10 minutes backstage with Orville Peck at the Hollywood Bowl

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Set us as preferred Orville Peck brought his moving and carefully crafted new album, “Mule,” to the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night.One of the year’s best country LPs so far, “Mule” charts the masked singer-songwriter’s sobriety journey after he hit a low point in 2023; the concert mixed songs from the album with Peck’s oldies, an appearance by his friend Noah Cyrus and a handful of covers, including a tender rendition of the late Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” Before the show, we sat down with Peck in his dressing room for a chat.Mikael Wood: Your new album is out today, and tonight you’re playing the Hollywood Bowl.

Which of your childhood nemeses do you wish could see you now?I’ve got two parts of my personality.There’s one part where I’m like, none of them — I don’t want to give it any air.

Then there’s another part of me that has a 3,000-person Rolodex in my head because I’m petty sometimes.Rebecca Castillo: Let’s name names.Let’s do it — get my phone.Wood: The video for your song “Already Gone” has you dancing in a rehab.Was that how you envisioned the rehab experience?I take a little artistic license.

I wouldn’t say I was dancing down the hallways, but I was climbing up the walls for sure.I never anticipated I would be someone that would go to rehab.

Even when I was there, I was sort of under this false egotistical pretense that I didn’t really belong there — that everyone else was really sick and I just had a bit of a problem.So it took a lot of breaking down these defenses and addict ways of thinking that told me I was unique or special.

I didn’t know they were gonna knock at your door every 20 minutes.I didn’t know know that you weren’t allowed to make phone calls.

I was pretty shocked by a lot of it — I went there in a haze.Castillo: Were ther...