Fixin' to Die

VINYL FORMAT. Fixin' to Die is the new G. Love album, produced by Seth and Scott Avett. Like a classic novel it all starts at a chance meeting one rainy, fall night in Boston, when fellow torchbearers of new roots Americana, Seth and Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers, invite Garret Dutton aka G. Love onto their tour bus after a gig to share their love of back road blues. This mutual affinity leads to G. Love sharing the stage with The Avett Brothers at a summer music festival both are playing. The collaboration, sounding so natural and right, deepens - so much so that eventually G. Love asks Scott and Seth Avett to not only play on his new record, he asks them to produce it as well. Inspired by this shared musical heritage, the result is Fixin' to Die, a collection of rearranged traditionals, a classic cover, and a slew of G. Love originals, 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. On his fourth Brushfire release, G. Love has left the hip-hop blues, a genre he has helped define, if for only a moment, to make arguably his most sincere and candid record to date. Produced and engineered in the inspiring sanctuary of Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, the session's underlying pulse is unabashedly 100% pure and genuine country blues. 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 "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover," G. Love and The Averts deliver a life lesson in how to find a song's sweet spot.