Maryland rockers CLUTCH have released reworked version of their song “Spacegrass”. The track, along with CLUTCH’s previously issued renditions of the Willie Dixon 1950s classic “Evil” (later recorded by CACTUS), ZZ TOP’s “Precious And Grace” and CREEDE…
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Maryland rockers
CLUTCH have released reworked version of their song
"Spacegrass". The track, along with
CLUTCH's previously issued renditions of the
Willie Dixon 1950s classic
"Evil" (later recorded by
CACTUS),
ZZ TOP's
"Precious And Grace" and
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL's
"Fortunate Son", as well as a reworked version of
"Electric Worry", comprise a collection of newly recorded songs,
"Weathermaker Vault Series".
The original version of
"Spacegrass" appeared on
CLUTCH's second, self-titled album, which was released in May 1995 via
East West Records, a now defunct sub-label of
Warner Music Group.
CLUTCH drummer
Jean-Paul Gaster told
Cory Blose of
TotalRock Radio's
"The Valley" about
"Weathermaker Vault Series": "We got into the studio [in early 2019]. After we finished another U.S. tour, we jumped in the studio and we recorded a selection of songs. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a full album. But the idea is just to release a few things. And these will be completely just digital releases as well. We're sort of experimenting with that format — just releasing stuff for streaming purposes. And we'll see how that goes."
He continued: "It was fun to get in the studio, and we picked some songs that sort of all meant something to us in different ways. We also re-recorded a few
CLUTCH classic songs, so those will be coming out as well. I suppose maybe in some ways it's sort of just a way to tide us over until we really get the juices flowing to record another album."
Gaster said that
CLUTCH's insistence on recording and releasing new music comes from a pure place.
"As we all know, there's not a tremendous amount of money to be made in releasing albums anymore, so you have to do it because you wanna do it," he said. "And also too, it just gives us an opportunity to play some new stuff when we get out there on the road and play shows. We do not wanna be a band that gets up there and just plays the hits and that would be the end of it. This is not a nostalgia thing for us. For us, this is still very much a live working rock band. We have the desire to be creative and to play music, so we try to foster that in whatever way we can."
He added: "I can say a scenario where we'll release this collection of singles and maybe a few more, and then eventually we might put these all on a vinyl record and put them out.
CLUTCH's latest album,
"Book Of Bad Decisions", was released in September 2018. The record sold 26,000 copies in America during its first week of availability, giving the group its third consecutive Top 20 album on the Billboard 200.
"Book Of Bad Decisions" was recorded was completed at
Sputnik Sound studio in Nashville, Tennessee with producer
Vance Powell.
