Benmont Tench's The Melancholy Season Out Now On Dark Horse Records

The Melancholy Season, the first solo record in over 10 years from legendary keyboard player and founding member of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Benmont Tench, is out now on Dark Horse Records. The album is produced by Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Margo Price, Billy Strings) and includes performances by Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), singer/songwriter Jenny O. and Sebastian Steinberg (Fiona Apple, Iron and Wine, Soul Coughing). Stream/purchase The Melancholy Season HERE.

In celebration of the new release, Tench is sharing the album’s second single “Under The Starlight” alongside a new music video. Of the song, Tench comments, “I wrote ‘Under The Starlight’ with the wonderful Donald Henry. Long after it was completed, I came across this quote from Lao Tzu, which one might find both comforting and perhaps not: ‘Tao endures. The body dies. There is no danger.’” Stream/share the video HERE.

Tench recently shared the album’s title track with a video directed by Chloe Badner (Caroline Polachek); stream/share the video HERE.

The album is available now on CD, Standard Black 1LP Vinyl, Limited Edition 1LP Color Vinyl, Digital and wherever you stream your music.

 BENMONT TENCH
THE MELANCHOLY SEASON

1. The Melancholy Season
2. Pledge
3. Rattle
4. Not Enough
5. If She Knew
6. I Will Not Follow You Down
7. Under The Starlight
8. Back
9. Like Crystal
10. Wobbles
11. You, Again
12. The Drivin’ Man
13. Dallas