Ben Harper - Wide Open Light

Wide Open Light is the seventeenth studio album by American singer songwriter Ben Harper, released in June 2023 via Chrysalis Records.

“‘Wide Open Light’ is a family of songs I’ve written. I’ve selected them with the care one might put into a personal photo album. To that effect, I’d call it a sonic family photo album, each track a close relative to the next. The story behind this record is simple. I have been writing songs now for over 30 years. It’s what I long to do, love to do, and at times feel I need to do, and hope to continue doing until the ink runs dry and the notes fade. But for now, ‘Wide Open Light’. Deliberately minimalist, the songs themselves do as much of the heavy lifting as the production. (produced by myself, and my longtime collaborators Danny Kalb and Jason Mozersky),” says Harper.

The lead single from the album was “Yard Sale" featuring Jack Johnson, and the album is very much stripped back with a lot of the songs backed by only acoustic guitar.

This album is on black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in the UK via Chrysalis Records.