The new Charlie Mars album was released today. The sessions for Blackberry Light began at Austin’s Texas Treefort Studios in August 2011, with producer Billy Harvey (Bob Schneider). The roster of players includes: keyboardist John Ginty (Santana, Citizen Cope), bassists George Reiff (Ian Moore, Steve Poltz) and Dave Monzie (Fiona Apple), and drummers J.J. Johnson (John Mayer, Tedeschi Trucks Band) and Dony Wynn (Robert Plant, Robert Palmer). Mars explains that he was inspired by Daniel Lanois’ work with Bob Dylan, Ron Sexsmith, and Emmylou Harris, noting, ’It’s not just less is more. Less can be massive.  When you find that special place of less, everything just opens up.  Sometimes I’ll think we’re doing so little, we should do more, but then it’s like, let’s do less and see what happens.’

Relix.com has just premiered a video on the creation of the new record, which can be found right here.