![]() "These times have been trying because it’s great to reflect and you need the time to refuel and reflect, and part of the loneliness is great for output as a writer. ![]() I woke up embracing this current situation instead of being in denial and resisting." Still, he misses New York's usual bustle. "The sun is shining and I'm getting a lot done. Like everyone else, Malin says he’s had his share of ups and downs in self-isolation, but he says today is a good day. The song is a beaten down and been through all of this-but it’s going to be OK, and that's the kind of message that I definitely need right now." As much as I’m a positive mental attitude PMA guy, I always seem to connect with the underside and melancholy side of life but part of that is how you get to the bright side by embracing and facing the sadness. ![]() "When I started to play it at my shows, it kind of fell into that place and brought out a sadder thing. If there's a beautiful sad blue in a song, it just connects with me and I focus on that, and it came out naturally when I started strumming 'Crawling Back To You,'" he says. I like to take fast songs and slow them down. "I enjoy finding a way to break down a song. "When I cover something, I always try to find a way to put some of myself into it or change it up a bit," says Malin. "I like to put B-sides and extra songs on the singles that are things that I’m really inspired by." Malin’s plaintive and beautiful "Crawling Back To You," comprised of vocals, guitar and keys, illuminates the song's yearning for connection, making the ideal B-side complement to Malin's recently released upbeat rocker "Backstabbers," the first single for his forthcoming record (working title, Lust For Love) on Little Steven's Wicked Cool Records. Below, the Recording Academy has the exclusive premiere of the Malin's "Crawling Back To You" music video: From there, he added the song to his live sets before recording a slower, stripped-down and heartrending version earlier this year. When Tom died a week later, it was just such a shocker." With "Crawling Back To You" embedded in Malin’s spirit, it resurfaced when he played it at Petty Fest-an annual tribute concert to Tom Petty whose proceeds go to charity. "Ironically, it turned out horribly that, sadly, that was his last gig ever. "They’d always been an insanely great band, but there was some kind of magic there," he says. It was the best Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performance Malin had ever seen. Sometimes, with music, when people sing or say something that connects, it really lets you know you’re not alone and that you’re going to be all right." "When he sang that line in the beautiful California night with all the stars out, I don’t know why but it just hit me and I got a little chill. "I loved Wildflowers but I’d never focused on the words and the sentiment and the whole spirit of that song until I was at the Hollywood Bowl seeing them play," says Malin over the phone from his New York apartment where he’s been self-isolating for the last two months. While watching Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Hollywood Bowl in the fall of 2017-which tragically turned out to be their final concert due to Petty's untimely death a week later-New York singer/songwriter Jesse Malin was struck by the lyrics "most things I worry about never happen anyway" as Petty sang "Crawling Back To You" (from his '94 classic Wildflowers).
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