You cant really retire from this business, Willy Braun says.
Retiring from touring is how we always framed it.
But were still making records, and were still gonna play every now and then.
Reckless Kelly lean into short and sweet songs on their new album ‘The Last Frontier.Robert Millage*
Were not going away.
And even if we wanted to, I dont think we could.
Willy, who wrote or co-wrote every song, sees it as a concept album.
They all had to be right at three minutes long.
Musically, Reckless embrace challenges.
Tyler also played guitar on the record, as did Micky and Gary Braun of Micky and the Motorcars.
Cody had the idea to make that song a duet, Willy says.
I immediately thought of Kelly.
Its undeniably Reckless, but undeniably fresh.
The album opens with Keep Lookin Down the Road, which was released this summer as the first single.
Its a stay-focused song that Willy and Gary Braun co-wrote with Jeff Crosby.
Braun wrote Lighting in a Bottle the day he learned of Bennetts passing.
When Pinto died, Crosby called me with the bad news, Willy says.
I dont remember what time it was, but I may have had a couple of cocktails.
I wrote that tune the same night.
I had just got all banged up, but I had even made a demo of it.
So, I listened and remembered how it went, and I just went, Shit!
It was just a tip of the cap to Pinto.
At the latter, theyll once again back Earle.
