Biblical of name and of beard, Israel Nash fits a kind of psychedelic frontiersman template almost too perfectly. The creation myth of this, his fourth album, is full of elemental interventions and manly responses: a home-made studio in a place called Dripping Springs; a cataclysmic flood, just as r...
Q&A: ISRAEL NASH
Can you tell us about the creek breaking and how it affected the studio and the album?
The entire state of Texas has been in drought for a number of years, but that’s not the case any longer. The day we were to start tracking, the 100-year flood rolled in. The first four days of our recording session were devoted to digging French drains, sandbagging and cleaning out the studio where a wet weather creek erupted from the flash flood and ripped through the studio. So that was the beginning of Silver Season. Those situations make an album and you can hear those things all over the record. But besides the music, and at a greater level even, it was a great showing of the dedication and teamwork that is this band. We are real brothers that are committed to each other in ways that I think is greater than any record or any song. It’s about people coming together and affecting each other in great ways. You can make it through a flood……
What does “I don’t live like the others/I see twice as many colors” mean?
It’s about seeing and knowing the world around you and the life in it with renewed sight. If that’s through your life being changed, your spirit being moved, psychedelics, or meditation, or all of them, it doesn’t really matter. It’s the result and it’s amazing.
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