Craig Finn of The Hold Steady will release his solo album ‘Faith In The Future‘ on September 11th and has invited fans to help produce a video for the single ‘Maggie I’ve Been Searching For Our Son‘ – a track which can be heard below.
“I had both the music and lyrics to these songs, though they changed a great deal in the studio,” Finn says of the LP.
“There’s a grandness to The Hold Steady that tends to make me write about bigger, more dramatic themes. Some of these songs are more mundane, with minor slices of life that wouldn’t best be supported by the hugeness of a rock group.”
“It wasn’t always about what we wanted to put in, but what should we leave out? We didn’t want to sermonise or moralise. Just let these songs, and characters, be.”
Finn reached out to fans on social media last week asking them to get involved in creating the promo. The song’s lyrics were made available and the results are promised in the coming weeks.