“We were on the road more than we were at home. We spent over a decade on the road,” he says. I was talking to my wife last night about when we were touring. Most of all, Lovelace admits how much he’s “taken touring and just being around people for granted. Out of the hardest times in history, creativity comes to the light, and people make beautiful things.”
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“I’ve talked to a lot of musician friends who’ve said, ‘Yeah, I’m learning how to use ProTools for the first time.’ And they’ve never wanted to do it, but now they know they have to. It’s definitely a different kind of world where you can be stuck at home but still get work done and find creativity,” says Lovelace. “We’re figuring out a lot of people can from their house and bedroom. Resulting from necessary isolation, a new appreciation for recorded music has unexpectedly emerged, and artists find themselves flexing their technical muscles for the very first time. But it definitely inspired me in a way to think about the world in a more complex way-and to know that it’s OK to be sad and cry.” I don’t know if it helped or made it worse. I really dug into Elliott Smith and Phoebe Bridgers and a bunch of really dark stuff.
I went through this really dark where I didn’t want to get out of bed. “The first part of quarantine was pretty depressing. Lovelace can certainly relate, as he too has undergone some of the darkest times of his life. With the songwriting I’ve been able to do, it has been healthy for me to do because I look back and think, ‘There’s a piece of that that came from a really dark time or feeling, and there’s a piece that came from the hope I found days later.’ There’s a real beauty to that. “A pandemic is not a good formula for me. Rinehart has been forced to discover healthier ways to manage his depression, as well. In normal times, when I go out on the road, I don’t need the audience to cheer in order for me to keep doing this and loving it,” reflects Rinehart on how he’s handling current times. You want to be healthy in a way where you don’t need affirmations for the things you do. “Every musician I’ve talk to is struggling with a balance. Many are finding ways to connect with their fans through various live streaming platforms, social media takeovers, and other inventive strategies. Fans will also be able to interact with the band in real time and ask questions.Īs we’ve witnessed over the last year, artists are adapting unlike ever before. But this endeavour will be much different. We did it a few times with four or five people over Zoom,” says Rinehart. They are also gearing up for All Dressed Up & Nowhere to Go, an interactive performance from their rehearsal space using virtual live audience technology-utilizing 250 television screens to transmit fans directly into the venue. Those sold-out shows are slated for January 21 and 22. The Pelham shows will be among the band’s first shows since lockdown last March. Luckily, we’ll spend a few weeks rehearsing for it, probably more than we have anything-mostly because we feel we’re a little rusty.” “It really comes down to interludes, intros, and jams. We are further along than we ever are,” says Rinehart with a laugh. “We’ll probably be ironing out the night before. Notorious procrastinators, the trio have yet to nail down their setlist (25 songs are currently in contention), but they hope to pepper in cuts from their latest record, 2020’s Out of Body, alongside long-standing fan favorites. For example, guests will arrive in staggered timeframes, be screened with temperature checks, and funnel off into their own pods for the show. The Caverns is one of many live venues strictly adhering to the State of Tennessee’s Tennessee Pledge, as well as CDC guidelines, in order to make sure such live events are as safe and healthy as possible. Our band has that southern, rural vibe, anyway.” “We had this idea of lighting up the wood and maybe having campfires. “We liked the idea of trying to do something outside that was safe,” offers lead vocalist Bear Rinehart over a recent phone call with American Songwriter. The Insiders Fan Club will get a chance to scoop pre-sale tickets on Wednesday (January 13). That will come with two socially distanced, outdoors concerts to be held March 13 and 14 at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee, tickets for which go on-sale this Friday (January 15) beginning 1 pm EST. 2 (now up for pre-order) is set to drop April 16-and it hasn’t even been recorded yet. “It seemed like a great idea to do it now when people are missing live music more than ever.” There are a lot of new songs we haven’t ever released in a live format,” he continues. “We always try to do different versions of the studio records.
Our fans gravitate towards the live versions of songs,” says Josh Lovelace. Since the release of 2015’s Live from the Woods, NEEDTOBREATHE imagined they’d record a follow-up eventually.
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