After the set on the big stage we went over to do a live radio broadcast and started playing the song you can check out here...

The crazy part is after the intro to the song you can hear some music starting in the background and see Grundy and Me look to our right... on an adjacent stage the rap group Cyprus Hill was starting their set and it was f**king LOUD!  You can see us looking at each other and laughing at the insanity of it... us with 3 acoustic guitars and MEGA BASS on all frequencies in the background... it was a great day!

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Well after 2 years of sneaking in new ...or should I say new / old material into my solo shows I've finally carved out some time to return to Nashville to start recording a new solo album.  I have to say that after "1000 Miles of Life" I've got the bug and I got it bad !  I just love working down here among such gifted and talented musicans and in a community that lives and breaths music.

The theme of this recording is " the songs I loved when I was a kid " ... by that I mean stuff by Chuck Berry, Elvis, Curtis Mayfield, Ray Charles, Mississippi John Hurt and more... there will of course be a few origninal squeezed in there or I wouldn't feel right.  One of the originals will be a nice surprise for all you hard core H&O fans.

The band, as usual, is stellar.  I'm co - producing this with Big Mike Henderson, a legend among hard core blues fans and currently playing with the Steel Drivers ( one of my favorite bands ).  Mike is one of the baddest slide guitar players on the planet, his roots are deep and his style is completly unique. On drums we have the very funky John Gardiner, on bass, sessions star, Michael Rhodes ( who some have described as the T Bone of Nashville and I don't think he would mind ) and on upright bass, Dennis Crouch, who played on the Grammy winning Robert Plant and Allison Krauss' "Rasing Sand"  album as well as with  Elvis Costello and Johnny Cash.  In between touring with his own band and pretty much everybody else...the legendary  mandolin and fiddle maestro, Sam Bush was nice enough to come down and share his dynamic playing and vibe.  Carving some time out of his busy schedual, playing with Elvis Costello and Allison Krauss and Union station is the amazing Jerry Douglas the undisputed master of the dobro and lap steel. In addition, Peter Huttlinger, who has been playing with me live lately, brings his hot fingerpicking style to the mix.

Believe it on not, I get to play a litte as well... its a dream come true to be surrounded by these guys who just make recording such a joy.  Well that's it for now we're just getting started and will have some updates for you at the end of the week.   ~J.O. 

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