[Pre Order] Brad Mehldau - Ride into the Sun - LP *

Release Date: August 29, 2025 Homage to the Songs of Elliott Smith on Double Vinyl LP! Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, NickelCreek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio) and John Davis; drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman, etc.); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Ride into the Sun's ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are "inspired by, and reflect, Smith's oeuvre." Also included are interpretations of Big Star's "Thirteen," which Smith also covered, and "Sunday" by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, "I look at in some ways as sort of Smith's visionary godfather." Recalling how he first got to know Smith and his music, which has been a regular par