Soul Asylum have announced their 13th album, Slowly But Shirley. Recorded live with producer Steve Jordan, the LP will be out on September 27. Check out its lead single, ‘Freak Accident’, below.
“It’s built from experience and pain and shame,” Dave Pirner said of the track in a press release. “The joke’s always on me, let’s just put it that way. Everyone makes mistakes.”
The record’s title and cover pay homage to the pioneering drag racer Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney. “When I was a kid, I loved drag racing,”Pirner explained. “And she was the first woman of drag race. It meant a lot to me that she was willing to stand up against all these men in racing. My manager called her up, and she gave us her blessing, which means a whole lot to me because she was a childhood hero.”
