“Radnor has been making music for a decade, but when the pandemic hit he found himself getting "backlogged" with music. "Like a lot of people, I was frozen in place, but I had a couple guitars lying around, and my songwriting really exploded," he tells
@entertainmentweekly . "That's when I wrote 'Red' and a bunch of the songs on Eulogy."
But it wasn't until he went through a tough breakup around Thanksgiving 2021 that the upcoming album really took shape. "I couldn't be at my house in L.A. so I found myself in this weird period of exile," he says. "I was hunkering down with my dog, Nelson, in Columbus, Ohio, where I'm from. I was staying in my childhood home and reconnecting with old friends, but I was really just rocked. The breakup was very sudden, and I was angry."
When his songwriter friend Kyle Cox invited him to Nashville to make some music, Radnor knew the opportunity was what he needed to get out of his funk. While in Nashville, he also connected with musicians Jeremiah Dunlap and Cory Quintard, and the foursome began working in earnest on what they wanted to be a classic Americana folk album. "I rented an Airbnb and drove my dad's car with Nelson to Nashville, and then from mid-February to mid-March of 2022, we recorded 24 songs, and 23 ended up on the record," Radnor says. "It was such a hard moment, but out of that hard moment, it turned out to be this really healing, wonderful time."
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