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New Album ‘Handwritten’ released July 23rd 2012 on Mercury Records.

The late Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard famously defined the ingredients of a great song as “three chords and the truth”. Every songwriter knows three chords, but laying bare the truth? Now that can be an altogether trickier affair

On January 18, 2012, The Gaslight Anthem piled into their old tour van and headed across the New Jersey state line for a 14 hour road trip to Nashville on their own quest for the truth. Their destination was 2806 Azalea Place, Nashville, Blackbird Studio, where the New Brunswick quartet had booked five weeks recording time with producer Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, AC/DC). Their mission: to reconnect with rock ‘n’ roll in its most feral, pure, stripped-raw form.