Jeff Bridges to Perform on The Colbert Report

The long-awaited Jeff Bridges solo album that grew out of the movie, which Bridges has been hyping in interviews for a year, will finally release on August 16th, titled simply “Jeff Bridges.”

Coming off like The Dude with heartbreak, Bridges’ performance in “Crazy Heart” exuded a warm, worn-in sadness—arresting enough to rewind in the middle of the movie to hear the songs a second time. For “Jeff Bridges,” the Dude collaborated with the same team behind the “Crazy Heart” songs, including songwriter/producer T Bone Burnett, as well as Stephen Bruton and John Goodwin, Greg Brown, and Bo Ramsey. Some of Bridges’ own tunes made the cut as well.

Bridges will play a series of shows when the record releases, perhaps the coolest and most Dude-like being a motorcycle rally in South Dakota. But he’ll also appear on Stephen Colbert‘s “The Colbert Report” on August 17th, continuing Colbert’s run of great musical guests of late.

Source: Death + Taxes Magazine.