The forefather of jamgrass has done it again. Sam Bush for many years has lead the way in pioneering a new level of bluegrass influenced music. Laps in Seven finds him coloring outside the lines once again.
Accompanied by the entirety of the Boston Pops, the Kentucky-bred powerhouse tore through a set of tunes that stretched from all ends of their catalog and incorporated the classical orchestra into their pieces with a compositional competence that is rare in the mainstream musical community today.
The next disc from Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, will feature a long list of guest appearanceces from the likes of Jack Johnson and Ben Harper to Marc Broussard and Blackalicious.
Due Aug. 1 on Johnson’s Brushfire label, “G. Love’s Lemonade” also features Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo, Donovan Frankenreiter, Tristan Prettyman and keyboardist Steve Molitz from jamband Particle.
“Except for one song, it’s straight hip-hop grooves,” Dutton tells Billboard.com. Of the cameo-packed approach, he says, “It was something I did want to do, but it wasn’t supposed to happen now. It just happened out of the blue, so I just let it go.”
“G. Love’s Lemonade” features the latest in a long line of collaborations with Johnson. Remembering the first time he heard the Hawaiian singer/songwriter perform, Dutton says, “We went for a surf, and we went back to this little bungalow I was staying at in Topanga Canyon, and we were just trading songs, and he played a lot of songs that ended up being on his first record [‘Brushfire Fairytales’]. I was thinking, ‘There’s something going on here. This is the shit.'”
Dutton appeared on Johnson’s “Curious George” soundtrack last year, and Johnson returns the favor on the “Lemonade” track “Rainbow.” “We’re family,” says Dutton. The new album’s first single, “Hot Cooking,” can be downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. A video was recently shot by Emmett Malloy.
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Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was arrested in Stockholm early this morning (June 27) after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg outside his hotel, police said.
Rose, who performed in the Swedish capital last night, was being held on suspicion of attacking and threatening the guard, as well as causing damage to the Berns Hotel where the alleged scuffle took place, police spokeswoman Towe Hagg said.
Hagg said Rose was intoxicated during the confrontation, which broke out around 8 a.m., and would face questioning after he sobers up. “He was deemed too intoxicated to be questioned right away,” she said. A prosecutor will then decide whether to press charges against him, Hagg said.
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More than five months after his arrest, trend-setting KCRW (the eclectic community service radio station in Santa Monica) host Chris Douridas has been charged with drug possession, but faces no prosecution for an alleged sex crime.
In January, Douridas was taken into custody by police outside a Santa Monica nightclub after eye witnesses reported that the 43-year old had slipped a substance into a teenager
