Ben played some bass on it and sent it back to me, and then I sang on it. Tucker did all of the drums in one day, and then he sent them back, and I blended a bunch of the demos into the finish drums and did more guitars. He made a few suggestions on arrangements, and then that was it. I was writing every day, then I would send it to him, and he would send them back, and then we called up Ben and showed him what we were doing. I would say within two or three weeks, it was pretty much done. Do you want to play drums and do demo drums on some of the parts?’ We’re buddies, and he doesn’t have anything to do, and I don’t have anything to do. So I called Tucker and just said, ‘Hey, I’m writing this stuff that’s pretty heavy. I wrote a couple of riffs, and I thought, well, this would be fun to sort of expand on. And I write on an electric plugged-in that’s the way I usually write. So I started just playing guitar late at night, which is when I tend to write. Then I sort of got to the point where all of that had taken its toll, and I just needed a little bit of therapy. Like staff, people with kids, trying to keep the business in a position to live through this kind of thing. I think the first few months of the pandemic we really spent trying to take care of the people around us.
So our world crumbled pretty quickly, and we were scrambling. We own a restaurant, My wife and I own a restaurant here in El Paso, and we had a record that came out in April last year. “Essentially, it was written as sort of my need for mental health care. So I’m like, “Ok, it’s going to be like singer-songwriter and acoustic.Ĭan you talk a little bit about how you demoed Daggers up and when you decided to share it out and expand it? I don’t know, I read the preamble, and it was like, personal, written during lockdown no band. That’s the best start to an interview I’ve had in a long time.” I expected something more singer-songwriter and kind of minimalist. Our heartfelt thanks to Jim Ward for taking a healthy chunk out of his afternoon last week to field a few questions for V13.ĭaggers wasn’t at all what I expected at all when I played it. If Canada can get its pandemic-riddled head out of its ass, we might even be lucky enough to see some Canadian live dates around this killer release. Written in isolation as a way to escape from the pandemic, Ward realized the songs that would become Daggers (self-described as his first solo rock record), and it’s some of his strongest material to date! Ten songs totalling over 40 minutes worth of material that is sure to please any fan of Jim’s previous two decades worth of recordings.ĭo not sleep on this record, it’s a banger from the get-go. He lives in El Paso, Texas, with his wife, where they run a restaurant together.Īlong with the help of Incubus bassist Ben Kenney and Thursday drummer Tucker Rule, Ward takes his new record Daggers into some surprising and spectacular places. Ward has also released a slew of solo albums and fronts an alt-country project, Sleepercar. From there, Ward went on to form Sparta (who released Trust The River last April).
The band released three critically acclaimed studio albums and several EPs before disbanding in 2001.
In 1994 (and at the age of 17), Jim Ward co-founded the iconic post-hardcore band At The Drive-In.
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