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You recorded two LPs during the pandemic. Was it hard to stay still for so long?
I don’t really usually write about myself, but I wrote a song a few years ago [“That Black Bat Licorice”] about a hospital, a prison, an asylum, any place where I could lay on a cot and clear my vision and clear my head. I push myself so hard that sometimes I would find myself in the middle of a 16-hour day. I might fantasize about breaking my leg, that way I’m forced to lay in a hospital bed and forced to take a break and reevaluate what I’m working on.
I got to work on furniture again [during the pandemic], and it cleared my head. I didn’t write a song for eight months. Creatively, that took me to a place I had missed.I started writing a lot of songs, and they were in all different directions: some incredibly heavy; almost some like speed metal; some sounded so gentle. I ended up with 20, 25 songs. People don’t respond well to double albums these days.
I heard that Cab Calloway song on the radio in the kitchen one day, and I thought, “I love that song; it’s just so powerful.” So I sampled it, then played a drumbeat that seemed to go along with it. Then I grabbed a bass and I wrote a bass line for that drumbeat, and on and on it went. Pretty soon, I thought, “Man, this is so interesting.
Five minutes later, he sent me back his own scatting on top of it. I love synthesizing different moments, different areas of music, different time periods. The best part about it is everybody I played it to kept thinking that Cab Calloway was me. I thought, “Do I actually sound like that?” So that was bizarre.The genre has been done by thousands and thousands of artists, and some of the people who were the greatest to ever do it did their thing long ago.
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