Rag‘n’Bone Man Announces ‘Life By Misadventure’ Album

Rag‘n’Bone Man has returned three years after his groundbreaking, award winning debut, Human with a renewed sense of purpose and a new album, Life By Misadventure.

The album’s first single, All You Ever Wanted is propelled by choppy rhythm guitars and a restlessness that we’re all currently feeling.

“I’d felt sad looking around Brighton and London where I grew up…remembering all those cool places that aren’t there anymore,” said Rory Graham, aka Rag‘n’Bone Man.

His 2017 landmark debut Human was a phenomenal success; a 4x platinum album which shot to #1 week of release in the UK, became the fastest-selling album by a male artist for the entire decade and earned him BRIT and Ivor Novello Awards.

Rag‘n’Bone Man tore up the rule book and went to Nashville to write and record what would become Life By Misadventure, returning to the UK just before the pandemic first erupted.

While a dose of heavy blues and soul lives within some of these new tunes, the majority of this new album finds Rag‘n’Bone Man taking a huge step forward as an artist, a songwriter, and a singer.

The bulk of the album was produced and recorded by Grammy Award-winning producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Elizondo (Eminem, 50 Cent, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morissette) at his studio just outside Nashville. One song was even recorded in Rag‘n’Bone Man’s garage.

The album has been recorded purposefully like a live album. Long time collaborators Ben Jackson-Cook (keys, co-songwriter and co-producer of the album), Bill Banwell (bass, and co-songwriter) and Desri Ramus (backing vocals) are joined by drummer Daru Jones (Lazaretto-Jack White) and guitarist Wendy Melvoin who joined Prince’s Revolution at the age of 19.

“We had quite a time to live with the songs this time around,” Rag‘n’Bone Man explains. “Too often, how I’d done things before, was that we’d written a song and I had to sing it the same day, and that was the version we’d use on the album. This way, it was far easier to get real emotion into the music.”

Life By Misadventure will be released on April 23.