The right collaborator proved key in bringing about the first new Drivin N Cryin album in a decade — Live the Love Beautiful, whose “Step By Step” video (animated by DJ Edwards) is premiering exclusively below.
DNC hasn’t been entirely idle during that time on the recording front; The group did release four EPs and a remastered, retitled edition of its self-titled 1997 album during the interim since 2009’s The Great American Bubble Factory. But frontman Kevn Kinney tells Billboard the idea of another full-length was daunting. “It’s crazy, because I can do a five-song EP in four days, three days, but for some reason it takes me months to make those four more songs that turn it into an album,” Kinney notes with a laugh. “I really loved the EP thing, and I was trying to wrap my head around making an album again. It’s crazy, but that’s why you have a producer — and luckily I did not have to produce this one.”
