Ben Kweller Changes Horses As Well As Genre

Sometimes, people have to make music.

Since his teenage years Ben Kweller has written, created and composed endless amounts of music with some tracks still not seing the light of day.

Originally using his teen rock outfit Radish as his outlet, he swiftly moved onto a solo career that has slowly built into three brilliant albums and respect across the critical board.

Kweller recently spoke out about his newest album "Changing Horses" due out next year and, speaking to Spinner magazine, explained why this album is going to be a Country album;

"The first song on this album that I wrote was 13 years ago. Once in a while I would write one that would fit good on [2002's] 'Sha-Sha' or [2004's] 'On My Way,' but a lot of these I would say, 'Man, these are so cool and so country that they just deserve to live alone on an album with other brothers and sisters.'"

Kweller also spoke about of the earliest cuts for the record, Ballad Of Wendy Baker;

"Two days after she died, me and some friends went to this Chinese restaurant in my town and my fortune cookie said 'No one loves 'til it's gone', so I went back home to my parents house, went up to my bedroom and sat on the bed and wrote this song for her, and one of the key lines was 'no one loves 'til it's gone.' It is a song that I was saving for a certain record ... and 'Changing Horses' was the right album."

Kweller recently toured with his new material and also released an under the radar EP How Ya Lookin' Southbound? Come in... that also touched on new songs. Finishing off the the interview with Spinner, Kweller explained how he isn't worried what the fans will think;

"As far as what the audience thinks, that's not really what I'm concerned with, I just have to make music because it's the only thing I have in my life, other than my son and my wife, that makes me happy. This is my art and I have to do it the way that I want to do it, because at the end of the day, I'm the one that has to live with it."

To be honest Ben, we can't wait.