Credit: Alan MercerStephen Bishop has a very busy 2019 planned — in fact, his list of major projects goes “On and On.” The veteran singer-songwriter will be releasing a new studio album, a documentary and an autobiography this year, and also will play a variety of concerts.
Bishop’s forthcoming album, titled We’ll Talk About It Later in the Car, features what he says are “songs that should have been hits 40 years ago.” He initially planned for the album to be a collection of demos of tunes he penned early in his career, but eventually decided to make it a full-fledged studio record.
“There’s a little bit of country, pop, and a few tracks that are more brokenhearted love songs,” he explains.
Bishop says the album’s title comes from something he overheard Carrie Fisher say to someone on the phone while he was dating the late Star Wars actress.
“[S]he said to the other person, ‘Anyway, we’ll talk about it later in the car,'” he recalls. “I thought it was something to do with me, but as it turned out, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, would say that when she was mad and wanted to get out of the house.”
The phrase is repeated in the title of Bishop’s upcoming documentary We’ll Talk About It Later in the Car: The Untold Story of Stephen Bishop.
The doc features film clips and TV appearances, and examines Stephen’s songs and the impact he’s had on fans and the stars he’s worked with, including Dionne Warwick, songwriter Jimmy Webb, Richard Marx and Toto‘s Steve Lukather. The movie also focuses on Bishop’s recent 11th tour of The Philippines, where he’s hugely popular.
Bishop’s upcoming autobiography, meanwhile, is called On and Off, which he maintains will be “wild and crazy, like the life I’ve led.”
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