What do you do when you have a lot of great song ideas that don’t fit in musically with what predominantly helps you pay the bills? You do a solo project, of course! That’s exactly what Patrick Mulroy has done with his new album Other People’s Houses, a bunch of songs that he had been working on that didn’t quite fit in with the sound of his band, Boston heartland rock outfit Grain Thief. Mulroy is an extremely creative and productive songwriter, and he one day realized that he had written a bunch of songs that he was pleased with, but he knew they weren’t right for the band. Conveniently, the pandemic and its associated lockdowns came along, which offered him the opportunity to finally put these songs down on tape and make something of them. Contextualizing the album for us, Mulroy s...