Allen Thompson Band‘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 duet with Elizabeth Cook, “Long Time Thinkin’,” out now.

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Welcome to country friend rock I’m your host. Slan Spencer this week Paul Allen Thompson a country

fried rock alum from our very first season comes back via a little bit of a touchy cell

phone connection. It’s Alan Thompson of the Alan Thompson band. Their new album coming in the next

year. Brace yourself.

My guest today on Country fried rock is Country Rock and now my personal

buddy Alan Thompson. Welcome.

Hey it’s going to be here.

So I’m thinking you know not to be trite or silly or anything but in your case it’s good to be

here on a lot of different levels.

Yes. KEITH RICHARDS I say it’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.

There’s definitely been a long hard few years for not just me and

everyone in the band.

We did a lot of really adult stuff this last couple years.

So about a year ago I went to the swimming Percy Priest Lake and there’s these

really talk with them that we’ve grown up the mountain river right on the river I’d always go

swimming with comfort and stuff.

And so I was doing what I normally do. And you did it

wrong and broke my back. I’m not really sure because of the 50

foot drop the 50 feet of water. So there wasn’t really like anything

hard there for the Impac other than just the impact. I think

probably it was one of the reflex thing where my

obliques and back muscles tensed up before I even hit the water and

crushed like 12 vertebrae.

Holy cow. Thankfully there were people there and they were able to get you out of the water.

Yeah. Because that was the one at the bottom of your rib cage. You know I thought I

had the wind knocked out of me because all the pain is on my diaphragm and so I ran back to the

boat.

It was cold so I was trying to climb up the ladder that I realized my arms and legs were together

and something had happened that was bad.

I stood up for about a month after that just try to recover hey this is

something you listen to country fried rock.

Look for new stuff from us. THOMPSON You got got. Our new single long time thinking will

be on all your favorite music playing apps on September 9th.

Holy cow. So a medical catastrophe like that is something

nobody ever wish for but as an independent musician I mean it’s almost

worse because then you’re out of work as well.

Yeah there was no day job bartending there was no playing. I mean I had to relearn how

to hold a guitar on my back. Couple of months after I got out. And you

know on top of that I didn’t have inherent. So I am just getting bill after bill after bill

after bill and getting more and more scared every day. It was it was tough. It was really

tough. Luckily as far as the medical bill part goes with the ...