G. Love Gets The Blues With The Avett Brothers
. Recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC, and produced by The Avett Brothers. After a chance meeting in Boston last fall, G. Love and The Avett Brothers forged a friendship and bonded over their love of back road blues. After performing together onstage and discovering their shared musical heritage, G. Love invited Scott and Seth Avett to not only produce his new album, but perform on it as well. The result is Fixin' To Die, a collection of G. Love originals, rearranged traditionals, and a classic cover, many simmering for over a decade, all sharing a common goal: to strip away all pretense and capture the original spirit and sound G. Love has cultivated over his entire career but never fully embraced until now. From the ragged jangle of its opener "Milk & Sugar" and floorboard stomp of Bukka White's "Fixin' To Die," over the loping lilt of "Home" and longing for "Katie Miss," through the greasy fried "Get Goin'" and moonshine reverb of "Heaven," to the hip shake hootenanny in Paul Simon's infamous kiss off "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," G. Love and The Avetts deliver a life lesson in how to find a song's sweet spot. "It was an emotional recording session and I was truly blown away by the level of focus, care and passion Scott & Seth brought to it. It was a tremendously positive and encouraging experience. This is the most inspired I've ever felt making a record," G. Love said. As Scott Avett says, "There's a little bit of this record on all the previous G. Love records, you just had to look for it. This is the record we all knew he should make and he could make, but again, he had to open himself to the core to make it. That's the difference." G. Love will tour the U.S. extensively in support of Fixin' To Die in 2011. Preview and Purchase G. Love CDs |
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