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Stuck At Home, Damien Jurado Says He's Written 3 New Albums

A songwriter beloved by songwriters, Jurado just released a new album called What's New, Tomboy? on May 1. Holed up at home in Washington state, he's furiously writing three more.
Damien Jurado released <em>What's New, Tomboy?</em> at the start of May, and says he's already written three new albums while stuck at home over the past two months.

will admit he has a bit of an addictive personality. In the past two months while stuck at home in Washington state, he's channeled that energy into songwriting. Jurado says he's already written three distinctly different albums in isolation, and that's on top of , the record he already had in the can and that just came out on May

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