Dustbowl Revival - Busted
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Busted’ - Dustbowl Revival
Based in Venice, California and with a perfect blend of Soul, Funk, Roots-Rock, Dustbowl Revival have recently been voted ‘Best Live Band in LA’ by LA Weekly. As a great introduction to their music our track today is the powerful ‘Busted’ taken from their 2017 self-titled album. If you would like to see them live in London, they are playing at Nells tonight.
Dustbowl Revival has always been about pushing the boundaries of what American roots music can be. In many ways, they could have continued creating joyful, booty-shaking songs and cut-to-heart folk-rock ballads that lift up their transcendent live shows and mining new energetic material from the place where folk music, funk and soul meet.
But the band’s newest album,’ Is It You, Is It Me’, set for release on January 31st via their own Medium Expectations label and Nashville’s Thirty Tigers, is something different entirely. Produced by Sam Kassirer [Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter, David Ramirez] and engineered by Brian Joseph [Bon Iver, Local Natives, Sufjan Stevens], it represents the latest stage in a band that never stops evolving and refuses to stand still.
After celebrating over a decade of sonic adventuring, playing thousands of shows together in ten countries and counting, and collecting a devoted and growing fanbase coast-to-coast, the six core members -- founder Z. Lupetin, Liz Beebe, Josh Heffernan, Matt Rubin, Ulf Bjorlin and Connor Vance knew they had to create something bigger.
The 13 new songs were not road-tested and tired out by the time they made it to the recording studio: in fact Kassirer inspired the band to create the album in a two-week flash of intense creativity, with many of the songs layered and composed day-by-day in the studio. Acting like a nimble rock orchestra, each member played multiple instruments, and the group brought in new musicians on symphonic brass, and local friends to sing as a spur-of-the-moment choir.
Photo credit: Shervin Lainez