This is the sound of Brian Fallon growing up.

Fallon, a Red Bank native, achieved global notoriety more than a decade ago as the frontman of bombastic classic rock revivalists Gaslight Anthem after the band had cut its teeth in New Brunswick's storied punk scene.

Those days sound a lifetime away on "Local Honey," Fallon's new solo LP released March 27. Now a 40-year-old, married father of two living in Point Pleasant, Fallon has crafted an album that is tender, hushed and achingly personal.

"I had to listen and say, 'There's no explosions. Does this hold its own?' I started to feel that it really did, and that emotionally it was hitting me harder by itself," Fallon said. "And then I had to just jump off the cliff and say, 'OK, this is time. I've been wanting to make this record for 12 years, so let's just do it.'"

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The personal revelations arrive with the first track of "Local Honey," as the lovely "When You're Ready" plays like a direct shot from the heart for the father of a 7-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter.

Sitting down for an interview over coffee at the Stay Gold Cafe and Lounge in Belmar one recent morning after dropping his son off at school, Fallon explained the impact fatherhood has had on him.

“They change everything. They change your whole perspective," he said. "It gets in your writing, in your living, in your thought process. For me, it’s made me very sort of considerate of the rest of the world, that there is a whole thing.

"Your self goes down when you have kids, it makes your self sort of matter less because you have these priorities now that are more important than whatever it is that’s on your plate at work or whatever. You’re thinking like, ‘I’ve got to take care of these kids and they’re the most important thing, because they’re the future.’”

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In his Gaslight days, Fallon's songs were populated with figures and images pulled from the pages of rock 'n' roll gospel; there were Marias, Bobby Jean and Sandy, Little Eden was waiting and there were southern accents on the radio — and that's just on the band's commercial breakthrough sophomore LP, 2008's "The '59 Sound."

More than a decade later the references have largely evaporated — the "Local Honey" track "Vincent" has a character named Jolene but, she says, "I hate that song" — making way for writing that is sparse and personal. Now his kids can be found in his lyrics, as he watches them color in their brand-new pajamas.

Fallon explained why he wasn't scared to discuss topics like his children in his new songs.

"I had already decided at that point that I was whittling it down: What’s the real feeling for this moment? And that was what I was feeling and I just had to put it out there because there’s no point in not," he said. "I was like, ‘If I’m feeling this way, I know somebody else has got to be feeling this way, too.’"

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Fallon and backing band The Howling Weather left home for a scheduled world tour in support of "Local Honey," kicking off Thursday, March 12, at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware.

The remainder of the tour, rescheduled in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, hits Fallon's hometown for shows at the Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre at the Count Basie Center for the Arts on June 15 and 16, 2021, in addition New York City engagements at Town Hall on May 1 and Webster Hall on May 2.

These days, Fallon's live show combines material from his three solo albums with the Gaslight canon and work from side projects Molly and the Zombies and The Horrible Crowes, in addition to covers. Given his profound artistic evolution over the years, how does he feel having work from all of these chapters of his life co-mingling on stage?

"I feel proud. I feel like I’ve done something well," he said. "And I look back and I go, ‘Alright, that feels good. I’m glad that I got that one,’ and that I’m able to sort of mix it up together.

"Because even when I play something that’s really old, I do it by myself on the piano or the guitar or whatever, and it sort of reminds me of just writing it and being by myself in my bedroom, figuring out these melodies, and then kind of the reward of being shocked by it sounding good to me. I still remember that, just being like, ‘Whoa, that sounds pretty good, I must have stole it but it sounds great.’ That’s a good feeling to have, being able to go out and have people receive it still."