Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers and Scud Mountain Boys will release his debut solo studio album Sunny, I Was Wrong on April 3, 2026 via New West Records. The 11-song set was produced by Pernice and features Aimee Mann, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub. Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Webb, and includes liner notes written by Warren Zanes (author of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska). Pernice is also joined by Jim Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies, Mike Belitsky of The Sadies, Mike Evin, and Mike McKenzie as his backing band across the album. Sunny, I Was Wrong follows the 2024 Pernice Brothers album Who Will You Believe.
Pernicehas shared “The Black and the Blue,” the album’s first single. He says, “This is one of those songs that came to me so completely and quickly that it was almost like I was watching someone else write it. At first I thought the chorus chord change was too simple. Then I said aloud, ‘Don’t be a dope. Have you heard ‘Roadrunner?’ So I let the songwriting run its course. When it was done, I thought there was a pretty catchy song there.”
Sunny, I Was Wrong tallies up all of those things that get away from us: friends and lovers we haven’t seen in decades, old promises broken, cherished dreams forgotten, best-laid plans unrealized. Pernice says, “Making music is not always easy, but it’s still magical for me when you find that thing that makes the song pop. I don’t think I’ve made a better album than this one, or one that pops like this one. It feels like I’ve made a big leap.”
Sunny, I Was Wrong Track Listing:
Peace in Our Home
Deep into the Dawn (ft. Aimee Mann)
If You Go Back to California
Force Feed the Fire
The Black and the Blue
It Won’t Be Me (ft. Rodney Crowell)
I’d Rather Look Away (ft. Norman Blake)
Sunny, I Was Wrong
Is It Serious
Twenty-Thousand Times
It Got Away From Me (ft. Jimmy Webb)
