came up in the punk rock world in bands like No Use for a Name and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, has enjoyed a fulfilling solo career. He’s got three albums under his belt, including the forthcoming “Lost at Sea,” which will be out on Oct. 20 via Blue Élan Records. While on a brief break in the Foo Fighters’ busy touring schedule, Shiflett will bring his new music to the Belly Up in Solana Beach on Thursday, Aug. 24 and The Venice West in Venice on Friday, Aug. 25.
“We’ve been playing about four songs off the record live so far, but we should probably get down a couple more,” Shiflett said during a phone interview from his Los Angeles home. “It has been really fun. It’s interesting to play a song nobody’s heard before. If you can get a crowd to react to a song no one has ever heard, it’s like, all right, this could be good.”
So far, he’s peppered in the rippin’ guitar-forward rock track “Black Top White Lines,” which Shiflett wrote with album producer and The Cadillac Three vocalist-guitarist Jaren Johnston and Brothers Osborne songwriter-guitarist John Osborne; the country twang-filled “Dead and Gone” featuring the talents of Charlie Worsham (Dierks Bentley, Old Crow Medicine Show) on dobro and Tom Bukovac (Bob Seger, Willie Nelson) on guitar; as well as and the Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers-influenced, “Overboard.”
While his first two albums, 2017’s “West Coast Town” and…
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