Benmont Tench

Benmont Tench is a founding member of <a href="spotify:artist:4tX2TplrkIP4v05BNC903e" data-name="Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers">Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers</a> and one of contemporary music’s finest organ players, piano players, anything- with-keys players. In addition to all of the Heartbreakers recordings, Tench has played on records by <a href="spotify:artist:7crPfGd2k81ekOoSqQKWWz" data-name="Stevie Nicks">Stevie Nicks</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5W5bDNCqJ1jbCgTxDD0Cb3" data-name="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7oPftvlwr6VrsViSDV7fJY" data-name="Green Day">Green Day</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:74ASZWbe4lXaubB36ztrGX" data-name="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7mEIug7XUlQHikrFxjTWes" data-name="Neil Diamond">Neil Diamond</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:25IG9fa7cbdmCIy3OnuH57" data-name="The Chicks">The Chicks</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4WPY0N74T3KUja57xMQTZ3" data-name="The Replacements">The Replacements</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0nJUwPwC9Ti4vvuJ0q3MfT" data-name="John Prine">John Prine</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7wCjDgV6nqBsHguQXPAaIM" data-name="Waylon Jennings">Waylon Jennings</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5ujCegv1BRbEPTCwQqFk6t" data-name="John Fogerty">John Fogerty</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2BGRfQgtzikz1pzAD0kaEn" data-name="Elvis Costello">Elvis Costello</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:22bE4uQ6baNwSHPVcDxLCe" data-name="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a>, and Johnny Cash just to name a few. Jimmy Iovine, man of many hats and former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers&#39; producer, puts it this way: &#34;If you want a track to sound better, you just put Benmont&#39;s part higher in the mix.”

Benmont Tench’s second solo LP The Melancholy Season will be released March 7, 2024 on Dark Horse Records. The Melancholy Season is Benmont Tench&#39;s true arrival as a singer-songwriter, without compromise or doubt. It was produced by Jonathan Wilson–an acclaimed singer-songwriter and touring guitarist for Roger Waters who has worked on career-defining albums for <a href="spotify:artist:0CDUUM6KNRvgBFYIbWxJwV" data-name="Dawes">Dawes</a>, Father John Misty and <a href="spotify:artist:09yvLritEUxHrzx5TlFvbl" data-name="Margo Price">Margo Price</a>–with an attention to the space and intimacy where the best songs breathe and resonate.