Bernie Taupin The Legendary Songwriter Releases His New Album The Sea Has No Mercy On October 23

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HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM IN ALMOST 40 YEARS - AND HIS FIRST TO BE ENTIRELY SELF-WRITTEN

Bernie Taupin is one of the all-time greatest storytelling songwriters, and his creative connection with his friend and cultural icon Elton John is one of the most successful and enduring partnerships in music history. Yet despite his myriad array of accomplishments, Bernie Taupin is now set to achieve something he has never done before with his new solo album The Sea Has No Mercy, which will be released on October 23rd via Vertigo Records and MCA Nashville.

Remarkably, The Sea Has No Mercywill be the first album that he has entirely self-written. As such, it's the soundtrack to his own life - a record that presents a master craftsman at his most personal, distilling 76 years of lived experience into 10 songs that are reflective and revealing, vivid and thoughtful, sometimes hushed, sometimes joyful, sometimes elegiac.

He describes the album as a late-life manifesto. It's only natural, therefore, that it was inspired by his acclaimed 2023 autobiography Scattershot and a retrospective documentary that has been in development for a few years. Ultimately, the three projects will be innately interlinked.

Taupin says, "I couldn't have made this album as a younger man. I couldn't have written any of these songs. They're all completely indicative of Bernie Taupin at 76-years-old. They need the life behind them. Everything on this record is hugely personal. Every single line, every word, means something to me, whether from a past, present or storytelling perspective."

The album dispenses with volume and sparkles in favour of warm, atmospheric folk informed by intimacy and closeness. The project was recorded in Nashville with producer Frank Liddell, along with a core band composed of Music City legends: guitarist Adam Wright, bassist Glen Worf and keyboard player Michael Rojas - a trio collectively nicknamed The Tennessee Stone Cutters. It also features guest vocal appearances from Americana superstar Brandi Carlile and Bernie's daughter, Georgey, as well as contributions from country legend Lee Ann Womack, the Jeremy Jordan Ensemble and percussion master Jay Bellerose.

The title track and first single introduces an album which stands as Bernie Taupin'scrowning glory. It's a meditative, almost hymnal reflection in which Bernie's gritty, lived-in baritone faces up to the incidents in his life's journey that he'd prefer to forget. But it's the pain of personal truth that gives this song its heart.

He adds, "The sea is the most intimidating, frightening element on earth. Fires, earthquakes and tornadoes are all destructive, but nothing is more terrifying than the loneliness of the open sea. But it fascinates me, and things that fascinate me are subjects I want to write about. In the song, I use the sea as a metaphor for too many past experiences that weren't particularly positive. I align that with the intimidation of the sea. There's a wonderful interplay there."

The Sea Has No Mercy is available to pre-order / pre-save HERE . In addition to its digital release, it will be released on vinyl and CD.

Having enjoyed phenomenal success in an enduring career that spans almost sixty years,The Sea Has No Mercy proves that Bernie Taupin's life-long creativity is as strong as ever - and there's much more to come soon, too. He has continued to collaborate on new songs for Elton John, while his eagerly anticipated documentary project continues to take shape, and his bestselling, critically acclaimed Scattershotmemoir has been optioned for development.

Tracklisting

1. Fisherman
2. Old Church Road
3. The Sea Has No Mercy
4. Elephant Boy
5. Ghosts of Greater Men
6. Joker
7. Come On California featuring Brandi Carlile
8. The Favor
9. Old Dog
10. One Hundred Ways featuring Georgey Devon Taupin

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