Podcast 141: Singer-Songwriter Ethan Gruska

On this week’s podcast, we talk to Ethan Gruska (Belle Brigade)
about his 2017 solo album, Slowmotionary. As Gruska tells it, he
innocently recorded a handful of songs thinking they
would serve as a sort of business card to remind musician
pals that he could do session work for them. Little did he
know he'd eventually synch up with producer Tony Berg, record an
entire album steeped in ‘60s and ‘70s singer-songwriter sounds
and end up releasing it on Sire records. Gruska talks to us
about working with Berg on the project, Blake Mills (who plays
guitar on the album's second track) and what it was like to
co-write a song for John Legend ("Right by You" on Legend’s
Darkness and Light). Though Gruska says “the guitar is a series
of happy accidents for me,” he’s a stellar player. Watch our
video with him playing “Reoccurring Dream” on
fretboardjournal.com.


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