Fiona Apple May Have a New Album in 2011

Is a new Fiona Apple album finally on the way? Twenty Four Bit spotted a profile of drummer Charley Drayton in which Drayton says he's working on Apple's next album. In the article, Modern Drummer writes that the album, which Dayton is currently "playing [on], co-producing, and mixing," is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2011.

Apple's last album, 2005's Extraordinary Machine, had to be re-recorded after disputes with Epic Records over its commercial viability. Apple didn't resurface until she released a pair of tracks on a Cy Coleman tribute album last year. In June of this year, Apple and producer Jon Brion collaborated on the song "So Sleepy," which was written by children in the 826LA non-profit organization.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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