Donovan Woods To Release ‘Without People’ In November

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Though artists have been off the road for much of this year due to tour cancellations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, many are making use of that time by focusing on writing and heading into the studio—or in the case of Donovan Woods, setting up shop in his own makeshift home recording studio, where he crafted his upcoming album Without People, due Nov. 6.

Woods’ fellow musicians contributed remotely to the project. He recruited co-writers including Tucker Beathard, Ashley Monroe, Barenaked Ladies’ Ed Robertson, Thomas Finchum, and Katie Pruitt (who offers a duet on “She Waits For Me To Come Back Down”). Rounding out the team are his longtime producer and collaborator James Bunton and vocal producer Todd Clark.

“This album made me think about how easy life would be without other people, and how useless it would be,” says Woods. “This is what my brain wants to write about, so I suppose my responsibility is to follow it further and further into the most fearsome feelings I’ve got.”

On Friday, Aug. 21, he’ll release the project’s lead track “Seeing Other People.”

“I dove in deeper on this album than I ever have,” says Woods. “So if we are coming to the end of something, I can say that I tried my hardest to write truthfully about the people I’ve loved and the things I did wrong, and add my little verse to the story of what it feels like to be a person.”

Without People tracklist:
1. “Without People” (Donovan Woods, Drew Jurecka)
2. “The Last Time I Saw You” (Donovan Woods, Jake Etheridge)
3. “Seeing Other People” (Donovan Woods, Dustin Christensen)
4. “We Used To” (Donovan Woods)
5. “She Waits For Me To Come Back Down feat. Katie Pruitt” (Donovan Woods, Katie Pruitt)
6. “Clean Slate” (Donovan Woods, Jeremy Spillman, Tucker Beathard)
7. “Man Made Lake” (Donovan Woods, Ed Robertson)
8. “Interlude” (Donovan Woods, Travis Wood, Tom Douglas)
9. “Lonely People feat. Rhys Lewis” (Donovan Woods, Dustin Christensen, Jessie Jo Dillon)
10. “Grew Apart” (Donovan Woods, Travis Wood, Logan Wall)
11. “Whole Way Home” (Donovan Woods, Andy Skib, Thomas Finchum)
12. “High Season” (Donovan Woods, Ashley Monroe)
13. “God Forbid” (Donovan Woods, Ed Robertson)
14. “Whatever Keeps You Going” (Donovan Woods, Logan Wall, Femke Weidema)

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