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James Franco talks “not quite Motown” debut LP
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 5 October 2012
Actor, writer, director, poet, artist, scholar and alleged polymath James Franco is also in a band known as Dadd (not this one, by the way) just FYI, and is recording a long playing Daddy debut with his primary collaborator Tim O’Keefe.
He’s been talking about the project to Billboard. “We have another project that we’re working on”, he says, adding: “I guess if we complete all the songs it’ll be a full-length album, ten to twelve songs. We’re working on that right now. It’s a little different; the style’s not quite Motown but has a similar vibe”.
So, there you are. You can read more of Franco’s fascinating comments – such as those about ‘Crime’, his studio duet with Smokey Robinson on Daddy’s first EP ‘Motorcity’ – via the Billboard interview.
Or alternatively, just listen to ‘Crime’ now. It’s different, I’ll give it that:
