Michael Weatherly sings TV Guide 19/10/09

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Exclusive: Michael Weatherly Sings! by Chris Willman October 19, 2009 12:48 PM EST The second NCIS soundtrack (available Nov. 3) is mostly made up of exclusive cuts featured in the current seventh season, including Bob Dylan’s “California,” an outtake from the mid-’60s Bringing It All Back Home sessions that was widely bootlegged but never officially released until now, along with tracks by Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp, Norah Jones, Joss Stone and others. But Michael Weatherly’s "Bitter and Blue" may be the main attraction for serious NCIS-aholics. The artist also known as Tony DiNozzo first picked up the guitar at 15 and started writing songs to expunge his feelings while his parents were getting divorced, then realized that—hey!—“girls like music,” he says. “But they didn’t so much like the music I liked. Watching someone badly sing Elvis Costello, it’s painful for them.” His “very long, tragic attempt at pop stardom” picked up when he started busking on NYC subway platforms, making $100–$150 a day. Eventually he recorded over 50 songs in a studio and put together a band that played clubs like Manhattan’s Limelight while seeking a deal. When he found work as an actor in the ’90s, Weatherly abandoned his rock-star dreams, but he kept writing songs. “Bitter and Blue” was penned at a rare low ebb. He had just broken up with his fiancée, Dark Angel costar Jessica Alba, and was traveling to New York on weekends to see his son (from his marriage to ex–Loving costar Amelia Heinle) while working on the not-so-wildly-popular first season of NCIS in Los Angeles. For more than two hours, Weatherly serenaded TV Guide Magazine with original songs as well as the Squeeze/Crowded House/Nick Lowe chestnuts that influenced him. He coulda been a contender. But “sometimes you’re very glad certain things didn’t materialize,” he says. “Somebody might’ve thought, ‘He’s not very good, but maybe he’s marketable in some Backstreet Boys way.’ If some marketing dude had cottoned onto me when I was in my early twenties, holy s--t, that would’ve been a disaster.” But there’s an alternate universe where the road not taken was driven down after all. “There’s a certain delusional part of me that very much believes I have six albums out,” Weatherly admits. “I’m almost surprised when I go into [L.A.’s] Amoeba Records and it’s, ‘Oh, they don’t have my album. That’s odd! Well, sold out, I guess.’” To hear an excerpt of Michael Weatherly's "Bitter and Blue," click here. And to read more about the NCIS soundtrack, pick up the new issue of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands October 22!

Exclusive: Michael Weatherly Sings!

by Chris Willman October 19, 2009 12:48 PM EST

The second NCIS soundtrack (available Nov. 3) is mostly made up of exclusive cuts featured in the current seventh season, including Bob Dylan’s “California,” an outtake from the mid-’60s Bringing It All Back Home sessions that was widely bootlegged but never officially released until now, along with tracks by Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp, Norah Jones, Joss Stone and others.

But Michael Weatherly’s "Bitter and Blue" may be the main attraction for serious NCIS-aholics. The artist also known as Tony DiNozzo first picked up the guitar at 15 and started writing songs to expunge his feelings while his parents were getting divorced, then realized that—hey!—“girls like music,” he says. “But they didn’t so much like the music I liked. Watching someone badly sing Elvis Costello, it’s painful for them.” His “very long, tragic attempt at pop stardom” picked up when he started busking on NYC subway platforms, making $100–$150 a day. Eventually he recorded over 50 songs in a studio and put together a band that played clubs like Manhattan’s Limelight while seeking a deal.

When he found work as an actor in the ’90s, Weatherly abandoned his rock-star dreams, but he kept writing songs. “Bitter and Blue” was penned at a rare low ebb. He had just broken up with his fiancée, Dark Angel costar Jessica Alba, and was traveling to New York on weekends to see his son (from his marriage to ex–Loving costar Amelia Heinle) while working on the not-so-wildly-popular first season of NCIS in Los Angeles.

For more than two hours, Weatherly serenaded TV Guide Magazine with original songs as well as the Squeeze/Crowded House/Nick Lowe chestnuts that influenced him. He coulda been a contender. But “sometimes you’re very glad certain things didn’t materialize,” he says. “Somebody might’ve thought, ‘He’s not very good, but maybe he’s marketable in some Backstreet Boys way.’ If some marketing dude had cottoned onto me when I was in my early twenties, holy s--t, that would’ve been a disaster.”

But there’s an alternate universe where the road not taken was driven down after all. “There’s a certain delusional part of me that very much believes I have six albums out,” Weatherly admits. “I’m almost surprised when I go into [L.A.’s] Amoeba Records and it’s, ‘Oh, they don’t have my album. That’s odd! Well, sold out, I guess.’”

To hear an excerpt of Michael Weatherly's "Bitter and Blue," click here. And to read more about the NCIS soundtrack, pick up the new issue of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands October 22!

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