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![]() ![]() ![]() My favorite part of the Georgia Blue recording process was having the opportunity to work with these very special artists, and I thank them: Amanda Shires, Brittney Spencer, Adia Victoria, Brandi Carlile, Julien Baker, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile, Steve Gorman, Peter Levin, and John Paul White. We have roots in blues and R&B, so we enlisted some brilliant artists to help us pull off songs by Precious Bryant, James Brown, and Gladys Knight. We’re a rock band, so we covered rock songs. I would love to cover Outkast and 2 Chainz, but I don’t think the finished product would be very good. The songs on this album are some of my favorite Georgia-related songs, but the tracklist is not meant to be comprehensive. For years, I’ve been looking for an excuse to record these songs with my band and some friends. I will admit my motivations were a bit selfish. On election day 2020, when I saw that there was a good chance the state of Georgia might go blue, I came up with an idea: to record an album of Georgia-related songs as a thank you to the state and donate the money to a Georgia based non-profit organization. ![]()
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