In September 2005, after violating a legal drug probation, Courtney Love was sentenced to a six-month program in a lock down rehabilitation center, which she was released after one half of the sentenced time and completed the other three months left in house arrest. During the period on the clinic, friend and producer Linda Perry visited Love and supported her by encouraging to write new songs, giving her a Martin acoustic guitar. The musician then borrowed a Panasonic compact cassette recorder and penned eight songs on rehab, among them "My Bedroom Walls", "The Depths of My Despair", "Sad But True" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean".[3] She declared about the new guitar-playing and songwriting stint: "My hand-eye coordination was so bad, I didn't even know chords anymore. It was like my fingers were frozen. And I wasn't allowed to make noise (in rehab). So I'd sit there and try to quietly write and struggle. I never thought I would work again. No one is ever going to talk to me. I'm never going to get a record deal. I'm never going to get on stage again. So, I just kept writing. This is a very personal album."[4] In November 2005, a few days after Love's release, she dubbed "The Rehab Tapes" demos with Perry and friend musician Billy Corgan. After having returned for the third time to her Nichiren Buddhist practice, Love allegedly started writing a song a day (according to her, the tune "Pacific Coast Highway" was written in a Los Angeles hotel on Christmas Eve, and "Never Go Hungry Again" was penned in the same day she got out of rehab). In a sequel, the trio put together a backup band to Love -- including guitarist Paul Thorn, bassist Paul Ill and drummer Nathan Washington -- and started recording the actual album, with Linda Perry in charge of production and Corgan as a guitarist and arranger. Anthony Rossomando (Dirty Pretty Things) and Ben Gordon (The Dead 60s) are also said to be present on the work as guest musicians. In a September 2006 interview, Love declared that the album will be mixed in London by Danton Supple, best known for his work with Coldplay, and was predicted to be released in February 2007. However, in January the singer stated that she had March 1 as a deadline for the release of the album. Otherwise, the work would only hit the stores in Winter, probably because of record company's issues. Love declared she "can't be a winter release", or else she would "go insane". In November, Love listed the songs that would not make the album: "Wildfire", "The Depths of My Despair", "Sad But True", "Good In Bed" (adding that they really tried to make the latest two work) and "My Bedroom Walls", though the lyrics of this one were used on another. The song "How Dirty Girls Get Clean" (which also was the working title of the album) was reworked and isn't known if it's going to be featured in the release. Later, she also confessed that she felt the album needed one more song for the work, which apparently had been written in January. Courtney describes the tune, which carries the working title of "Can You Make Me Cry", as being influenced by White Stripes, and she would be "fine-toothing" the lyrics and finishing it with Linda Perry on the following days. In early February, more song information leaked. According to Love, there are another five songs that could be on the album, named "I See Red", "Too Much Dope", "In My Gutters", "Samantha" and "Honey". Nevertheless, Love later stated that these songs were mostly demos, except "Samantha", which was the last song to be recorded in late March 2007 (over a year after the beginning of the sessions) and is being considered as a possible first single of the album. In the January 2009 issue of Elle Magazine, Courtney Love announced that the album would be released to download on her website on 1 January 2009, however the album failed to appear on that date. On 2 January Love's MySpace administrator posted a blog entry on the site explaining that with much regret the album had again been delayed, in part, due to technical sound issues at the studio where the album was recorded. [5] In a recent MySpace blog, Love revealed that David LaChapelle will direct the music videos for her forthcoming album. She states "i miss videos so happy Lachapelle is doing mine!".