There’s living the dream, and then there’s Chris Holt’s life. The longtime Dallas singer/songwriter is a walking music documentary, splitting time as a solo artist and as a touring musician for some of his idols, including Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and, most recently, the Eagles.
Between touring and session gigs, he’s finally found the time to complete a new solo record, Across The Milky Way, due out May 9. In 2017, he first began work on a follow-up to his last record, 2016’s Stargazer. But after a good chunk was completed, he accidentally deleted all of his progress.
“It was just a blunder,” Holt says. “The whole drive got erased, I didn’t have a backup. I was so deflated that I just couldn’t bring myself to start over from scratch.”…