“We’re all big coffee drinkers,” laughs Lewis.
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In 2020, the band also partnered with Full City Roosters in Dallas for their very own Dark Secret Coffee, a robust and nutty blend and follow up to the band’s first collaboration with the roasting company, a Texas Pecan coffee, released in 2019. “It just seemed like the least that we could do.” “We wanted to do something with it, and she’s playing on that song,” says Lewis. Recently re-releasing “ Got a Heart,” originally released on the band’s first EP Slaphead in 1989, the song was remixed and mastered by Chris “Frenchie” Smith in 2021 with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the band’s original bassist Lisa Umbarger, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. “When you’re a young person, you’re just grabbing whatever you think is what you want to do, so it’s actually 900 different things and then you cram them all into this one song.” “Those are honestly just really hard for me to listen to,” laughs Lewis. “I’m just waiting to get back together when we can just be loud and float ideas between each other.”ĭigging further back into their archives, the band recently found the very first two songs they ever recorded, which they may (or may not) release. “I’m always writing and I’ve got ideas but it’s way easier to write when I hang out with my guys and be super loud,” says Lewis. Slowly working on new music, a follow-up to the band’s seventh album The Lower Side of Uptown in 2017, there is no set date in the near future for a new album.
I just let it all out, and that’s a good thing.”
I’m glad I did.’ I’m glad I didn’t have any internal editor going back then. “I’m a different person now, but it’s interesting going over all the songs at home and refreshing over the past two years, getting ready to go on tour,” says Lewis, reflecting on Rubberneck now. Produced by Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf, Rubberneck introduced the world to the Toadies’s obscure, murkier alt-rock with the crashing “Mister Love,” the swagger of “Backslider” and swampier “I Come from the Water” and “Possum Kingdom.” It was another time, but one that still has a connection to frontman Vaden Todd Lewis. Rescheduling dates for 2021, the Toadies are picking up where they left off, now celebrating the 27th anniversary of Rubberneck, and getting back on the road for the first time since December 2019. When Rubberneck turned 25 in 2019, the Toadies were touring around the silver anniversary of their debut album before canceling the remainder of the tour when COVID hit.
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