Growing up in New Jersey, the 36-year-old’s earliest musical memories were hymns his mother played around their home, among them redemption songs “Amazing Grace” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.”Īs Fallon grew older, she introduced him to folk music. People would kill to be in your shoes.’”įallon resolved to embrace his good fortune, leave the anger and bitterness behind and look back to move forward.įallon’s next sonic step is influenced in a large part by reflecting upon his past. “‘You have all these people that come and see you and you have this successful band and you’re mad about everything. You need to take a break and you’re a little bit ungrateful, actually’ – that’s what I thought about myself,” he said. I felt like we lost a little bit of touch with where things were going,” Fallon said in a recent telephone interview.Īs the band’s members discussed a hiatus after wrapping the tour for 2014’s “Get Hurt” – a polarizing release inspired by Fallon’s divorce that broke out of the band’s Springsteen-meets-Bouncing-Souls punk shell – the singer had what he described as a “come to Jesus” with himself. I was even mad about the band getting so big. I was mad at myself, mad at my situation. With the Gaslight Anthem, Brian Fallon sold out venues around the world and shared the stage with icons including Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen.īut by the end of 2014, he wasn’t happy about it.

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