Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Studio album by EverlastWikipedia
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Sep 10, 2026
EverlastGUEST
Coming back from that was... physically like you know because i made this record and then i almost died and the record came out and i had to build myself again to get back out there and take advantage of it and really you know turn it into something.
EverlastGUEST
Cause when Whitey Ford sings the blues came out, that was back when numbers mattered a lot.
EverlastGUEST
Yeah.
EverlastGUEST
And we, we, we sold 3000 records the first week, which was horrid.
Tyler JenkeHOST
By the time they'd hit the big time, one member of the group, Everlast, had already gone solo with a debut album in 1990, having previously emerged as a member of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate.
Tyler JenkeHOST
But once House of Pain called it quits in 1996, Everlast went solo once again, with albums like 1998's Whitey Ford Sings the Blues going top 10 in the US.
Tyler JenkeHOST
He even took home a Grammy in 2000 thanks to Put Your Lights On, a collaboration with Santana which is still a track I go back to regularly.
Tyler JenkeHOST
However, while albums would come relatively regularly, his most recent record, 2018's Whitey Ford's House of Pain was his last for some time, with live shows being largely put by the wayside and new music emerging only rarely.
7 MINS LATER
Tyler JenkeHOST
So I guess, you know, like following that sort of journey from where you sort of, you know, you get signed, I think it was what, 1990, you released your first record.
Tyler JenkeHOST
Then obviously there's House of Pain, which I'm not going to lean too much on.
Tyler JenkeHOST
But obviously after House of Pain wraps up, what is it that makes you decide to sort of, you know, go solo again and sort of do like Whitey Ford sings The Blues, which I guess is where Everlast really kicked off in the public eye.
Tyler JenkeHOST
Like what was that sort of decision like for you?
EverlastGUEST
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EverlastGUEST
I was kinda in the state of like, well, let's see if anybody wants these songs when my good friend, old dear friend, Devonne Styler just said, "Look, man, I've been listening to country radio driving my lady back and forth to work, and I hear a whole lot of Whitey Ford Sings the Blues going on out there.
EverlastGUEST
You should go out there and, and make a record." And I was like I knew, it all just kind of fell into place.
EverlastGUEST
Wolf was like one of the few cats I really know well out there, so I j- and we had spoken once many years ago about perhaps doing some work together, and I just called him up, said, "You wanna make a record?" Next thing I know I'm in Nashville and, you know, we're writing like maniacs.
30 MINS LATER
EverlastGUEST
That's, that w- they spent, you know ...
EverlastGUEST
It took a lot of money to make that much money.
EverlastGUEST
Um, Tommy Boy hated Whitey Ford Sings the Blues when we turned it in.
EverlastGUEST
That's no lie.