Summary: <br><br> <a href="http://allenthompsonmusic.com" target="_blank">Allen Thompson Band</a>‘s new album, Brace Yourself, is still kept under top-secret guard, but the stories leading to the title seem surreal. Thompson and band mate, Clint Maine, both broke their backs in separate accidents within a month of each other. The following year helped them expand their sound and get weirder, as they describe. Thompson called on a slew of music friends to contribute to the record, including the first single, a <a href="http://amzn.to/2chJt8u" target="_blank">duet with Elizabeth Cook</a>, “Long Time Thinkin’,” out now.<br> Always know about your new favorite band by clicking your favorite “Subscribe” link below!<br> Automated Transcript. Hilarity ensues.<br><br> Welcome to country friend rock I’m your host. Slan Spencer this week Paul Allen Thompson a country<br><br> fried rock alum from our very first season comes back via a little bit of a touchy cell<br><br> phone connection. It’s Alan Thompson of the Alan Thompson band. Their new album coming in the next<br><br> year. Brace yourself.<br><br> My guest today on Country fried rock is Country Rock and now my personal<br><br> buddy Alan Thompson. Welcome.<br> Hey it’s going to be here.<br> So I’m thinking you know not to be trite or silly or anything but in your case it’s good to be<br><br> here on a lot of different levels.<br> Yes. KEITH RICHARDS I say it’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.<br><br> There’s definitely been a long hard few years for not just me and<br><br> everyone in the band.<br><br> We did a lot of really adult stuff this last couple years.<br><br> So about a year ago I went to the swimming Percy Priest Lake and there’s these<br><br> really talk with them that we’ve grown up the mountain river right on the river I’d always go<br><br> swimming with comfort and stuff.<br><br> And so I was doing what I normally do. And you did it<br><br> wrong and broke my back. I’m not really sure because of the 50<br><br> foot drop the 50 feet of water. So there wasn’t really like anything<br><br> hard there for the Impac other than just the impact. I think<br><br> probably it was one of the reflex thing where my<br><br> obliques and back muscles tensed up before I even hit the water and<br><br> crushed like 12 vertebrae.<br> Holy cow. Thankfully there were people there and they were able to get you out of the water.<br> Yeah. Because that was the one at the bottom of your rib cage. You know I thought I<br><br> had the wind knocked out of me because all the pain is on my diaphragm and so I ran back to the<br><br> boat.<br><br> It was cold so I was trying to climb up the ladder that I realized my arms and legs were together<br><br> and something had happened that was bad.<br><br> I stood up for about a month after that just try to recover hey this is<br><br> something you listen to country fried rock.<br><br> Look for new stuff from us. THOMPSON You got got. Our new single long time thinking will<br><br> be on all your favorite music playing apps on September 9th.<br> Holy cow. So a medical catastrophe like that is something<br><br> nobody ever wish for but as an independent musician I mean it’s almost<br><br> worse because then you’re out of work as well.<br> Yeah there was no day job bartending there was no playing. I mean I had to relearn how<br><br> to hold a guitar on my back. Couple of months after I got out. And you<br><br> know on top of that I didn’t have inherent. So I am just getting bill after bill after bill<br><br> after bill and getting more and more scared every day. It was it was tough. It was really<br><br> tough. Luckily as far as the medical bill part goes with the ...
