Dear Life

"There's something about this record," Benson says, describing his Third Man Records debut album DEAR LIFE. "A friend of mine called it "life-affirming." I thought it was a joke at first but then realized, well, it's about life and death for sure. I don't know if that's positive or optimistic or whatever, but that's what's going on with me." Brendan Benson finds himself in an enviable spot as he enters the third decade of a remarkably creative, consistently idiosyncratic career; an accomplished frontman, musician, songwriter, producer, band member, husband, and dad. Benson's seventh solo album, DEAR LIFE is this consummate polymath's most inventive and upbeat work thus far, an 11- track song cycle about life, love, family, fatherhood, and the pure joy of making music. Produced and almost entirely performed by Benson at his own Readymade Studio in Nashville, the album sees the Michigan-born, Nashville-based artist (and co-founder, with Jack White, of The Raconteurs) reveling in a more m