Let's Go Out Tonight

Never have Stigers' genre-blurring instincts been more sharply defined than on 'Let's Go Out Tonight' (his 7th album for Concord). Stigers also describes it as, "probably the most autobiographical album I've ever made. It hits so many places I've been and things I've gone through and am currently going through."

Ironically, given its deeply personal nature, 'Let's Go Out Tonight' is the first album since 2003's 'You Inspire Me' that includes no original Stigers tunes.

'Let's Go Out Tonight' is also the first of Stigers' Concord albums to completely sidestep the Great American Songbook. Instead, he surveys a vibrant cross-section of pop, folk, country and soul songwriters, ranging from Bob Dylan, Eddie Floyd and Richard Thompson to Jeff Tweedy, Hayes Carll and David Poe, whose "Everyone Loves Lovers" was crafted expressly for Stigers. The set opens with Stigers' rendition of Bob Dylan's "Things Have Changed," Dylan's Oscar-winning song from the film 'Wonder Boys'. From the Eddie Floyd canon, Stigers selected the relatively obscure "Oh How It Rained," originally recorded by Floyd in 1971. "You Are Not Alone" was written by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy for Mavis Staples. Another standout is the Neil Finn/Crowded House song, "Into Temptation," about which Stigers says, "Give me a song about sex any day of the week."