![]() He grew up jamming in a highly musical family. ![]() ![]() No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. So I've been brought up in a culture where the music is an escape for everyone. "It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home. "In New Orleans, we celebrate everything," he says. It's an approach that sounds an awful lot like pandering to the masses, but to Andrews, it's rooted in decades of tradition. But as the border-blind bandleader throws more ingredients into the mix, his songs pose an inherent question: when are you making gumbo, and when are you making mud?Īndrews says he's busy wrestling another aesthetic conundrum: he's perpetually searching for new ways to make audiences feel good. ![]() The 10-song disc was produced by R&B singer Raphael Saadiq, frequently evokes Andrews's rock hero, Lenny Kravitz, and includes a collaboration with New Orleans funk idols the Meters, who reunited at Andrews' request. He sounds just as comfortable on his new album, Say That to Say This. ![]()
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