'Nobody's Daughter' was the fourth and final studio album by the American alternative rock band Hole, and was released on 23 April 2010 by Mercury Records, but it was initially conceived as a Courtney Love solo project to follow-up her 2004 debut solo album 'America's Sweetheart'. In September 2005, after violating a legal drug probation, Love was sentenced to a six-month program in the Beau Monde lock-down rehabilitation center, from which she was released after serving half the sentenced time, and she completed the other three months under house arrest. While she was in rehab, her friend and producer Linda Perry visited and supported her by encouraging her to write new songs, giving her a Martin acoustic guitar. Shortly after her release from rehab in November 2005, Love revealed the working titles of several of the tracks she'd composed, which included 'My Bedroom Walls', 'The Depths Of My Despair', 'Sad But True', and 'How Dirty Girls Get Clean', and she entered the studio with Perry and Billy Corgan to record a series of demos. In January 2006 Love began recording the album at the Village Studios in Los Angeles, with Perry producing and Corgan arranging, and further titles planned for the record would include 'Wildfire', 'Never Go Hungry Again', and an anti-cocaine track entitled 'Loser Dust', alongside another song 'Letter To God', which was an old Perry solo composition. Several guest musicians contributed to the recording sessions, including Anthony Rossomando of Dirty Pretty Things and Ben Gordon of The Dead 60s. On 29 April 2006 Love made a surprise appearance at a Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center benefit with Corgan and Perry, where she performed acoustic versions of the new songs 'Sunset Marquis' and 'Pacific Coast Highway'. In early 2007, Love announced she planned to mix the tentatively titled 'How Dirty Girls Get Clean' album in London with Danton Supple, best known for his work with Coldplay, but in May 2008, after several attempts at recording the album with Corgan and Perry failed to reach fruition, Love announced she was planning to scrap the record and begin reshaping it with guitarist Micko Larkin, who had joined her backing band. Later that year she hired Michael Beinhorn, with whom she had worked on Hole's 1998 album 'Celebrity Skin', to produce the record, and he put together a new backing band, consisting of guitarist Larkin, bassist Shawn Dailey, and drummer Stu Fisher. Recording sessions began in Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California in January 2009, and continued there for a number of months, and in June it was reported by the NME that Love intended to release the re-titled 'Nobody's Daughter' album as a Hole record, and the solo album was scrapped. Luckily the tapes survived, and eventually leaked online, giving fans a chance to hear what many of them have since lauded as some of her best ever work.
Track listing
01 Pacific Coast Highway
02 For Once In Your Life
03 Letter To God
04 Stand Up Motherfucker
05 Loser Dust
06 Dirty Girls
07 Never Go Hungry Again
08 Nobody's Daughter
09 Happy Ending Story
10 Car Crash
11 Sunset Marquis
12 Samantha
The cover photograph is by David LaChapelle and logo design by Jorden Haley.
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